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scot47 Jan 30th 2017 2:38 am
"Section"
 
Watching a TVNZ production about feuding neighbours I heard the frequent use of the term "section" which I had never come across before in this context. Is that an exclusively NZ usage ? (To mean "parcel of land".)

simonsi Jan 30th 2017 3:44 am
Re: "Section"
 
Section = plot Lol

Whether its exclusively NZ usage I wouldn't know but it is universal here.

Kotare Jan 30th 2017 4:41 am
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Used in the US, not sure about Oz.

BEVS Jan 30th 2017 7:21 am
Re: "Section"
 
Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 12165458)
Watching a TVNZ production about feuding neighbours I heard the frequent use of the term "section" which I had never come across before in this context. Is that an exclusively NZ usage ? (To mean "parcel of land".)
Hi scot47.

Yis! It means a plot of land.

Pulaski Jan 30th 2017 7:34 am
Re: "Section"
 
Originally Posted by Kotare (Post 12165659)
Used in the US, .....
Not in NC it isn't, nor as far as I know on the East Coast.

Kotare Jan 30th 2017 7:56 am
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'In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.['

Ok, different scale but the US is bigger :)

Pulaski Jan 30th 2017 8:02 am
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Originally Posted by Kotare (Post 12165818)
'In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.['

Ok, different scale but the US is bigger. ....
Ah, OK, I think I read about that last year in the context of even larger surveying blocks (of land), used by the federal government, but rarely used otherwise.

Baz036 Jan 30th 2017 12:10 pm
Re: "Section"
 
Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 12165458)
Watching a TVNZ production about feuding neighbours I heard the frequent use of the term "section" which I had never come across before in this context. Is that an exclusively NZ usage ? (To mean "parcel of land".)
Used the term 'plot' when we first arrived on the South Islands West Coast and way too many people thought we were looking for somewhere to grow cannabis - quickly took to using the term section after that.

Although we were a source of amusement to many.

BEVS Jan 30th 2017 3:54 pm
Re: "Section"
 
Originally Posted by Baz036 (Post 12165986)
Used the term 'plot' when we first arrived on the South Islands West Coast and way too many people thought we were looking for somewhere to grow cannabis -.
True, that.

Kotare Jan 30th 2017 4:03 pm
Re: "Section"
 
Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 12166092)
True, that.
I would have thought burial plot

carcajou Jan 30th 2017 9:20 pm
Re: "Section"
 
Have never heard "section" in Australia. "Block" used instead.

scot47 Feb 5th 2017 7:53 pm
Re: "Section"
 
Incidentally that TV programme might give the impression that there are a fair percentage of crazies living in NZ, constantly feuding with neighbours over cat poo and parking infringements.

Stuck in Auckland Feb 6th 2017 6:37 am
Re: "Section"
 
Originally Posted by Kotare (Post 12165659)
Used in the US, not sure about Oz.
OZ would confuse it with their section 32

Block is probably more close to their respective nick names

ie Chip and Head who appear to be cousins


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