PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 218, 12 September 1907, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

'. . - .-•-" ..-;... i; „,__.■-:'.-- '"_" C HOUSE 1)F REPRESENTATIVES. ' U 6 ' Td.Fapk-P arllamentary Ke P° rter -V ll- "'"' '''-jffljtfSGTOZ, Wednesday. % LAND TITLES. IS The Lands Committee, to whom was 1 ' loathe petition of Thos. and Au- i I J«stsßerf of Auckland, for recon-. V-'&f reported: "That the petition !iSS4the Government for fayI -rihle consideration, with a reeommen'fXtat the deficiency be made up in "'' i„r land" This petition opened up [ of the liability of the Stat., : "'' : --7t,.k_ffood the deficiencies in areas of ■V.-ffSSed under Crown titles many j R. McNab said that under , 'tteoU titles there were no sections to- | £J lH_C_ would show, on re-survey the ■•" L area that they were supposed to , 3 * <_;„ If Parliament decided that it j |IS%ft« State title to these old . that never had such a title as- ; S-tion-wth them, and for wh.ch the ! E_SbM been paying large sums of tjS" convert into State titles, then Snse would, once it decided to give { ■ .: tow to find a great amount j > I h ™nnev for -the purpose. I \*£Smij they had had a state- .'- ' "ii-on. the Minister of Lands, that a igSSrt did not carry with it any < Grantee that the section would con- - 1 £hI the number of acres mentioned In 1 1 Weed. That was not the idea or the > It who regarded a Crown grant as > Sas a land transfer title. If it was : f o r._.nitwas the duty of Parliament to-zake it so. There should be no neces- > "'■dr.'of a niarantee in connection with ' fan "rants, in which there should be I i, possibility of mistakes, the same as 2g was with land transfer titles. , ■■' Tier should deal with this matter by , __th-S a certain amount of money on « I L Estimates to compensate the sett--3 fna "-.eral discussion on the petition ! ( itTft-.ur-ed that the petitioner who had : phased originally 706 acres from the , • Crown only got 679 acres, and that he ; ■ should be compensated for land which j ' wontf-lly was never given to him. • $ -towns, this it was contended that if < 2e State paid compensation in the case, " „ would have to find millions of money i' , ijto meet all similar clahns. | ! ; The Hon. T. Y. Duncan, chairman of j the Lands Committee, said that at the time this land was first taken up in Auckland and other places, there was no , nehthiog accuracy in surveys, and j no one expected it. The settlers got a ! '' surveyor of their own and paid him, '- jeceiving a refund, so that in many cases E , the Government did not know anything ' ti (bout it. The report was referred to the Government for favourable consideration. QUESTIONS. ... The remainder of the afternoon sit/r ting was devoted to -io discussion of Minister-.' Teplies to members' questions. 1