LAND BILL CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81910, 22 December 1906, Page 2

LAND BILL CAMPAIGN.

TAKANAK! FAKMMIS' I'.VJOVS ATTITI'DK. At a meeting of the provincial executive id' the Farmers' Cnion at Matt era on Thuisday, iii pursuance of notice \\{ motion given at KM. meting. Mr Maxwell introduced the sub ject of the Cuion's altitude towards the Land Uill with a view to have coueerted action re sr.ne.

Alter a full and lengthy discussion ; til;- following 1 notions were carried, to be pushed on to the Colonial Council:

•■That, iu tin: third plank of their idntloriu the Union has endorsed (lie jii'iiit-iplu that the liuvL'rnnii'iil. a..

trustee of the State laijiis, Jin i c a right t» limit tliu am thai any on. individual shall hold nf Crown 'lands. In asking for tin: option of at-qni I lie freehold of Crown and other State

leases, ihe I'ninn propose to further than the iireseni, law- thai i., to say, whilst they not only to i;.,. linui..*ion of ana that ran lie taken n|i on Irani', tliry that llie grants oi all kinds acquired from tin.' Crown under option to purchase whirii may in the future lie granted, shall lie w itli restrict ion as to , irK i. thus preventir,- any pi.s-ihh: ag^rr: ; a. lion {ll estates m) far as the t'rown lands granted are concerned." "That Ik- Ciiion devote the whoV eiiei'gi.'M to .-upport the principle ot tlie freehold geirraliv, ;uid particularly iu Lite righi t-ijuin* tiie freehold of all Crown and other leases from the Stale, a;:-! a of any attempt lu interior..? With present lilies and estates which •ire being beneiicially and are puymg rate.-, and taxo, >„ | on ,.- ;1 ., there are million* of acres of na'iv and Crown land, lying unoccupied and wholly unproductive.' 3

■■Tins exeeutive has no olijeetmn lo ihe remaining Crown lands'going to K'i-ta;n ein'lownirnts, so Ion;:" as the option of the freehold is -riven "