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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75
Residence and Improvements
Residence and Improvements.
Under the two last-mentioned tenures, the conditions as to residence and improvements are:—
| (1.) | Must commence on bush or swamp lands within four
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years, and in open or partly open land within one year, from the date of selection: |
| (2.) | Must be continuous for six years on bush or swamp land, and for seven years on open or partly open land, on lands occupied with a right of purchase: |
| (3.) | Must be continuous for a term of ten years on lease-in-perpetuity lands. |
The Board has power to dispense with residence in certain cases, such as where the selector is residing on adjacent lands, or is a youth or unmarried woman living with parents, and in a few other cases.
Residence implies the erection of a habitable house to be approved of by the Board.
| (1.) | Cash-tenure lands must be improved within seven years to an amount of £1 an acre for first-class land, and 10s. an acre for second-class land. |
| (2.) | Lands held on lease with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity, must be improved to an amount equal to 10 per cent, of the value of the land within one year from the date of the license or lease; within two years must be improved to the amount of another 10 per cent.; within six years must be improved to the value of another 10 per cent., making 30 per cent, in all within the six years. In addition to the above, the land must be further improved to an amount of £1 an acre for first-class land, and on second-class land to an amount equal to the net price of the land, but not more than 10s. an acre. |
Improvements may consist of reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush, planting with trees or hedges, cultivation of gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, wells, water-tanks, water-races, sheep-dips, embankments or protective-works, or in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil; or the erection of any building, &c.; and cultivation includes the clearing of land for cropping, or clearing and ploughing for laying down with artificial grasses, &c.