AGGREGATION OF LAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15263, 29 March 1913, Page 8

AGGREGATION OF LAND.

ALLEGED TO BE TAKING PLACE.

[BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. The matter of land aggregation was touched upon at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Land Board, when an application for the leaae of a section came up for consideration. The name of the intended transferee prompted an inquiry of the ranger whether the person applying was a member of a certain family who, among themselves, held a very large acreage of land. The ranger said he knew the family, but not the prospective transferee.

"If he belongs to the family, of the same name, then I do not think he is landless, as he states," said the ranger "they have all - got land, the whole family. This man may or may not be a member of this family, and he may hold land, but not in his own name." "We know aggregation is going on," said Mr. Dawson, • adding that it would be possible for him, with a large family, to " mop up'.' a lot of land. A few such families could monopolise all the land in the country.

The ranger said that if the man belonged to the family he knew, the family had land all over the country. It was decided that the ranger should make investigations before the- board disposed of the application.