GOLDMINING LEGISLATION.
It is proposed during tho approaching session to introduce some amending legislation to Parliament for the purpose of affording greater security of tenure to goldminers who have taken out or may henceforth take out what are known as occupation licenses. At present the tenure under these licenses is ten years' occupation, with the reservation to the Crown of the right of resuming the land at a moment's notice and without compensation should it be required for mining purposes. Residence being compulsory upon the lands taken up under these licenses, the miners complain bitterly of the uncertainty of their tenure, which they say deters them from putting up good houses or from making any systematic cultivation of the soil. The Government having considered these complaints and found that they were well founded, have resolved to amend either tho Land Act or the Mining Act in such a way as to afford greater encouragement for miners holding occupation licenses to make permanent improvements on their sections.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 30
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166GOLDMINING LEGISLATION. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 30
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