0.—48.

Freehold preferred, under deferred-payment system, 3. Lease in perpetuity, without option of freehold, 2. Lease in perpetuity, without revaluation, 1. Small-grazing-run lease not satisfactory, 3. Pastoral lease should be for longer term, with securer tenure, to enable to improve and grass land, 1. (3.) Whether Crown tenants labour under restrictions inimical to their well-being, and unnecessary to interests of State: Present conditions satisfactory, 2. Present conditions not satisfactory, 1. (4.) Whether the residential conditions now existing are too exacting, and require relaxing, and, if so, in what direction: Conditions should be relaxed in certain cases, 2. Board should have discretionary power to relax conditions, 1. Residential conditions to be enforced in all cases, 5. (5.) If alterations are necessary in law regarding tenure, &c.: No opinions given. (6.) If it is expedient that the homestead privileges be reintroduced. No opinions given. (7.) As to the working of the present ballot system and application for land: Present system unsatisfactory, 2. (8.) Area and amount of loading for roads, how expended, Arc. : Present system satisfactory, 1. Present system unsatisfactory, 10. (9.) Value of land now leased from Crown when so leased, and at last valuation : Value of leaseholds has increased, 1. Unearned increment of leaseholds belongs to State, 2. (10.) Whether Crown tenants are placed at disadvantage in borrowing privately or from Advances to Settlers Office: Present system of advances from Advances to Settlers Office satisfactory, 1. Present system satisfactory, but the margin of advances should be increased, 2. System unsatisfactory—too much delay, 8. (11.) Condition and position of Crown tenants: Present position satisfactory, 7. Land-for-settlements policy a great success, 1. (13.) As to aggregation of estates, and maximum area that should be held by settlers under various classes, Arc.: Area a man can hold should be limited, 1. Area a man can hold should be unlimited, 1. Taranaki District. Occupation of witnesses— Farmers, 51. -Civil servants, 3. Storekeepers, tradesmen, Arc, 3. County Engineer, 1. Including members local bodies, Land Boards, Arc, 5. (1.) The constitution of Land Boards: In favour of nominative system as at present, 16. Nominative system, but Crown tenants should be represented, 4. Advocate partly elective Boards, 7. Favour elective system, 3. Land Boards should have greater discretionary powers, 5. Number of members of Land Board should be increased, 3. (2.) The tenures upon which lands may be obtained and occupied, and whether in the interests of the colony any alteration of the law is necessary: Favour freehold for financial reasons, and security of tenure, 25. Favour freehold as a desirable sentiment, and in interests of settlement, 13. Advocate deferred-pajmient system, 13. Favour occupation-with-right-of-purchase system, 10. Advocate leasehold tenure, 10. ■ Object to revaluation, 18. Favour periodical revaluation, 3.

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