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tenants till the following September. As a matter 

 of fact, it was three years before some of them 

 completed their purchase by paying down the 

 one-fifth of the purchase money, which they did 

 by instalments. 



A value was placed on each holding which it 

 was calculated would recoup the County Council in 

 forty years from the date of the completion of the 

 purchase for the purchase money and the expense 

 in adaptation. This value works out at from 32 

 to 50 per acre for the various lots. The yearly 

 instalment payable of capital and interest combined 

 comes to l 10s. to 2 an acre, which is less than 

 the average rent of the district for land in small 

 quantities. 



There are now twenty-five occupiers in all, three 

 of the men holdin g two lots and two of them three 

 lots. All the instalments have been paid up to 

 date, and the land transferred to the purchasers 

 at the Land Registry. The men who were able 

 from the first to become purchasers by paying 

 down their instalments have always paid up well. 

 The instalments are collected half-yearly by a 

 special surveyor, who reports on the state of the 

 holdings as to cultivation, repairs, etc. There has 

 been one case of failure where a man did not 

 cultivate his holding properly and did sublet it 

 contrary to agreement ; after due warning, his land 

 was sold and allotted to another. 



There have also been two cases where, after 

 some years, the original purchasers have wished to 



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