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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 61

Homestead System

Homestead System.

In accordance with the land regulations, the settler makes no payment for the land, the only cost to him being the expense of the survey. On the fulfilment of the conditions, which are five years' residence, the erection of a house, and the cultivation of one-third of the section, if open land, and one-fifth, if bush land, the Crown grant is issued. The conditions regulating the quantity of land to an individual are these: Each person of the age of eighteen years or upwards may select from fifty to seventy, five acres, in accordance with the quality of the land; and a person under eighteen years of age twenty to thirty acres, provided that no family or household shall have more than two hundred acres of first-class, or three hundred acrcs of second-class land.