SOUTHLAND LEASE CASE
STATEMENT BY THE HON F. H. D. BELL. (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Alluciincr to the Southland coal lease case and to an assertion made in various journals that aVw fee simple had apparently been created, the Hon. F. H. D. Bell made the following statement to a ".fost" reporter: —"In "England, and everywhere where English law prevails, a title in fee simple to the soil can he, and is, frequently separated, iron: a title to minerals, and when so separated there are two inheritances. That is always the case where railway companies acquire the fee simple of land on which their railway runs. The owner remains in possession of the minerals. Moreover, the freehold of land can be held in tiers —the freehold of the fiat can be granted above another flat. The idea that either Sir Joshua Williams or the Massey Government havejnvented a new and formerly unknown tenure is erroneous. Mr iiviassey was aware, I think, of the law on the point, and as a layman he perhaps failed, to comprehend the difficulties. Want of knowledge on the subject has apparently caused editors and other laymen to come to an erroneous conclusion."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 11 March 1913, Page 5
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