Party: Government Records - Bauer. Department of Lands McLean, W.M.
Summary
Evidence given by W.M. McLean, Chairman, Land Administration Board, before the Royal Commission on Pastoral Lands Settlement at Brisbane on 9 July 1951. Described as: a very interesting and useful document, not published, which gives some background on the development of Queensland land legislation and states in clear terms the theory of public ownership of land. Not to be quoted directly. Extracts taken.