CONDITIONS FOR OCCUPYING CROWN LANDS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 71, 15 December 1880, Page 4

CONDITIONS FOR OCCUPYING CROWN LANDS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

The following information in respect to deferred payment land has been printed and circulated by the Crown Lands Department. It bear 3 date September, 1880:— 1. The license shall in the case of «utrarban land be for a period of five years,- and in the case of rural land shall be for a period of ten years, to be reckoned froth the next first day of January' or July following the date thereof and shall in addition include the period between the date of the license and such day. 2. The yearly fee in respect of such license shall in the case of suburban land be an amount equal to one-fifth of the price of ,the land, and in the case of rural land be an amount equal to one-tenth of the price of the land ; and shall be payable in equal parts half-yearly in advance, on the first day of January and the first day of July in each year, to the Receiver of Land Revenue. 3. The deposit paid at the time of application shall be in discharge of the license fee due on the next first day of January or July following the date of the license, as the case may be. In cases where land has been submitted to auction, then the aforesaid deposit, logeVber- wlfcl* feW pi'oporh\on oi the increased price obtained fov the land at auction, paid forthwith after the auction, shall be in discharge of the aforesaid license fee. 4. The selector shall, within six months after the issue of the license, personally reside on the land, and shall continue so to reside in the case of suburban land for a period of four years, and in the case of rural land for a period of six years, from the issue of the license ; bufc the Board may, if it shall think fit, give permission in writing dispensing with personal residence for the first four years from the date of the license if the land is rural land wholly or mostly covered with bush. Pevsonal residence may also be dispensed with in the cases hereinafter mentioned in section 64, viz. : " Whenever any two persons who have obtained licenses to occupy Crown lands set apart for ssttlement on deferred payments Bhall have lawfully intermarried at some period not sooner than twelve months from the issue of the last of such licenses, it snail be lawful for the Board to authorise such persons to reside on such one of the allotments so selected as the Board thinks fit." 5. The selector shall, within one year from the date of his license, bring into cultivation nob less than one-twentieth of the land if rural land, and one-tenth if suburban land. 6. Tbe selector shall, within two years from the date of his license, bring into cultivation not less than one-tenth of the land if rural, and one-fifth if suburban land. P. K 2he selector shall, witihiu four years from the date of his license, bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the land if rural land ; and in the case of suburban land shall have enclosed the whole of his allotment with a substantial fence, and shall have cultivated at least three-fourths of the land, and shall have made substantial improvements thereon to the value of at least ten pounds for every acre of such land. 8. The selector of a rural allotment shall, within six. years from the date of his hcensei m addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial implements of a permanent nature on the land to the value of one pound for every acre of such land. 9. The selector of a suburhan allotment shall at any time after the expiration of five years, and the selector of a rural allotment shall at any time after the expiration of six years^ upon having complied with all the conditions of his license during the currency thereof, a»3 upon obtaining a certificate from the board as provided in section 73 of the Land Act, 1877, be entitled to the right to a grant of the land, on payment of so much of the price thereof, if any, as shall remain unpaid. 10. For a breach of any of the conditions numbered from two to nine inclusive, the right of the selector to bold and to acquire the land described in hh license shall he forfeited. 11. No selector whosß !&»/! &d}o2as land held under pastoral lease or license shall be entitled to bring any claim for damages done on any part of the land held by him, by trespass of any horses, cattle, or sheep belonging to any pastoral ieuant of the CrOTOB, TMaifeß* H>6 >i»?3 so trespassed on shall have been enclosed with a good and substantial fence. By section 9 of the Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879, any selector who Bhall at any time after three years have completed the improvements enumerated in subsections 5 fco 8 inclusive of section 63 of the Land Act, 1877, anything in subsection 9 of section 63 of that Act notwithstanding, shall be entitled to the right to a grant of the land on payment of so much of the price thereof, if any, as shall remain unpaid.