Land Board Regulations

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 157, 30 June 1891, Page 4

Land Board Regulations

R.'\t_ \\\ a t Land Bt>ard mecMng on I htiiMl.iy rin opinion was read from h iirnlly, the Crown Prosecutor, as. to^*i"ns'*iii>i»r«>vc)uient requhed to ho pffiMjteil before sebefo's who do not ' Tesule can oluniu then titles The ' 'BourH lesolved to issue regularions i,"for"the jiiuMance of tliw Crown Lauch r 'IRari^er bu iiiopeotin^ 1 holdings I'hH [J^opfijijn -lefajieci to is as fwllo«s: — '"As to lht» m<'.miil(T <if 8e< # tiori I '.I of thri-Lami \«f Auieinltnent Act,"lW7, it ; is, in my opinion, clear beyoud .doubt' that the selector, in ordei +o entitle himself to a grant (without peisonai residence), must both (1) cultivate and (2) permanently impiove his land to twice the amount aciuall} requiied by section 114. Uuder Beer ion 114, sub-section 7, one-fifth of the laiid (it tural) is to be cultivated within four years, 'and under subsection^ 8^ substantial improvements, '-- 'etc., to the value of £1 per acre aie to 't be put on the land within sixyeais. "Similaily under »ection 149, the holder, /6ffa perpetual lease is'bouud, both to' j^sukiifate aud improve tp a,hke extent, ' and *t he "application of "section 21 "is _ to this tenure also. Under ~ -■>." both'f systems, therefore", the licensee "is hound to comply with each of these * 'conditions, and if personal residence is dispensed with, he must comply r with> thorn <to double the-^ extent '.originally prescribed. The double compliance becomes a condition of his .license, /md it is only upon performance of this condition that he can - insist his grant under .section 16 t . .of the Amendment Act of 1887. The H,'risw<t>r accordingly to the fiist 'tju^stiou is that the nou-'resident , -'seledtor must under section 21 from *" '•"time' to time Cultivate two-fifths of his "lahd'i a'nd-'spVnd'' in addition £'J per, |tDaum per acre in substantial impfovemoutß.