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Central Division. The lease has a terra o£ twenty-eight years, subicct 

 to payment of an annnal rent as appraised by the Land Board', and to 

 the fulfilment of such conditions as apply to an additional conditional 

 purchase. Pending appraisement of rent, a provisional rent of 2d. j)cr 

 acre is payable. The rent, which is calculated from the date of 

 application having-^ regard to the fact that the lessee may enter into 

 immediate occupation, is payable annually in advance, and is subject 

 (on the application of the lessee or at the instance of the Minister) 

 to reappraisement at the expiration of fifteen years, the new rent 

 applying to the balance of the term. The lessee is entitled to convert 

 his lease wholly or partly into an additional conditional jnn-chasc at 

 any time during its currency, and to continue to hold the balance 

 under lease. Although, therefore, in the Eastern ]^ivision a con- 

 ditional purchase cannot be applied for in excess of OiO acres, double 

 this area may be secured by the agency of a conditional lease. 



Tenant-right in improvements is given to the last holder of an 

 expired lease, and the Governor may concede it where the lease has 

 been forfeited or surrendered. 



Condition of Rpsiclencp attaclied to Conditional Purchasvs and 

 Conditional Leases. 



The term of residence is computed so as to expire ten years from 

 the date of application, and although the applicant may enter into 

 residence immediately, he is not required to do so until his applicaticni 

 has been confirmed by the Land Board. He then has three months' 

 grace to do so. Residence is defined as '''continuous and bond tidr. 

 living on the land as the holder's u.sual home without any other 

 habitual residence." 



A separate condition of residence attaches to every additional con- 

 ditional purchase or conditional lease, but in this connection certain 

 cjualifications have to be pointed out. 



An original conditional purchase and any additional conditional 

 purchases and conditional leases of the same series are treated as one 

 holding, so that no alteration of the original ^>/are of r^sidence is 

 necessary. 



The new condition of residence is abrogated altogether so long as the 

 additional conditional purchase or lease is held by the same person who 

 applied for the original conditional purchase ; but this exemption will 

 not apply if the holder has previously taken up or is the owner under 

 conditional purchase or conditional lease of 1,280 acres in the Eastern 

 Division, 2,560 acres in the Central Division, <n- 1,020 acres partly in 

 two or more divisions. 



Even although the holder of the additional conditional purchase or 

 lease may not be identical with the original selector, if he has, prior to 

 taking up the additional area, been continuously resident on the earlier 

 selections, his previous term of residence will be calculated in reduc- 

 tion of the new term, but in no case will he receive credit for more than 

 five years. 



These provisions are calculated to relieve the t/moi fide resident from 

 unnecessary conditions, while at the same time they provide a check 

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