TREE-PLANTING.
It may not be generally known that under tho Land Act passed last session Crown tenants may secure, a reduction of their rent on application to the Land Board, if it can be shown that they have effected a certain amount of. tree-planting. In view of the regulations under which bush land is taken up, this provision reads paradoxical. In the first place a settler is compelled, under the pain of forfeiture, to fell and destroy his bush, and in the second he is subsidised by the Crown if he commences to re-plant tho land with trees. Common-sense would dictate that the rent be reduced if a portion of the. native bush Js allowed .to remain. But is not always a strong feature in the framing of our legislation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1914, Page 4
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130TREE-PLANTING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1914, Page 4
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