The Feilding Star. THURSDAY,APRIL 28, 1892.
Cost of Dividing Fences
There is a profound belief in the minds of all settlers, and in fact of land owners generally, whether in town or country, that the maximum price they can be made to pay as their half share of the cost of erecting a dividing fence is ten shillings. We are sorry that we must dispel that belief which is only a delusion nfter all. The Fencing Act of 1881, Clause 18 says:—' 'The maximum price to be paid in respect of one half of the actual cost of erecting any sufficient fence shall not exceed twenty shillings per chain, exclusive of any extra cost for clearing bush along the line of sucb fence. But in the case of a fence erected in any borough of the description in Schedule A numbered three, the maximum price mentioned above shall not exceed thirty- five shillings per chain in respect of one half the cost, provided always that no greater sum shall be charged for the erection of any fence than the absolute half of the cost of such fence." From this it will be seen that a legal divid ing fence id tbe country may be erected at a total cost of two pounds per chain, and in a Borough at a total cost of three pounds ten shillings per chain. It will be well for new settlers, as well as old, to note this.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 129, 28 April 1892, Page 2
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