![]() ![]() It would, therefore, be very hard for any valuator to fix the rent by the economic method, or to arrive at a fair rent by any other mode than that suggested. He maintained that it would absolutely be impossible for a valuator going to 99 holdings out of 100 to see what was the natural quality of the soil. But there was another element which it was absolutely necessary to consider in fixing a fair rent, and that was the natural quality of the soil. Of course, if they adopted an economic mode of fixing rent, they must consider several circumstances they must consider the average of the prices, say, for seven years, of the crops principally grown on the holding they must consider the position and circumstances of the holding and they must consider the cost of production. The valuator should go to the holding and take the holding as it stood. and learned Friend the Attorney General for Ireland (Mr. It was explained very fully by his right hon. The clause dealing with fair rents was one which he thought was easily enough understood. ![]() Indeed, the former expressed his opinion, before the Commission, that there was no use in laying down rules for the regulation of rent between landlord and tenant and the only way in which it could be properly done was by getting competent valuators, and letting them go to the holdings and exercise their own common sense on the subject. In that opinion Judge Longfield, one of the most experienced men in Ireland on this question, and other eminent men concurred. He did not forget that it was one of the most intricate and difficult parts of the subject and, in his mind, it would be quite impossible to arrive at any scientific way of adjusting rent between landlord and tenant in Ireland. He thought also that the tenant farmers of the North understood them too, though he did not say they entirely approved of them. Shaw) happened one evening to go to Belfast, and he met there a conference of hard-headed Northerners, and underwent two hours' cross-examination on the clauses of the Bill and he thought he was able to understand those clauses dealing with a fair rent. Gibson) was very much puzzled indeed, as he said, as to this part but he (Mr. The first part of the Bill contained the rules for regulating the relationship between the landlord and tenant and as the most important question in that part of the Bill was the question of rent, he should first of all refer to that. Therefore, any suggestion he might make to amend or improve the Bill would, he believed, be entirely within its principle, and would tend to the simplification and better working of the measure. Of course, in proposing Amendments, he recognized the necessity of keeping strictly to the principle of the Bill, for it would be most unreasonable to seek to alter its entire structure or change its principle. He should occupy the House as briefly as possible in suggesting a few points in which he thought the Bill might be improved. To his mind that Bill, dealing with a great and most complicated subject, affecting interests so varied and so important, was a great Bill, and he believed as easily understood as any Bill that had ever been introduced on a great subject. However, he got right again in about five minutes, and when he came to look at the Bill again he did not feel at all disturbed. Gibson), he must say that his mind was quite upset on the question. and learned Friend the Member for Dublin University (Mr. But when he heard the speech of his right hon. When the Bill was intro- duced, he took the liberty of expressing a general approval of it, and as soon as he possibly could he most carefully read it in fact, he read it twice, and he was almost ashamed to tell the House that he understood it-at least, he thought he did. ![]() Many of the speeches that had been made were directed rather to the details of the Bill, and might have been more appropriately made in Committee. ![]() Said, that he should make his remarks as brief as possible, for the Bill had now been debated for seven nights and, so far as he could judge, very little impression had been made upon its principle. ![]()
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