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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 72 (Supplement)

Every moment of time may be made to bear the burden of something which is eternal.

The Bill to be introduced by the Minister of Lands restoring the homestead system has been framed mainly on the lines of the previous Act, differing from it in only ,a few details. The Bill is now in thd hands of the printers. The homestead system provides for the setting apart of blocks of rural lands and their subdivision into individual holdings varying in area from fifty to seventy-five acres, according to quality. One main feature in the system, as it existed previously, was that an advance o r £2O towards the construction of a house could be obtained from the Govcrnment, and £2 10s per acre for bushfelling or grassing up to an area of twenty acres. It was a form of land settlement open to those practically w ithout capital*