Fencing Swamp Land
♦- The following is a sufficient fence through swampy land, according to the Fencing Act, 1881 : — For swampy land, a ditch not less than 6 feet wide - and 2 ieet deep, with bank not less than 3 feet high, with posts not less than 4 feet high from the surface of the ground, and not more than 9 feet apart, with not less than two rails or three wires, or with one rail and two wires, or posts and lour rails, or posts and seven wires, with ditch, as already described, and no bank, the posts being not less than 4 feet 6 inches high from the surface of the ground, nor more than 9 feet apart where rails are used, and not more than eight ieet apart where wires are used, the posts being inserted in the ground not less than 2 feet. One of the clauses ol the Act reads thus : — Any other description of fence mutually agreed upon by the parties interested.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 4
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167Fencing Swamp Land Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 4
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