Arbitration. 
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more than a simplification of procedure and the substitution of 
one arbitrator for two arbitrators and an umpire in all cases. 
Nothing will interfere with the employment of valuers by the 
parties as heretofore. Even now, where a tenancy agreement 
provides for two arbitrators, an umpire can only be appointed 
either by agreement between the parties or by the Board of 
Agriculture and Fisheries. Under the new Act, notwithstanding 
any agreement, only a single arbitrator can be appointed. 
The sub-section, moreover, requires that future arbitrations 
shall not only be before a single arbitrator, but that they 
should be conducted “ in accordance with the provisions set 
out in Part I. of the second schedule to the Agincultural 
Holdings Act, 1900.” The result of thus substituting these 
statutory provisions for the obscure and sometimes imworkable 
clauses to be found in contracts of tenancy will be to get rid 
of a common source of difficulty and delay, and even of 
expensive litigation, which has, in recent practice, hindered 
the smooth working of these Acts. There is also a further 
advantage in seciiring the use of the form of award prescribed 
by the Board. 
Another useful little amendment of the law provides that the 
arbitrator shall on the application of either party specify the 
amount awarded in respect of any particular improvement or 
any particular matter the subject of the award. The necessity 
for the introduction of the words “ particular matter ” in the 
present Act was occasioned by the refusal of some arbitrators 
to state more in their award than they were compelled to do 
by the actual words of the Act ; as, however, under the present 
Act the arbitrator will be required to determine other things 
besides the compensation for improvements, as indeed he was, 
although not to the same extent, under the earlier Acts, the 
provision should prove useful. 
Repairs to Buildings. 
Those who are familiar with the text of the Agricultui’al 
Holdings Act, 1900, are aware that the first schedule to the 
Act is sub-divided into three parts. The first part contains a 
list of certain improvements for which the tenant is at liberty 
to claim compensation, if made with the consent of the land- 
lord ; the second, improvements in respect of which a notice 
to the landlord is required to be given before the work is 
undertaken by the tenant ; and the third a list of improvements 
which the tenant is entitled to make without either previously 
giving notice to or obtaining the consent of the landlord. In 
this third part are now placed “ repairs to buildings, being 
buildings necessary for the proper cultivation or working of 
the holding, other than repaii’s which the tenant is himself 
