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RETURN shewing the Quantities of the principal kinds of Provisions imported into
Kaipara, from the 5th day of October, 1855, to the 5th day of January, 1856.

F. D. Fenton,
Sub-Collector,
H. M. Customs, Kaipara, January 5, 1856.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
January 10th, 1856.

THE following proposed Land Regulations are published for general information in conformity with the provisions of
an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled, the “Waste Lands Act,” 1854.

J. Logan Campbell,
Superintendent.

Regulations for the Sale, Letting, Occupation, and Disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Auckland.

1. From and after the ___ day of 1856, the Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be disposed of in the manner and according to the regulations hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise.

2. Nothing herein contained shall affect any promise or engagement made heretofore by or on behalf of Her Majesty, with, or to any person respecting any of the said lands, or be construed as intending to prevent the fulfillment or performance thereof.

3. The Governor of the said Colony may, from time to time, and as to him it shall seem meet, reserve portions of the said lands for the use and benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of such Province, and for any purposes of public safety.

4. The Superintendent of the said Province may, from time to time and as to him it shall seem meet, reserve portions of the said lands for public roads or other internal communications, whether by land or water, or for the sites of future towns or villages, or for the sites of places of worship, schools, or other public buildings, and for the purpose of endowments for such schools, or as places for the interment of the dead, or for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of any town or village, or as the sites of public quays, or landing-places, on the sea coast, or shores of navigable streams, or for any other purpose of convenience, health, or enjoyment.

5. Such Superintendent shall and may, from time to time and whensoever, and as often as to him it shall seem meet, divide the said Waste Lands into Town Lands, Suburban Lands, and Country Lands, and vary, alter, or annul such division, and make a new division thereof.

6. Subject to the provision herein contained, Town Lands and Suburban Lands, and such of the Country Lands as the Superintendent shall in that behalf appoint, shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of, except by way of public auction.

7. Such public sales shall be holden and conducted by such person, and at such times, and in such places within the said Province as the Superintendent shall, in that behalf, from time to time, by notification in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, nominate and appoint.

8. The upset prices of the lands to be sold at such public sales shall be fixed from time to time by the Superintendent.

9. The Superintendent shall, from time to time, notify through such Gazette what lands are to be sold at such public sales, and the upset prices thereof respectively, and such lands shall not be so offered to public sale until one calendar month shall have elapsed from and after the first publication of such notification as aforesaid.

   The purchase money of every allotment of land sold at such public sales shall be paid by the purchaser thereof or his agent unto such person as the Governor shall appoint to receive the same; one moiety thereof to be paid at the time of sale, and the other moiety to be paid within one calendar month from and after such time. In the event of the second moiety of such purchase money not being paid unto the person so appointed to receive the same within the said calendar month, such sale shall be void, and the first moiety shall thereupon be forfeited to the Crown.

Country Lands.

10. Subject to the provisions hereinafter in that behalf contained, all Country Lands shall be sold at the fixed price of ten shillings an acre, excepting such parts thereof as shall be reserved for public purposes or sale by auction and in manner aforesaid, or as shall contain less than forty acres.

11. Such Country Lands shall be sold by such person as the Superintendent shall in that behalf from time to time nominate and appoint.

12. The Superintendent shall and may from time to time notify through the Auckland Provincial Gazette what blocks of Country Lands are to be sold at such fixed price, and the days on and after which the same shall be respectively open to sale, provided that none of the said blocks, excepting such as have been heretofore declared open for sale or settlement, shall be so offered for sale until one calendar month shall have elapsed from and after such notifying thereof as aforesaid.

13. As soon as the Superintendent shall have so notified that any block of such lands will be open to sale on and after a certain day, any person desirous of purchasing any surveyed or unsurveyed allotment of not less than forty acres in such block, may by himself or his agent give notice in writing of such his intention, unto the person so appointed to sell the same; and such notice shall contain the name of the intending purchaser, the area and situation of the allotment, and a description of its boundaries.

14. In the case of such allotment being unsurveyed and fronting on a river, road, lake, or coast, it must be as nearly as possible of a rectangular form.