A bill designed to protect poor tenant cultivators, just published, provides that they receive sufficient notice of the termination of the tenancy and compensation for agricultural improvements they introduced on the land.
Much of the land in Palestine is worked by tenants who hand over at least one-third of the crop to the absentee landlord as “rental.” This feudal practice goes back many centuries, and until the British came, the tenant cultivator was entirely at the mercy of the landlord.
The registration of two companies, the Palestine Hotel Company and the Jerusalem Electric & Public Services Corporation, Limited, is announced. The latter has taken over from the Power Securities Corporation the concession for the supply of electricity to Jerusalem.
Registration of the hotel company brings Jerusalem several steps nearer in providing adequate hotel facilities for the increasing number of tourists to Palestine.
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