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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 66

Pastoral Runs

Pastoral Runs.

These are put up to auction, at an upset rent, not less than a year before the existing licenses or leases expire. No more land than is sufficient to carry twenty thousand sheep or five thousand head of cattle can be offered in one lot.

Pastoral lands are let, subject to the license being revoked on a year's notice being given that the land is required for sale or lease as agricultural or pastoral land. The licensee is not entitled to any compensation for revocation of his license. The licensee may select a homestead area of 150 acres, which cannot be resumed during the currency of his lease.

If a licensee does not re-acquire the license for his run when it is submitted to auction, he is entitled to compensation for improvements of necessary buildings, plantations, fences, and ditches for draining, provided that the compensation does not exceed three times the average annual rent paid under the existing lease or license. No claim for compensation can be made against the Crown or any Land Board.

Leases or licenses of pastoral lands may not exceed twenty-one years, and there is no restriction as to the number of leases anyone may hold.