A CURIOUS APPLICATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 27 September 1883, Page 2

A CURIOUS APPLICATION.

The Southland News' reports an amusing, application which came before the Land -Hoard a few days ago. The case niav he termed- the case of the two Margarets, They both live in a country district, and one wished to

'vanafer her deferred-payment section to the other. Asked why she did not ;o to live on it herself, it was ex)lained by Margaret No 1 that she had

been married about the time she should have taken up her abode on the allotment, To the suggestion that she might influence her husband to live there, she smilingly answered in the negative, whereupon one of the members jocosely expressed regret that Bhe had not, although, so lately wedded, more power over.', her spouso than her answer implied. This was followed by a still more startling query, seemingly put with the' utmost- gravity—Could she not obtain a divorce and go on the land herself? .The young matron, with a good-humored appreciation of the situation, replied very emphatically that such a thing was not to be thought of, "Ah, well," was the slowly uttered comment of a member of the Board," after ten years of married life you may not regard the idea with so much horror." Then came the

intimation that although some improvements had been made, 110 house had

been erected on the land. The Board could not grant the transfer till the conditions of the Act had been coin-

plied with, but the difficulty was overcome by the Board offering to postpone consideration of the application for three months, to be granted then if the required improvements huve been niade. Margaret No. 2, who certainly did not as a member venture to hint, look much like an able-bodied agriculturist, was then asked by her companion if she could undertake to have the building put up in that time, and gave the decidedly non-committal reply—" I'll see, whatever,"