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Thus Mr Nunneley, who appears to have succeeded, 

 where others have failed, and to have shown enterprise 

 and resource in adapting his methods to the times, would 

 allow a tenant to make any improvement he pleases, 

 with the knowledge that if it was found to have added to 

 the value of the holding, he should be paid for it, and if 

 not, he would lose his money. He would put no limit 

 on the tenant's outlay, but would give the landlord the 

 right to claim for deterioration. 



The drainage procedure under Part II he considers 

 complicated and unworkable. Entire freedom is best. 



" It is so important that the land should be as well 

 cultivated as possible, that although I should be very 

 sorry for a landlord who could not afford to pay for 

 improvements, I consider the good of the country must 

 override the good of individual landlords, and if a man 

 is not in a position to pay for improvements, the sooner 

 the land belongs to someone who can do so, be he land- 

 lord or tenant, the better for the landlord, the tenant, and 

 the whole country. In practice, all tenants would give 

 notice of intended improvements, as they would prefer 

 the landlords to do them. Again, the valuer would, in 

 considering whether an act was an ' improvement ' or not, 

 take into consideration the purpose for which the farm 

 was let." 



Mr Bowen Jones thinks that permanent improvements 

 might well be carried out by the tenant at his own risk ; 

 whether the improvements were worth anything would 

 be decided by the arbitration at the termination of the 

 tenancy. 



Mr Carrington Smith wishes that the tenant's claim 

 for unexhausted improvements should be unrestricted 

 by schedules, and that he should have a right, of which 

 he could not be deprived, to recover the full value of any 

 agricultural improvements made by him, without the 

 consent of his landlord. The arbitrator would decide 

 whether it was really an improvement or a v/aste of 

 money. 



Mr Bear thinks it is a restraint of agriculture to 

 prevent the improvement of land, and if the landlord 



