NATIVE LAND LEASES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 13

NATIVE LAND LEASES.

IMPROVEMENT ALLOWANCES.

COMMISSION AT TAUMARUNUI.

[Bl- TELEGRAPH. —OWN correspondent.] TATTMARUNUI. Thursday. At the final sitting at Taumarunui today of the Native Leases Commission, one applicant, the only one in the districfc, raised the questions of the uncertainty as to payment of the allowance for improvements at the end of his term of lease, and the insufficiency of the allowance provided for. The chairman of the commission, Judge MacCormick, expressed his surprise that so little had been said in the Taumarunui district on the improvement question, in view of the concern expressed at Te Kuiti. He said the commission was, however, fully alive to the importance of the question, which it regarded as one of the most important it had to consider. It was not so much a question of recommending relief to individual applicants. The commission would have to deal with the matter as a general principle affecting all peoplo who were in a similar position. The question of increase in rents under leases, added the chairman, involved that of varying a contract which people had entered into with their eyes open. It would be very difficult to deal with, but the commission would consider the matters placed before it.