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                    [0] => This series covers the management of Crown land leases and licences within the Wellington Land District area administered under the Lands Act 1924 and 1948. These files contain information on the terms and conditions of tenure, and also considerable detail on the land (etc) subject to that tenure.
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            [name] => Wellington Land Tenure Files
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	Before 1948 Crown leases and licences were issued under many Acts and Regulations. In 1948 the land laws were amended and consolidated in a Land Act which repealed 78 other Acts or parts of Acts.

	A lease (commonly called a tenancy) was an interest in land for a fixed term. Under a lease the lessee had exclusive right of possession of the land. Under a licence the licensee merely had the right to do some act in relation to the licensor's land which would otherwise be unlawful.

	Each type of tenure had a different alphabetical abbreviation, which formed part of the file classification system. The files were arranged alphabetically by these prefixes, and numerically within each tenure type.

	Examples of some tenure type abbreviations were as follows:

	RL – Renewable Lease

	DP – Deferred Payment Licence

	WDF - Deferred Payment Licence

	S – Special Lease

	LP – Lease in Perpetuity

	LS – Lease in Perpetuity

	SR - Scenic Reserve Leases

	TR – Town Reserve Lease – ex Harbour Board

	APL – Arthur's Pass Lease

	LG – Grazing Lease

	LO – Licence to Occupy

	MR – ex Railways Land Disposals

	MOSS – Railway sales

	RES - Reserves

	The files prior to 1987 had originally included a District Code as part of file reference (e.g. NA = Napier, NP =  New Plymouth, PN = Palmerston North, WN = Wellington, NL = Nelson, BL = Blenheim, etc.).

	In the series listing only the personal or company name on the lease or licence has been listed, even though most titles on the files contained a block name or a legal land description.

	 W5683 and W5717

	Files in accession W5683 and W5717 were inherited by the Department of Conservation's Wanganui Conservancy who controlled these files until transferred to Archives New Zealand in 2010.
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Roughly alphanumeric order. The files are arranged alphabetically by tenure type abbreviation code, and then numerically within each tenure type.
            [seriesAccessContacts] => 

	Requests for special access during the restricted period should be addressed to:

	Manager Support Services

	Landcorp Farming Ltd

	15 Allen Street, Te Aro

	PO Box 5349

	WELLINGTON 6145

	New Zealand

	Central telephone:  +64 4 381 4050

	Central email:  enquiries@landcorp.co.nz

	Accessions W5683 and W5717

	

	For access to restricted records please contact:

	Knowledge and Information Manager

	Department of Conservation

	Whare Kaupapa Atawhai / Conservation House

	PO Box 10420

	Wellington 6143

	New Zealand

	Central Department of Conservation email:  enquiries@doc.govt.nz

	Central Department of Conservation telephone:  +64 4 471 0726
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => 

	For reasons of personal privacy, all land tenure case files transferred by Landcorp Investments Ltd, or its agents, are restricted for 40 years from the date of file closure.

	

	Land tenure case files transferred by Landcorp Investments Ltd, or its agents, are open to authorised government agencies; currently Land Information New Zealand.

	W5683 and W5717

	To protect the personal privacy of individuals all land tenure case files transferred from the Department of Conservation's Wanganui Conservancy are restricted for 40 years from the date of file closure.

	 

	 
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