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".)

Section = plot Lol

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

Used in the US, not sure about Oz.

Hi scot47.

Yis! It means a plot of land.

Not in NC it isn't, nor as far as I know on the East Coast.

'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.

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.

True, that.

I would have thought burial plot

Have never heard "section" in Australia. "Block" used instead.

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.

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