POLITICAL NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2024, 13 September 1913, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

OROWN FREEHOLDS. A petition fion Ohakuna Was p-cssntet to the Honse on Wooes* day afternoon The petition set ost that mauy of tfum had vet* for the Reform Party on the. promise that if t'-e party wss returned to power steps would be tak-n to give them the freehold of t eir holdings; t at the last election was iosght on the question of freeholi v. leasehold; and they therefore askod that legislation be introdoced without delay to give them the freeholi of their holdirgg S, eaking to the petition, Mi Witty sai that there was a big selling value in these sections, which wonld ba town sections in a very few years, and t e ownera wanted to get the freehold, so t at the sections co Id be cut up and sold pt a huge profit J st for the 8-ke of a f<LW votes the Government was going to give away this la'jd, wcio; belonged to the people.

The Prime Minister was under stood to say that tiie holders of leaseholds at Ohakune wonld be given t e option of the freehold, but that there would be no attempt to do away with t e national endowments.