Erosion on Crown Lands
“We have never had any difficulty in this district with Crown tenants respecting the cost of works to protect their interests in property,” said the chairman, Mr. J. R. Hair, dealing at yesterday's meeting of the P.B. Catchment Board with a letter from the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council defining the accepted responsibility of the Lands and Surveys Department for part or whole cost of contributions to work carried out on Crown Lands. The letter indicated that where such lands were alienated, the lessees would bear a share of the cost of the works, but that where the lessee was unable to meet the cost the department could do so. adding the amount of the expenditure to the capital value of the land.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22872, 16 February 1949, Page 6
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128Erosion on Crown Lands Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22872, 16 February 1949, Page 6
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