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NEW SOUTH WALES. 



The following is a coinplete illustration of tlie metliod of payment 

 referred to. The figures refer to a conditional purchase of 40 acres 

 applied for on the ord September, 1891, at £1 jDcr acre : — 



A conditional purchase holder who may, for any year, be unable to 

 pay his instalment may obtain the Minister's permission to suspend 

 payment, in which case the interest alone is payable, or may itself 

 remain unpaid, and become part of the original debt. During the 

 period of suspension the holder must reside on the land. 



If of, or over, an area of 100 acres a conditional purchase may be 

 subdivided, and the balance paid up on one or more of the blocks into 

 which the land has been subdivided. 



In certain circumstances a conditional jourchase may be converted 

 into a homestead selection. 



An original conditional purchase cannot be transferred until the 

 conditions of the first five years are certified to have been fulfilled. 



Conditional Lease. 

 Any applicant for, or holder of, a conditional purchase applied for 

 since the 1st January, 1885, is entitled to hold adjoining land under 

 conditional lease. With an application for a conditional lease a deposit 

 of 2d. per acre and a survey fee as for an additional conditional purchase 

 are payable. A conditional lease may comprise up to three times the 

 area of the purchase by virtue of which it is applied for, and the total 

 area of conditionally purchased and conditionally leased land may reach 

 1,280 acres in the Eastern, and cannot exceed 2,560 acres in the 



