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Water for irrigation purposes much needed in Otago, 15. Government should encourage rabbit-exporting, 2. Tree-planting should be encouraged in Otago, 2. Pomahaka Estate too highly valued —rents to be reduced, 4. Grassing of pastoral runs should be encouraged by Government, 13. Mining reserves should be let on occupation leases, 1. Runs in Otago not very suitable for subdivision, 3. All applicants should be examined by Land Board, 2. There should be no examination of applicants by Land Board, 1. Married women should be allowed to hold as much land as single women, 1. Government should acquire the water-races in Otago, 1. Land Board should have power to alter rents, 2. Crown tenants should be exempt from taxation, 1. There should be no exemption from taxation, 2. Endowments in Otago— Power to acquire freehold of endowments should not be given, 7. Power to acquire freehold might be allowed, 2. School Commissioners' leases should be more liberal, 2. Endowments should be administered by Land Board, 2. Endowments should not be administered by Land Board, 1. Endowments should be leased with revaluation clause, 1. High-school endowments are too highly rented, 1. Southland District. Occupation of witnesses — Members of local bodies, Land Boards, Ac, 7. Village settlers, fruit-growers, market-gardeners, Ac, 4. Farmers, 83. Civil servants, 5. Miners, 7. Sawmillers, 4. Tradesmen, 5. Journalists, solicitors, Ac, 2. Land agents, merchants, Ac, 3. School Commissioners and officers, 1. (1.) Constitution of Land Boards: Favour nominative system as at present, 17. Greater discretionary powers should be given the Land Boards, 7. Favour nominative system, but Crown tenants should be represented, 4. Miners should be represented on Land Boards, 1. Appeal Court should be set up, 3. Elective system impracticable, 2. Boards should be partially elective in order to represent Crown tenants, 3. Advocate elective system, 2. (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 desirable: Favour option of purchase as a desirable sentiment and in the interests of settlement, 26. Favour option of purchase for financial reasons, and security of tenure, Ac, 19. Option should be given subject to stringent improvement conditions, 4. Option of purchase should be given at original valuation, 5. Option should be given in the case of ordinary Crown lands to encourage settlement, but not under the Land for Settlements Act, 1. Favour deferred-payment system, 10. Favour occupation-with-right-of-purchase system, 4. Option of purchase should be given at revaluation, 1. Favour leasehold because capital available, 11. Favour lease-in-perpetuity tenure, 6. Mining districts occupation licenses should be changed to lease in perpetuity, 6. Village-homestead system should be abolished because holdings too small, 1. Miners should compensate farmers for loss of land, 5. Land-tenures should conserve mining rights, 4. Favour periodical revaluation, 5. Object to revaluation, 11. Object to revaluation except in cases where rents too high, 2. Pastoral licensees should be given longer tenures, 3. (3.) NVhether Crown tenants labour under restrictions inimical to their well-being, and unnecessary in the interests of the.State: Cropping regulations should be modified and in discretion of Land Board, 4. Cropping regulations should be abolished, 2. Cropping restrictions necessary, 1. Crown tenants in fear of Noxious Weeds Act, as too expensive to clear land, 4. Runholders should be allowed to cultivate for winter feed, 7. Runholders should be given fair valuation for improvements and surface-sowing, 7.

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