CROWN TENANTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22135, 3 July 1937, Page 7

CROWN TENANTS

ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT ASHBURTON

VOLUNTARY READJUSTMENT OF MORTGAGES

A decision to ask the Government to decide what is a reasonable livins allowance for Crown tenants was made bv the Ashburton branch of the Crown Tenants' Association at its annual meeting yesterday. Mr B. Mackay (president) presided. The balance-sheet showed that the year began with a credit of £4 Is lid. and closed with a credit of 15s The president, in his report, said that during the year the delegates at-

tended meetings of the Dominion executive at Timaru. and all Ashburton resolutions had received a very good bearing. The president said he was sure that mrther legislation would have to be provided to put the Crown settler on a fair basis on the land. The machinery was there and it all depended on the administration. The following officers were elected: President Mr B Mackay: vice-presi-dent. Mr R. T. Latimer: secretary and treasurer. Mr W. H. Amos: standing committee, the president, vice-presi-dent Messrs J. H. Robertson. K W Wightman. C. C. Wim. L. L. Aitken. F. W. Rogers. W. R. Hammond. J W Riley, and M P 'W. Blathwayt: delegate to Dominion °xecutiv>. the oresi den*, vice-president <md Mr Riley. Mr AitVen moved that they support the resolution of the Washdykf branch which had protested against the lack of headway made by the department? concerned towards voluntary readjustment of mortgages. In seconding the motion, which was carried. Mr J. H. Robertson said that some tenants did not know how they

stood. He understood Vhey were not in a position to buy manure and seeds and other requirements without i«revious authority. It was also decided to send the resolutions to the Government