fourteen-year-clause

Updated: August 21, 2026

To his thinking, the government's attempt to restrict the areas of sheep-runs, and to give effect to the "fourteen-year-clause" which limited the tenure, were acts of folly. The gold supply would give out as suddenly as it had begun; but sheep would graze there till the crack of doom the land was fit for nothing else. Mahony thought this point of view lopsided.

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix