RHODESIAN LAND
.—.. — . BOARD TO BE SET UP. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) SALISBURY (Rhodesia), 16th Dec. Sir Leander Jameson announced here that the Legislative Council of Southern Rhodesia would appoint ( a land board to deal with settlement. He stated that the Chartered Company owned the land, and when the proper time appeared they would defend their position. Mr. Egles, a member of the Legislative Council, stated that the great majority of people in the midlands did not sympathise with the meeting the result of which was cabled Inst month, but were prepared to discuss the company's scheme. [The scheme outlined by the Chartered Company provides for a land settlement board, with powers to acquire land within twenty-five miles of a town or railway, and resell it to small settlers, making advances to help them to develop their holdings.' Last month a meeting at Buluwayo, it was reported, declined to accept the scheme because it involved the admission that ttnalienated land in Southern Rhodesia was the property of the Chartered Company.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 146, 17 December 1913, Page 7
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