CLOSE SETTLEMENT
NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATION BILL READ A SECOND TIME SOME OF ITS PROVISIONS. (By Telegraph.-Press Ass6ciaUon.-Oopytlght.) (Received August 29, 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In the Legislative Assembly the Closer Settlement Bill was read a second time. It provides for declaring certain areas within fifteen miles of a railway or thirty miles of the River Murray to be landlocked areas. Unless the owners cultivate a certain area within a certain time a tax will be imposed. j The Bill also facilitates the cutting I up of estates by providing for the payment by Treasury Bills at 4 per centum. It also provides for annual payments by the settler, which payments will be collected by the Government and paid to the vendor, the Government issuing a negotiable certificate for the amount of the purchase money.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 52, 29 August 1913, Page 7
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