(Cheers.)
Three cheers were then given for the Chairman, and three more for the
Queen, and the meeting terminated.
THE LAND QUESTION
The adjustment of the English land laws to Australian requirements was a
difficult task. The question was discussed in New South Wales in 1855,
but South Australia, under the leadership of Torrens, was the first to
effect reform (1859).
LAND QUESTION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
+Source.+--Speeches on the Reform of the Law of Real Property (Torrens,
1858), pp. 5-6, 8-11
Extract from an address to the Electors of the City of Adelaide
delivered in the Theatre on 31st January, 1857. (From the South
Australian Register of February 2nd, 1857).
The next topic which I have put down to address you upon, is one with
respect to which I should have wished to have had time to arrange my
thoughts--it is the cheapening of the law of Conveyancing of real
property. (Applause.) Next to affording fair facilities for obtaining
possession of the waste lands of the Crown, and converting them into
cornfields and homesteads of independent yeomanry, it is the duty of
the State to afford a cheap and at the same time a secure mode of
conveying that property from man to man.
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