New Land Regulations.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 May 1913, Page 2

New Land Regulations.

LEASEHOLD TO FKEEHOLD

Eogulatious covering the purchase of the fee simple of renewable lease lands held under part 4 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, have been gazetted. Eveiy owner of a renewable lease of settlement land who desires to purchase the fee simple o£ the land comprised in his lease must give notice of his intention to the commissioner, and every notico must be accompanied b\- a statuary declaration made by the lessee. Every licence to occupy issued on the determination of a renewable lease must contain such of provisions of the lease as the Land Board considers applicable. If the lisense fails to observe any of the provisions of the lease or makes default in the payment of any instalment ■of the price or of any interest due;"the Land Board may, without notice, forfeit the license.

The declaration to be made by the applicant for the fee simple is to the effect that the laud concerned in the application, together with all the other lands o,rned or occupied, by h.im under any tenure, does sot exceed a total urea of 3000 aores, computed as follows :- (a) Every acre of- first-clasa land is reckoned as 71 acres- \b)bvery acre of saeoud-class land is reckoned a*V--2£ acres; and. (c).every acre of Arum-class land is reckoned as ona abre,