VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS AND FREEHOLDS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6383, 26 November 1890, Page 4

VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS AND FREEHOLDS.

pro THE BDITOB.I Slß,—Having been asked by a village settler (whose name I cannot recollect) what provision of the law prevents the holder of an allotment under Village Homestead Special Settlement Begulations from acquiring the freehold/ will you permit me, for the information of the settler in question and others interested, to say that the provision referred to will be found in section 14 of “The Land Acts Amendment Act 1888." This runs as follows !

“ (14) Notwithstanding anything contained in section three of the Amendment Act (i e., Land Act of 1887) the Governor may from time to time declare under the said section three that any land heretofore or hereafter to be set apart for village settlements shall be open for sale and selection in manner and subject as mentioned in the said section ; and all lands notified as aforesaid under the said section three, and this section, shall be open for selection as village settlements under section six of the Amendment Act." “There shall he excepted, however, from any notification to be made under this section, all lands which are now held under certain regulations made the first day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty six, whereby money advancers for the erection of houses are authorised to be made to the settlers in settlements to which the said regulations apply.” I am, &c., Wm. J. Stewaed.