PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 15 July 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

' TOITEO PRES3 'ASSOCIATION. 1» the House yesterday the Wellington Harbor Board and Corporation Land.Aqt' was, after aj very"• long.diaiSuissioti,'read'a ( third time, and passed. The Ashburton County Couuoil Empowering Bill was read a third time and passed.;'; The Payment of Members Bill, fixing the amount at £2lO. per annum was -brought" in by a.message, from the Governor. . •' : The debate was resumed by Mr Sutton (on the Land Bill). He condemned the system the settlement of poor inexperienced people on the land, and said the deferred .payments system had been a suocbsb.- The/arrears due would new be recovered, He did not attribute the failure Id the auction system, and he did not think those who had bought at

KiSjli-iii -victte at all entitled 't'o-;Vefie% '"f&i unfeit wa|fldnfinetl to !rhe^asii)|lifouldnever'ina'we^ant-the tenants would beun(ib!e Vlive; and he urged that;land shdlild 'be eold-foV caeh, and that it was better for the buyer to borrow the 'money : thaii[.Jiecomo a '.State tenant. He wished to see.all the land of the colony, whether Crown or Native, administered by. the Waste Lands Beard. >. Mr J. W. Thompson did. not think the leiising proposals-bad been,pell considered. I The proposed relief,lo.deferred, payment settlers was altogether insufficient, and no: j, inducement was offered him to come under- | th'e'leaae'syatem. _ The auotion aales had. I been the cause of the partial failure of tho : deferred payment aystem,- i-Pastoral lands. 1 | should be cut up into smaller' areas 'than [proposed.

' Mr Moss was opposed to the leasing proposhls, and did not consider the Bill as ■]ib'eral..as' the .'existing .!, ( ' ..'.Mr lysisalso oppoae.dthe;Bill'andi.es; pecia'ly the leasing clatises. He advocated ,|V system of village,-settlement.' Lindan' 'deferred payment shniild be sold by ballot. He-,was s.u.re. the Bill, if passed,,would work.i,njuriously,andliehopddit would be withdrawn. C i: 1 :.; .

: JoY()K .also condemed the Bill as .rendering the land laws.nipre cpmplex and Jess ljper/il. ..Underthe...leasing,proposals moil would take, al.ljthey. qould put. of the land for a few.years, and then throw up .their lenses., He advocated seliina land at a j single-,-upset price by' ballot^and elective land ( hoards.'- -'■"■" Sir •'JoHV'i Hail gave- Mr Rollestoh credit for the beH intentions, and earnest desire for. 1 -.liberalism, and to well the land laws, but lie regretted' lie could not. support this bill. The', leasing system Would tend to disoourage settlement.. . The tenants /...would. .not their 'Ms; ha they woulcl by: no; be i'u'qreising"the rent they would have.',to ; pay To secure an extension of tenure. " Nine-. ..tenths of the people oameVhere-'tb ' Mctire a piece of land of-thdr own, :iind' ,would not bp. i content with any lease, this was 'Slrofrif-by.the failure to-let^the education proposals of the bill -would'give any real elief-to'deferred payment'setflers, he did ndt think that the ballot was preferable to auction.' He was sorry to oppose any measure of i bis late, icolleagues, but this bill was ; dangeri}Ußj and'. unworkable, and although' lie should not', vote against its second reading, he hoped it would' not pass in anything-like its present form. •, ■ W. 1 C , Buchanan advocated - the' i!jionitig:iip'of Undbymeafis of' roads,add: ihen Selling .it for cash," The 'deferred '■payMent systSm.had failed,'as ariy|vgtein of forqing: Sptilement'by men witboiitr mptiey pf experience must fail. The, Bill would lead to land gambling and he altogether opposed the leasing clauses, except for mining j districts. He advocated -eleet^d;land-boards, ... .■■ "• -"i;. •; .Mr J; ;MgEEN?fE condemned-the Bill as impracticable. The provisions for ; the ; •relief of deferred payment settlers would ■not nieet the case at all.: • He advocated •tho ballot system and elected land boards. • Mr 'Monko! his approval "of the'prbpusals regarding auriferous lands, BiJt could -noi support the leasing proposals, ' • . Mr-PYKB moved the ..adjournment of ■the-' debate, and' at' 12.10 tho li'oubo adjourned till Monday;at 7 30.