LAND SETTLEMENT.
(Pee United Pbess Association.) Wklunoton, July 30. At the Land Board to-day Mr M'Cardle, one of the members, stated that great hardship would be entailed on a large number ol struggling and deserving settlers by the action I taken by tho board in carryiug out the opinion I givon them by the Crown Bolicitor that a nonresident selector must, before he acquires a title !to hi 3 selection, cultivate two-fifths of his land, and spend, in addition, £2 an acre in substantial improvements. Mr Baker, chief commissioner, ' said that was tho true interpretation of the act, aud the board had absolutely no power to relax tho conditions in any way. If, however, it pressad harshly oa industrious settlers they should petition Parliament for relief while the new land act is before them. His experience in this district was that it was not bona fide settlers
at all who were trying to obtain a title, but persons who had taken up land as a speculation to sell again, or by persons who are seeking to evado the conditions which non-reßidence imposes on them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9182, 31 July 1891, Page 2
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184LAND SETTLEMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 9182, 31 July 1891, Page 2
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