THE LAND ACT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 March 1913, Page 7

THE LAND ACT.

A QUESTION OF RESIDENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press A ssociaUon.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. What wais claimed to he a typical case of the fnilnt'o of a (.bown settlor to reside on his holding under the Land for Settlement Act, op.rne before the Land Board' to-day. The holder attended the -iweting, applied for exemption in order that he could hold his land ami yet -reside in Masterton. His holding was eighteen miles from Masterton. I nit- he had a family of daughters, who found oeritipniions in Mo-st-erion, which they conkl not do if they were compelled to wide "n the holding I He went to t-ho land three times a week. The Comit'3(?-sir>nfr pointed <mt that n man. must; eo-ntiiHi'nisly -on. Ins-, section, otherwise it would ho forfeited. anolicant point-"*! that he derived his sole source of income from the srr-tr'on, and it wai* ihe only occupation he had. A .ni'-Mnli" 1 '- of the "R' ,r,v -1 •'•ostified to 'lm f'»f-t that the applicant was an iif. sfttl' 1- ". !>vr) tli» oriinion il«c pxnvps««vl tb*+ 'f the Act onld be relaxed th« Tl-.-'sml <ret hot - fe«- and fewer M"iecnlatoi*s, oflip- f'jvnji'-fy] f.ljo pron' I '' nb-ierva""" of the "t lioh-pvoi- miich ml edit <ith +b-«> nnlib'^Tit: e.-tJ>«."'ri«'i nn undesirable preivrinbl b">- cpt. ini. Tb« "Roo-vi to furthrr con--ider -tlim of.m in committee.