IMPORTANT DECISION.
THE LAND ACT. The Herald's correspondent wiring from Wellington on -Saturday You are already informed of the inquiry of the Wellington Land Board into tlio circumstances of selections of laud mode by members of the Pharazyn family. The plea of the defendants was that there was nothing in the Act to prevent parties taking up land on behalf of children. The Wellington Board this morning gave a very important decision in this case as follows :—"The Board Hncl there is nothing in the Land Act, 1885, or its amendments, which forbids or excludes a father from purchasing or improving land for the benefit of his children or other relations, if it is not done with the ulterior vi3W of getting such holdings transferred to himself, which has not, in the cases uuder consider ition, been shown or imputed ; the Board therefore do not propose to take any further action in the matter, beyond forwarding a copy of the evidence taken to the Minister in charge of the land administration, pointing out that five members of one family have, without contravening any of the provisions of the Land Board Act, obtained 8200 acres in one block of pastoral country."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3089, 3 May 1892, Page 2
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200IMPORTANT DECISION. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3089, 3 May 1892, Page 2
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