THE RENEWABLE LEASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14685, 19 November 1909, Page 2

THE RENEWABLE LEASE

LAND MUST REMAIN LEASEHOLD. (Froh Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, November 18. In conversation with your Teprescnlatative to-day, Mr Massey. emphasised a point which, he had made with reference to the land proposals of the Government during the course of his Budget speech. He declared that there was positively no laud to which the paragraph providing for the freehold under the heading " Kencwablo loaves uf ordinary Crown lands " coukl apply, as directly a settler look up land under the venewa'blo lease it became, by virtue of his so doing, part oi the national endowments. Mr Massey referred to the fact that early in his statement of of the Government's land proposals Sir Joseph Ward had said " that. no part of the 9,000,000 acres constituting the national .endowments would be disposed of on any tenure excepting that of leasehold. "As up to the present time," continued Mr Massey, " there were only 8,0C0,000 edd acres so pet .apart, it followed that until the 9,0 C.OOO acres had been reached there was, as he had said, no land to which the paragraph in question could apply, and as 10 settlers took up land under the o.r.p. tenure for everyone that took up land, under, the renewable lease, it was not likely that the 9.000,000 limit would be reached for many years to' romp