ABSTRACT
Not one of these experiments was a complete success. On the other hand. two of them. New South Wales and Western Australia. were complete in their failure. In the remainder of the mainland States. success or failure seemed to emerge in proportion to the presence or absence of checks on free selection. For example. Victoria succeeded after the checks of Grant's Act in 1869. yet encountered nothing but failure under the previous Acts in which the element of control was not stressed so much. Hence. at the close of the period. the emphasis everywhere was on checks - not restrictive checks such as hindered settlement in Queensland. but checks which were powerful enough to exclude speculators and yet testify to the bona fides of a selector without impeding him.
