PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 8

PARLIAMENT

TO-DAY'S SITTING , LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Tho Legislative Council met at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. The following Bills were received from tho House of Representatives and read a first time : River Boards Amendment, Water Supply Amendment, Police Force, and Eangitikoi Land Drainage Amend- ( ment. LAND BILL. In moving the second reading of tho Land Laws Amendment BUI, tho Minister said ho came to ask the Council to ratify finally the offer of tho freehold to Crown tenants. No proposaT'of tho present Government had infringed at all the National Endowment lands. He was himself a lessee of pastoral lands, and the Bill very largely improved the position of pastoral tenants. Now he was bound to do what he could to further the intentions of the Govern« ment with regard to these leases, though up till the time he had become a Minister he had taken no part in the particular part of the legislation. Ho really had no personal interest in tins land. Ho was the nominal holder 6f a license; though as a beneficiary and an executor of his father's estate his interest was very small.