NEW SOUTH WALES LAND COMMISSION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13933, 15 December 1905, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES LAND COMMISSION.

LAND TENURE AND SETTLEMENT. United Press, Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 14. • At the Lands Commission, a lengthy document was presented on ( behalf of the pastoralists, giving their views on' the questions of land tenure and settlement. It urged that the evidence so far submitted to the Commission was principally ex parte and in the interests of the smaller settlers. The document was practically a reply to a statement by the Fanners' and Settlers' Association, which the pastoralists contend largely consisted of sweeping general assertions that .the legislature and administration had combined ' to favour the pastoralists at the expense of the residential email settlers. The pastoralists were entirely favourable to tho lands being thrown open to settlors, but hot for indiscriminate selection without any attempt to classify thsrn.