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The amount of such annual contribution shall be one-half the 

 expenses of, or incidental to, the maintenance and repair of the rabbit- 

 proof fence as determined by the Local Land Board. 



Nothing contained in this section shall affect any right to an 

 annual contribution towards the cost of the maintenance and repair of 

 a rabbit-proof fence accrued under or by virtue of the provisions of 

 the Rabbit Act of 1890, and the Local Land Board shall have power 

 to assess and determine the amount of any such contribution. 



35. Where a private rabbit-proof fence, whether erected before The Crown to 

 or after the passing of this Act, forms a common boundary fence eon t ^ ll * e '" 

 between private and public lands, and particulars of such fence have 



been or shall be furnished to the Minister, the same contributions 

 shall be payable by the Crown in respect of rendering the fence 

 rabbit-proof as would he payable by; any private owner, and the 

 amount of such contributions shall be determined by the Local Land 

 Board in the same manner as if the said public lands were private 

 lands. 



36. Where fences within a Rabbit District have, before the Barrier fences erected 

 commencement of this Act, been rendered rabbit-proof by the 

 expenditure of moneys voluntarily contributed or paid for the purpose for. 



by any Stock Boards, or by any persons, the Rabbit Board of the 

 District may apply any moneys raised by rabbit rates Avithin the 

 District in repaying to the said Stock Boards or persons the moneys 

 so contributed or paid by them as aforesaid, or any part thereof, if, in 

 the opinion of such Board, the fences are barrier-fences within the 

 meaning of this Act. 



37. When a ring fence enclosing two or more holdings or any Formation of 

 portion or portions thereof is a rabbit-proof fence, made rabbit-proof e 10 "? 8 - 



by agreement between the owners of such holdings, the lands so 

 enclosed shall, with the consent of the Rabbit Board of the District, 

 form a group of holdings within the meaning and for the purposes of 

 this Act. 



Any existing fence or portion thereof may be adopted so as to 

 form part of the ring fence of any group, but not without the consent 

 of any owner of such fence or portion thereof whose holding thereby 

 becomes a holding forming part of the group. 



The Minister may agree that any public lands shall be included 

 within a group, and the Crown shall thereupon become liable in the 

 same way as the owner of any holding of private lands within the 

 group. 



The Rabbit Board may agree that any rabbit-proof fence 

 used or erected by it may be used for the purpose of the grouping 

 of holdings. 



Where any holding has been enclosed with a rabbit-proof fence, 

 and any part of the holding afterwards becomes the subject of any 

 homestead selection, purchase, or lease from the Crown, and is thereby 

 withdrawn from the holding so enclosed as aforesaid, the new holding 

 created by such homestead selection, purchase, or lease, and the residue 

 of the original holding shall be a group of holdings ; and any portion 

 subsequently withdrawn from the residue shall also be a holding 

 within the group. 



Any group of holdings constituted under the Rabbit Act of 

 1890 shall be a group of holdings within the meaning and for the 

 purposes of this Act. 



When the external boundaries of any holding or group of Person not coming 

 holdings have been Tnade rabbit-proof, the owner or owners thereof not'entMecUo 

 shall not be liable to contribute towards the cost of erecting or main- contribution. 

 taining and repairing a rabbit-proof fence around any holding or land 

 situate within such external boundaries as aforesaid, or towards the 



cost 



