Modified
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Tahiti Land Laws
From Our Own Correspondent.
PAPEETE, September 6.
THE decree of July 4, 1932, which re gulates all transfers of land in the Colony of French Oceania, has recently been modified in one or two important particulars. These alterations were con tained in a decree dated June 25, 1934, published in the September “Journal Officiel.”
The provisions essential for the protec tion of native interests are retained in this new legislation, but the Governor may now deliver his consent to a land sale 15 days after his receipt of the appli cation (instead of one month after its appearance in the “Journal Officiel” as before), and it is now no longer necessary to publish details. Apparently the object of the modifications is to avoid an un reasonable amount of delay and at the same time bring the provisions of the de cree more in accord with the general laws of France.