GOVERNMENT LAND BILL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1907, Page 6

GOVERNMENT LAND BILL.

ME.. M'NAB'S CAMPAIGN. [BT THLEGP.APH.—IIJE3S ASSOCIATION.] WHANGAEEI, 2Cth February. 1 In the course of a speech on tho Government land proposals laet night, Mr. M'Xab said the question of freehold was not the sole problem confronting the Government. X great difficulty was the pro- - curing of any land at aIL All land taken . from large freehold estates, which was thrown upon the market, would still retain the freehold, and those who got it <• -would still havo freehold rights;. If aiiy person held freehold land to the value of two hundred thousand pounds, ho v/ould have to part with it, and there would bo twenty persona holding freehold property where only one had held it before. Later, in referring to native lands, tho Minister stated that all such lands declared by tho Commianoners to be surplus would be dealt with by legislation, which would make them available for disposal in tho open market without any need of effecting their purchase through the Crown. They would be disposed of under the freehold fyrtem on term? favourable to buyers. CHRISTCHURCH, 20th February. Afc a meeting of the executive of tho North Canterbury branch of the Farmer.^' Union a committee was appointed to arXMDgB for a. land campaign in support of the freehold.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., will hold a tale of store sheep at JohnnonTillo on Tuesday next, 26th February. About 1500 sheep have already been entered. At 2 o'clock to-morrow Mcshh. W. H. Morrah and Co. will toll by public auction in their rooms, Willie-street, household furniture and appointments, tliu eonfonts of a grntleman's residence, removed to their rooms for convenience of sale. Detail* are-publiiihod in our auoiiau columns.