AMENDING THE LAND LAWS.
A DEPARTMENTAL measure. . [by telegraph.—special CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Monday. In explaining tjie Land .Caws Amendment, j Bill, which was introduced in the House j of Representatives this evening, the Prime Minister said that so far as he conld tell there was nothing controversial in the Bill. It was a purely Departmental measure. The moat important clause in it dealt with a difficulty that had cropped tip in the Taranald district. The Government had I been buying some very valuable land in | the Tnranaki district, and, according to I the present law, one-quarter of the reve- | nut' from these lands, whether rental or I capital realised by sale, went to the New Plymouth Harbour Board. This was certainly never intended by the framers of 1 the Act. j Mr. 0. A. Wilkinson (Egmont): The Board docs not want it. , Mr. Massey: The Board is so fully im- : pressed with the injustice of the position ' flint. T «m enm if mill ;x 1,
> mat. iam sure it will never claim it. It i has never claimed it up till the present. ' .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 6
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182AMENDING THE LAND LAWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 6
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