“CONTIGUITY.”

Temuka Leader, Issue 228, 27 January 1880, Page 2

“CONTIGUITY.”

What is “contiguity ”in the eence meant by the Land Act when dealing with deferred-payment sections ? 'This (says a Southland paper )jWas the knotty question at the meeting of the Invercargill Waste Land Board, raised by an application from Longwood. The legal opinion read was to the effect that if the two pieces of land were separated by a road line, they were not contiguous to each other in the sense of the Act. Some members of the Board differed this, pointing out that the fact of a road did not interfere with selling land for cash, and ought not to do so in the case of deferred-payment land. Another member held that the road f drly divided the two blocks, and they could not be considered “ contiguous,” which inferred running conterminous, without anything between, The latter view, was adopted by the majority; and decided the application. At the same sitting, the legal meaning of “ subdivision ” involved Borne consideration. A settler applied for a block with the view of placing all his family on it. At present, the block is surveyed for four allotments, and the request was that it he made three, by a rssurvey. Was this “subdivision’ ? The settler, who argued his case well, held it was not, the word implying a division into a greater than the existing number ‘ and what he wanted reverse, the total area not exceeding more than the law allowed. One jDMTnbei of the Board suggested that simply put a hut with a “ but md alien on the boundary line, as a way out ot the difficulty ; but this did not meet with much favor ; so to end the matter the sections were allotted survey'd which wai practically refusing th application.