LAND LAW MATTERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13802, 30 September 1915, Page 8

LAND LAW MATTERS.

. - .- m> . ■ . - ■;• . SOME INTERESTING AM.ENIH . ' MENTS. ■'■ ■.'•:; "":':' PROVISIONS FOR SOLDIERS. ' . {From Our Parliamentary Reoorter.l / ■*fay t '<"■»■■ WELLINGTON, this day. Among the provisions in. a "small Land .-: Bill broughtvjn by Goyerppr^^nessage ; . ;last night is one amending the regula- ,-■. tion necessitating a . width of v 99 * ee k for^ main roads in -a town and of ""56 'feet' fotf'side roads to the of authorising Ihe Minister to prevent; a-naprdwer width, "in cases where Circumstances, rehder^lessi width desirable.*' The Bill.sets"iorth,;.however, that ;^het*>a v :roaa^, , ■ U\less than'p^ feet in width no buildang shall' Be" erected within "a*' distance ot 33 feet froni t^e ; 'centre of the "ro^'d-. way.' - Another " provisiohr'e^^b^es^ the acquisition of tlie fee simple -a^a-i>nee^ representing ' the annual t -?en;t *eppitaj : < is£d at five.>,per^ceptuni of r C^^;,i^nds; ; . ?n mining districts, Hauraki^and^;W*^i laUd^,di«triclfe .being particuuarised. ... ■It is also'" proposed/., to? make the freehold available- -to lessees vdF'^unaflfrgra^rtg' ; '/riuns^ieven!: though the area occupied be in excess of the prescribW'ar^provid«d tfc'at in- 'the opinion of the Land Board this 'excess land is unsuitable for separate? occupation. . Furth>ri' pr6vM>n enables the Minister to load anj'proWn teased" "under the 1908 or any former land' Acts with "the" cost of any roading, draining, or other; workS carried out fox the improvement of ' the land, > anl to add to! the capital value of the various holdings^ any '.proportion he considers, just, with a consequent modiflca-; tion Of 'the leases. v A 'clause" Mealing with, Crown land, held -memhers of th£ expeditionary forces 'permits the Minister to "exempt wholly or in part from the payment of rent any orvlicensee of sneh^'and' whpv is or pas' been a member 'of>the'< expeditionary forces. ....„*„ This -exemption "is limited to the expiry of six ninths from >the. date o£the soldier's discharge from nuli'taM "afe^iee. According , to "the promise madeby the PrimeX Minister a clause is also inserted •givingi permission . to a, member of the. -expeditionary forces to appoint ah ag«nt' lor marking' application' fo^-landj pn.vM? behalf during his absence from. . Nejy Zealand on military service^. The' Bill contains precautionary 'pToirisiph^against fraudulent representation j 3r/v '•persons claimincr to be the agents of, soldiers applying for Crown land.., : ,