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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 66
Small Grazing Runs
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Small Grazing Runs.
The essential features in this system are—absolute lease for twenty-one years, without any right of determination on the part of the Government; full valuation for improvements at the end of the lease; the right to cultivate the land in addition to the exclusive right of pasturage; no right of purchase of any part of the land in the lease, but the right to select a hundred and fifty acres around the homestead, through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without payment of compensation to the lessee.
Runs not exceeding in area five thousand acres each may be put aside for grazing purposes, and let by public auction, on the following conditions:—
| (1.) | The lease shall be absolutely for twenty-one years, with the first offer at the end of that term of a renewal for a second term of twenty-one years. If the offer is refused, the lease is put up to auction, burdened with the valuation for improvements, which have to be paid by the incoming tenant to the Receiver of Land Revenue, and by him to the outgoing tenant when the transfer of occupancy of the run has been satisfactorily accomplished. In any case, where it is determined that the run shall not again be offered for further lease, the outgoing tenant shall be paid the value of his improvements by the Government. |
| (2.) | The lowest upset rent in the Land Districts of Auckland and Hawke's Bay will be 1½d. per acre; in Nelson and Marlborough, 3d.; in Taranaki, Wellingtan, Otago, Southland, and Westland, 6d.; and in Canterbury, 1s. |
| (3.) | No person will be allowed to lease more than one small run. |
| (4.) | Residence on the run is compulsory within twelve months of the commencement of the lease, and thereafter for six years, unless the lessee resides on land in his occupation within ten miles of the run leased by him. |
| (5.) | Improvements have to be effected equal in value to four years' rental by the end of the first six years of the lease, the only condition for the remainder of the term being payment of rent. |