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sation on account of any injury or damage caused to stock by mining operations upon the area so held under mining privilege. "Upon the termination, by effluxion of time or otherwise of a license for a mining privilege granted over an area held under lease, the rent payable under such lease shall be proportionately increased on an acreage basis on account of the area so released from license for mining privilege. " The lessee shall put upon the land comprised in. his lease substantial improvements of like value and within the like periods as prescribed in section one hundred and sixty-two of this Act, subject to the right of the Land Board to modify such conditions in their discretion in the event of licenses for mining privileges being granted within the area. " Personal residence shall be compulsory, and shall commence on bush and swamp lands within four years and upon, open or partly open lands within one year from the date of selection, and thereafter shall be continuous during the whole of the remainder of the term, subject, however, to the right of the Land Board to dispense with personal residence upon sufficient and satisfactory grounds being shown for non-residence. " All water-rights are reserved to the Crown, but not so as to deprive the lessee's stock of access to the water on his holding. " The holder of a lease under this Part of the Act may, with the consent of the Warden and the Board, surrender his lease and obtain in lieu thereof a renewable lease subject to the provisions of section one hundred and ninety-three of the principal Act, or acquire the fee-simple of the land comprised in his lease in like manner as provided in section twenty-eight of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and subject to the restrictions imposed by section twenty-nine of that Act. ; ' With respect to applications to exercise the right conferred by this section the following provisions shall apply :— " A copy of every application shall be lodged by the lessee at the Warden's Court nearest to the land affected, and such application shall be deemed to be an. application for a mining privilege. The provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, relating to procedure on application for mining privileges shall apply. " The right to acquire the fee-simple conferred by the last preceding section upon holders of leases under this Part of this Act shall extend and apply to the holders of licenses for residence-sites and business-sites granted under the Mining Act. : ' With respect to licenses in existence at the date of the passing of this Act the following provisions shall apply : — " For the purposes of calculation of the price in accordance with section twenty-eight of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, the original unimproved value of all residence-sites shall be deemed to have been twenty pounds and of all business-sites sixty pounds, and in. respect of residencesites the present unimproved value of which does not exceed twenty pounds and of business-sites the present unimproved value of which does not exceed sixty pounds such present unimproved value shall be the price." Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913. Section 28, subsection (1) : That after the word " Hauraki " in the fourth line the words " Westland or Karamea " be inserted, and that after the word " district " in the same line the words " or lease under Part VIII of the principal Act granted prior to the coming into operation of this Act " be inserted. That the following words be added at the end of the subsection : " Every notice of intention to acquire the fee-simple under this section shall be referred by the Commissioner of Crown. Lands to the Warden for-his report as to whether the land affected is required for mining purposes." Section 29 : Subsection (1) —That all the words in the first paragraph down to and including the word "land" in the third line be deleted, and the following words substituted : " with respect to the fee-simple acquired under the last pre-