DETERIORATED LANDS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 August 1929, Page 9

DETERIORATED LANDS.

HELP TO SETTLERS. HALF A MILLION WRITTEN OFF. (By Telegraph—Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 13. The annual (report on Crown land settlement shows that the work of various committees set up under- the provisioais of the Deteriorated Lands Act hals. practically been completed. Tli-e total liurnr-b-er of applications for relief received from settlers in various, districts- "was 1864. In i. 455 cases reductions amounting to £503,843 have been made in capital values-, involving a reduction ot £23,739 in annual rents and interest payable. Mortgages have been reduced by’ some £51,262, -sixty cases having been dealt with under this heading. Advances totalling £24,335 have been authorised in suitable cases for the pur-c-ha se of fencing materials, lime and manures, while remissions of rent have been granted oil a liberal basis on conditions providing that the equivalent amount is expended- on improvements. The recommendations of the various committees have been given- effect to wherever possible and the assistance granted in terms of the Act has proved of great benefit in enabling the settlersconcerned to make- good progress with the task of -bringing their holdings back into full production.