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REPORT.

1. The Committee considered the terms of reference, and decided to limit the field for discussion to recommendations for amendments relevant to the Land Act, 1923, and the present Bill.

2. In furtherance of this decision, they have considered suggestions for amendment of the Bill as introduced, and, in addition, have examined proposals which were directed to the extension and enlargement of the provisions of the present measure.

3. The principal subjects dealt with were fee-farm grants, residential holdings, evicted tenants, fishing rights, and disused mill holdings.

4. Recommendations are made with regard to these subjects, excluding residential holdings. The recommendations are set out in the Schedule hereto in the form (so far as possible) of amendments to the Bill, and are numbered.

Fee-farm grants: Various proposals to alter the status of fee-farm grantees and long leaseholders outside congested district counties were considered. The Committee’s recommendations are set out at Nos. 34 and 35 of the Schedule.

Residential holdings: Proposals aimed at limiting the definition of residential holdings proved unacceptable to the Committee. No recommendation is accordingly made on this subject.

Evicted tenants: Recommendations to give evicted tenants the benefits of Land Purchase are set out at Nos. 13 and 14 of the Schedule.

Fishing rights: It is recommended (No. 30 of the Schedule) that power should be given to the Land Commission to dispose of fishing rights on tenanted lands to the tenant purchasers.

Disused mill holdings: It is also recommended (No. 5 of the Schedule) that tenants of disused mill holdings should be enabled to purchase.

5. A number of other recommendations, relating chiefly to verbal alterations and to amendments of a technical character, are also set out in the Schedule.

Chairman of the Select Committee.

7th December, 1926.