LOCKING-UP LAND.
A northern paper has this suggestive paragraph :—“ Sir Cracroft Wilson was the fortunate owner of large estates in Canterbury. They, exceed 60,000 acres, and include some of the best land in that fine province. Sir Cracroft has just died, and has, after the English fashion, left a will, which bequeaths this enormous property to a number of his living descendants, who are to. take successive life interest. At their death the property has to go to the eldest son of the last tenant for life. A magnificent block of country will be thus locked up for certainly eight years, and, perhaps, for a century, when the tenant of that date will be able to repeat the deadly process for an indefinite period longer. It is the English law applied for the first time in New Zealand. It is an. example which other great land owners will not be slow to follow if it be allowed to pass unchallenged.”
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Patea Mail, 21 May 1881, Page 4
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