LAND TENURE.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9430, 30 May 1896, Page 7

LAND TENURE.

(PRBBB ABSOOTAVIOK TBLBOBAH.) GISBOBNE, May 2ft . r. A deputation of holders of small grazing runs waited on. the Hon.], J. Carroll ffai* afternooa with reference to (he proposed taxing and rating of email grazing tuoe. They urged that the rating #f the rune would be a gross itijustice to them and a direct iafriDgemeut of the terma uodeif wbioh they i \ were induced to take ■up their le*M*. If -• •• raos were rated as freehold property they •hoold have the privilege of making them . H( freehold or elee new leases in perpetuity •honld be ieened to them »b the present) rentale. Mr Carroll- expressed himself, to sympathy, with the. deputation. Hβ reoognised that to induce people to take op this land the terms bad been made very easy. He was not »nre whether, they could Dβ' \ allowed freehold o? an extension of the leases, bub promised to lay their oaee before , the Aftnisterof Lands, ' . --.;■' The Fair Bent BUI was then discussed. The deputation i»ked for an assurance that it would not apply to Crown tenants* Mt Carroll replied that he thought the principle would be confined to Crown tenant* only, those who were not Crown tenant* would resist the principle, and be thought ; the opinion of the Honae was in the direc* ■• tioo of the Act oonfioed.to Orow» tenants. The deputation said they, conaidered this Vo be very unfair, as experience showed that very little Government manes wan spent to improve their properties, And it had been the aettleca by their rates who bad made all tb«> improvemente. Mr. , Carroll promieed to fey their representations '; before the Minuter ot Lands. ! t .