Expected Liberal Land Law Administration

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 7, 16 July 1891, Page 4

Expected Liberal Land Law Administration

•Scene, a future Land office. Dramatis Persona^ •.— An Intending Settler (1.5.), and The Law (Lj I-S.— Please, sir, i want to buy some , 1 nd. L.— Haye not got any for sale. ■ I.S. — I see ia the Cro«'u Lands Guide that persons can stiil buy for cash, and there artr 640 acres remaining in such and such a block L. — I dou't intend to sell it; ani 1 dou'l see wluit you want to buy it for Why don't you take up land on perpetual lease ? ] .S.— l want the freehold . L. -Yes, you want to become a social pest, and * nuisance to your poorer neighbors. You want to figure as a freeholder in the undst of struggling tenants of the Crown. Any Low what do you vv ii clif (a ;i d for? IS. — For a shei p farm. L I don't believe it Y^n want to let it to be idle, and reap the unearned increment. Thai's whatys.u to do. I know you You arc all alike. I.S. — Then atay I take it up on de ferred payment? L. — 1 don't want to sell anyland.de j ferred or otherwise, but unfortunately I •can't refuse you. The block you want, Lo\vev;-r, has not been declared open for sale on the deferred payment system, so | you can't get it till it is. Yl>u will then huve to take } T our chance amongst other j applicants. Ihe sections will be bal loied for ; and, look here, if I catch yon putting in more than „one application I will put you in gaol. D'ye hear ? I.S. — It i> no use waiting for such an - off chance of getting so small a piece of laud as 640 acres, which will m all probability be spilt into bits of sections, which will fall into different hands. L.— Well, I told you so. Why don't _.j"U take-up a bit of land on perpetual lease ? I.S. — "I don't want a lease on those ■ t*-rms, because I have a home which I am not' going to break up in order to reside in the thick of the bush. And, again, the same tomfool provisions relute to the acquisition of a lease as lo • deferred-payment lauds. L. — I -am not going to hare people j pick and choose the eyes out of the j -• country. You will just have to take, or -go without as the case may be, what the » ballot decides. I. ■■• — lt isn't good enough. By the : the by, have you got any small grazing ruiisto let? L.— Yes. 1.6. - What's the size of them ? L.— They run from 640 acres up to i-5000. 1.5.~- What sort of land is it, and how i-«ituated? -L. — You may take your oath it nin't ■imn?h account, or it would not be al lowed to go in such big blocks. Tops of :-" mountains, punnce lands ami suchlike, r that's what those leaseholds are. I.S. — How can you manage to cut up "■ -country fu for .sheepfarming in bits of blocks of those sizes so as to eive e:ich = -occupier a fair share of water, and of flit J land to build his homesiead on ? I suppose each leaseholder has got to effect improvements, such as house, wool-sired, pabdocks, &c. L. -You bei; he has; and there is a . ranger to see he makes them. I.S.— And.if ite fails from any cause? L. — Then he goes, and leaves bis im- - - .provements behind Mm. lam not going toTiave any nonsense with these sheep farmers. i.S —I don't see how sheepfarmios - Tiiil be encouraged under those circum- : stances. You cannot expect people to take up rough country in small areas. Some wild country will starve a JOOO sweep on 10-000 acres. L. — 1 aui not going to encourage sheep* farming, and i don't hold with people --" owning more thau 1000 sheep. f.S. — But sheep made New Zealand, . and «f the coumry had not been held in large blocks m the early days, sheep* farming could not have flourished. L. — All the same I am aot going to _ have big estates uor large flocks, and so . I tell you straight. I.S. —Then I suppose I had better pack up, and clear out for Australia. L. — You can clear out to Mie if - you like. Exit I.S. —Napier Telegraph.

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