CROWN LEASES.
FEW IN DEPARTMENT'S HANDS. Although the Lands Department at Christchurch controls tho leases of about 6000 farm properties, it has no more than half a dozen of them at present on its hands. The Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr W. Stewart) said yesterday that during the past two years the Department had never had more than a dozen of theso properties available for sale. The fact that the Department had so few properties on its books, said Mr Stewart, did not mean that properties were not changing hands. Most often they changed hands by the direction of the' mortgagees and not by abandonment to the Crown. All transfers went through the Department, but there was no discrimination between straighiout transfers and transfers made under pressure. Whatever tho reason for them, there was a steady number of transfers throughout the year.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 20 August 1932, Page 14
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