EDUCATION LEASES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 2

EDUCATION LEASES

RELIEF FOR TENANTS (Per Press Association,) WELLINGTON,, last night. An extension of the- Land Act to enable relief to be given to tenants of educational and other reserves who arc finding it difficult to meet rent payments, is provided for in the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Bill. Under the Land Act, 1924, power is given whereby the Land Board, with the approval of the Minister of Lands, may in cases of hardship grant to Grown tenants a remission of rent for any period or periods not exceeding five ,years in the aggregate, or postponements to such date or dates as may be determined, or rents not exceeding five years in.the aggregate, pursuant to certain authorities. Some endowments such as higli sphoof reserves are administered not by the authority in which they are vested, but by the land board. Furthermore, certain education reserves are occupied under leases issued under the Land Act Owing to the prevailing depression many tenants of these endowments and reserves are finding a difficulty in paying rents. As they are not' Crown tenants within the meaning of the Land Act, there is po power to grant them relief under section 124 of the Land Act, 1924. It is desired to extend the provisions of this section, so as to make them applicable to tenants of these endowments a/id reserves, with the consent of the authorities in which such endowments or reserves are vested.