SMALL FARMS BILL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20789, 24 February 1933, Page 17

SMALL FARMS BILL.

MEASURE BEFORE UPPER HOUSE. PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS. (fIIMS ASSOCIATION TELSa&A«.) WELLINGTON, February --iS. The Legislative Council met at 'J.3O p.mThe Hon- «E G. nil tti was '"granted four days' leave of: absence. fka Small Farms (Relief of UucmBill was reported back from rh* Statutes Revision Committee with ABieadments. The Comuiittee proposed that neither the terms nor the lease wKieh i* ' 3 P ro P olicJ t0 grant shall be ised until the mortgagee has been JltSTti aa opportunity of making objection. was a,so HU gS est;e< i that if a mortgagor defaulted in the payment of jaterest the rent derived from the lease ■Hall on application be used towards the payment of interest owing on the mortgage. In a case "' lu ' rc tlie,-( -' werc several mortgages tlie claims are to bo met |border of priority. The Committee proposed further that where a lessee had lequirod the fee .simple the purchase money should be applied in repayment of any capital sums outstanding in re-. »MCt of mortgages. In moving the second reading the Hon. Sir James Parr said the amendments clearly defined the position oH \ki mortgagee. It was thought by the ; Committco that the Bill was a genuine attempt to take land which was not "being fully utilised for the benefit of -the unemployed. The Hou. Sir Thomas Sidey said the JBilt was an extraordinary one and had certain anomalies which the Council *oold not correct owing to its inability (to make amendments involving expenditure. The Hon. M. Pagan said tho provision tfor appeal by the mortgagee might Mean that the land would bo held up iflflefiniiely and tho unemployed would Wt no benefit from the legislation. Ho loped tho Bill would be sympathetically ■dministered, as tho land was the only plopo for many men with families. Work in the Country, The Hon. K. MeCallum said ho did H«t think tho administrators of the Unemployment Fund had gripped the situation, as too mauy men werc being placed on unproductive works. They should bo put on work in the country liray from picture shows and othor attractions, even, if it meant leaving their families. If the irtfrn did not go they would have to consider taking away their civil rights.. If men did not go cm reproductive work they would become parasite* on tho body politic. Ho did not tuggest that this step should bo taken is the xneautime, but it might bo used a» a throat that the time might tame when drastic measures would have to be applied. The Bill was road a second, time. In tho Committee stage the amendneata proposed by the Statutes Revision ' Committee were adopted, and fte l}i}l was read a third time and parsed* '- The" Council rose at 4.45 p.m.