TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Our correspondent " Boz '' makes charges against an that we dare not pvK)iish. It sho.uld never be forgotten that-evea the truth. about some people is Land (s wtmk,?W'airaunius-^A " huhdfed- " is simply^ _ the term applied to a block of laijg^proeCiinVed*' jjy the Governor \ as open for settlement. Should the hundred be taken' from country under pastoral lease, it. must not exceed 20,000 acres , .^ni extent, and one-third at least iuu'sfc be agricultural land. If the hundred is declared on land ndt under lease, the,re .is no restriction as to either size of.bjLock or quality of land. Purchasers ii^'a hundred have the exclusive privl- 1 MgP* $■ • gf^ziing stock over the unsold portion of the hundred. The exercise of this privilege is regulated according to acreage .heldrby the f .purchaser, and the regulations are made by wardens, who I are elected by and.from among, the purchasers themselves. ' J
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 328, 5 February 1884, Page 2
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