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ˌfree-seˈlector Austral.
One who takes up a block of crown-land under the Land Laws and by annual payments acquires the freehold (Morris). Also called simply selector.
1866Sydney Morn. Her. 9 Aug. (Morris), The very law which the free selector puts in force against the squatter. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. III. 260 He made a spring at the free-selector. 1883Keighley Who are You 79 Far apart stood free-selectors' huts.
So free-seˈlect v. trans., to take up (land) under Government; hence free-selecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; free-seˈlection, the action of the vb.
1870T. H. Braim New Homes ii. 87 A man can now go and make his free selection before survey of any quantity of land..at twenty shillings an acre. 1884Boldrewood Melb. Mem. xix. 134 Had he proceeded to free-select an uninhabited island. Ibid. xx. 142 This was years before the free-selection discovery. 1890― Col. Reformer (1891) 321, I camped..just below those free-selecting friends of yours. Ibid. 401 Free-selecting here might be very well for some people; it didn't suit them. |