e.—4b.

(4.) Whether the residential conditions now existing are too exacting, and require relaxing, and, if so, in what direction: Compulsory, except in discretion of Land Boards where no roads, schools, Ac, 3. Residence should be compulsory, 2. Residence conditions should be modified where improvements effected, 2: (5.) Also if alterations and variations are necessary in the law regarding tenure and occupation, owing to the varying conditions existing in respect of the climate and land-configura-tion in the several parts of the colony: Unnecessary, 2. Land districts should be considered separately, 1. (6.) Also whether it is expedient that the homestead privileges, as indicated in the Appendix to "The Land Act, 1885," should be reintroduced: Might be applied to Stewart Island with modifications, 5. Should be applied to homesteads on pastoral runs, 1. Should be applied to very poor lands of the colony, 1. Should not be reintroduced, 1. (7.) As to the working of the present ballot system, and the dealing with applications for land: Approve of system, 9. Second ballot and grouping should be abolished, 5. Women should have same privileges as men, 1. Preference should be given to unsuccessful applicants at former ballots, 3. Should be limitation to two years between successful applications, ]. Condemn auction system as liable to raise rentals too high, and ballot should be applied to all Crown lands, 5. (8.) The area of lands loaded for roads, the amount of such loading, the amount expended on roads in or giving access to lands loaded, whether good faith has been kept in regard to them, and as to the amount borrowed, spent, and available: Good faith has been kept, 1. Local bodies should expend loading, 2. Approves of system, 1. Condemn system, and roading should be made out of Consolidated Fund, 2. Loading not expended to advantage, 4. Loading should not go on for 999 years, 3. Loading too heavy, 1. Roads should be formed before lands opened, 2. (9.) To ascertain the value of the land now leased from the Crown at the time the land was so leased, and the valuation of the land at its last valuation : No increase in values, 1. General increase owing to progress of settlement, Ac, on good lands, 8. Increment belongs to settler, 5. Method of valuing unsatisfactory, 5. (10.) Whether lessees of the Crown are placed at a disadvantage in borrowing privately or from the Advances to Settlers Office: Approve of system, 3. Disadvantages exist in obtaining loans on leasehold owing to small valuations, delays, Ac, 9. Advances should be limited to £500, 1. - Advances to Settlers Department should lend up to a larger percentage on improvements on leaseholds, 9. No disadvantages, 3. Advances should be made during first year, 2. (11.) To ascertain the condition and position of those of our colonists holding and occupying the lands of the State under the several tenures now obtaining: General prosperity in district, 3. Improved-farm settlements a partial failure, 2. Land-for-settlements policy a success, 9. No market, Stewart Island, 1. Rents too high—Merrivale, 4; Beaumont, 3; Otau, 3. Improved-farm holdings too small, 4. No schools, 2. (13.) To investigate and report as to tha aggregation of estates, large and small, the maximum area which should be held under the several classes, and if in certain districts variations are advisable: ■ Aggregation of small holdings, but no danger of large aggregation, 7. No aggregation, 7. Area of freehold should be limited, 7. Graduation tax should be increased to prevent aggregation, 1.

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