Under this class, also, rural agricultural land can be ob tained to the extent of six hundred and forty acres to each selection, the price being not less than £1 os for first class, and 7s 6d to £l per acre for second-class land. The period of payments extend to fourteen years, or twenty-eight equal instalments. Six years' com pulsory residence is necessary in the case of rural lauds, except where the selectiou is bush land, or the selector is residing on another similar section within three miles of the other. According to the class of land, conditions for cultivation, in ratio, and permanent improvements are laid down. The next system is the Perpetual Lease, a form of tenure that has met with groat under it the occupier enjoys an indefeas ible title, with right of perpetual re newal, which enables the land to pass from father to son like a freehold, without sinking all or any capital ia the actual purchase of the land. Anyone of the age of seventeen years may become a leaseholder, and the rental is one shilling per acre, or five per cent on the value of the land. No one who already owns er leases Crown lands of over six hundred and forty acres of first class, or two thousand acres of second-class land, can become a lessee under this system. Provision is made for the transfer, sub letting and mortgage) of the selec tions, and the land may be re sumed by the Government on pay ment of compensation. The resi dence and improvement regulations are very similar to those in the case of deferred-payment lands. Lessees roay acquire the freehold of their lands by purchase, on cer tain conditions being fulfilled. Town, suburban and village lands are sold by auction, small-farm allotments and rural lands are obtained by lot if more than one applicant applies for the same section. The next class is the Homestead System, under which the settler makes no payment for his land, except sur vey fees, and obtains the fee simple after five years' residence and ths performance of certain improve ments yearly. Any person of IS years of age can obtain from 75 to 50 acres; under that age, 20 to 30 acres, no single family, however, being allowed to hold more than from two hundred to three hundred acres. 