MARRIED WOMEN AS LANDOWNERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4637, 1 February 1894, Page 2

MARRIED WOMEN AS LANDOWNERS.

(By Telegraph.—Preas Association),

Dunedin, January 81,

At a meeting of the Land Board to-diiy, the down Solicitor gave an opinion on" the point raised as to the area of laud a married woman might apply for under the Land Act, 1892, He Btuted that a married woman could only become the owner,lioensee or lessee, under pane 8,4, or sof the Land Act, 1892, of 820 aores of first class land, or of 10G0 aores of second class land ; bat that she might be an applicant for 2000 aores of land, inclusive of not more than 640 acieß of first class land. He did not think that the law would have been left bo bad the attention of the legislature been directed to the point, but' there wasnothing in either sections 62 or 93 to exclude mairied women from being applicant)! up to 2000 acres. The third paragraph of section 03 was not amended by sub-clause U of section 3 of the Land Act "Amend' put Act, 1808, although it waa no doubt the intention to amend it by substituting the word '"selector" which bus a defined inkpretuiion, for the word " owner" which has not, He did not think, however, ihat it mattered .go far as re< garded the decision of the present point, as the intention of section 93 clearly was that a married woman might acquire any title contemplated by parts 3,4, auh sof the Act to 326 aores of first o'ass land, or 1000 acres ofeeoond class land, and if she might acquire a title she might make application and do everything else necea«ry to be done as preliminary to the acquisition of such a title as she desired to obtain,