POLITICAL NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10579, 7 October 1910, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

By Telegraph

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Welington, October 6. —Leasing a Racecourse. — The proposal of the New Plymouth Borough Council to lease the racecourse reserve for building sites, which met with so much opposition on the second reading of the Empowering Bill, has been agreed to by the Local Bills Committee on the condition that all revenue received from tho leases should be applied to improving and beautifying other-reserves, in the borough and purchasing more reserves with the balance. - '—Settlers and Land. — A return laid before Parliament to--, day, on the motion of Mr Witty, shows that up till August 3L 1910 there were . -5455 - occupation-with-riglifr-of-purchase settlers in New, Zealand, including;.imi proved farnr selectors'who haveifnot. yet; received their license. The area of their "land was 1,758,405 acres,, of an j improved , value of,. £1.675,481, tho values" being at the time of selection' 4 Tlie number of. these settlers who "their holdings was 858, "l" and" the a a'mount paid £189,533. ..'ThSlrfeturrf < also* shows that the 1 lease-in-perpetuity settleis whe have-purchased'their holdings number; 131, the amount .'paid being £32,361. Seventeen tenants have taken advantage of the; op,tiqn to pay off a portion of the 90 plev, 'cent. -allowed bylaw, the amount paid" being £4359.