AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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PROCLAMATION.

By Joseph May, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers and authority vested in the Superintendent under the 56th section of "The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1867," I do hereby revoke the notification issued by John Williamson, Esquire, the Superintendent of the said Province, on the 6th day of May, 1868, whereby the lands in the Blocks specified in the Schedule thereunder written, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette No. 25, dated 8th May, 1868, were set apart and reserved for Special Settlement.

Given under my hand, at Auckland this eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

Joseph May,
Deputy-Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

By Joseph May, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in the Superintendent by "The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1870," I do hereby proclaim and declare that all that parcel of land hereinafter mentioned shall be opened for bond fide occupation, under the provisions of the said Act, on and after Friday the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

Given at Auckland, under my hand and the Public Seal of the Province, this nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

Joseph May,
Deputy-Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

All that portion of the Hoteo Block, containing 12,500 acres, more or less, situated in the Kaipara District, County of Marsden, and being bounded towards the north-west by the Oruawharo Block; towards the north-east by the Pakiri Block and the Hoteo River; towards the south by the Chalmerston Settlement; and towards the west by the Pahi River and Kaipara Harbour; Landing and other Reserves excepted.

Application for any of the land set forth above must be made to the Resident Surveyor, Mr. Laurence Cussens, on the Block.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 19th October, 1871.

The following Regulations for the occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown under "The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1870," are published for general information.

Joseph May,
Deputy-Superintendent.

REGULATIONS FOR THE OCCUPATION OF WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN UNDER "THE AUCKLAND WASTE LANDS ACT, 1870."

1. On and after a certain day upon which the whole or any part of the Waste Lands of the Crown shall have been proclaimed open for bond fide occupation, every person of eighteen years of age and upwards taking possession of any of the said land shall make written application to, and cause such application to be lodged with, the District Surveyor of the locality in which the land so proclaimed is situate, or such other person and at such place as the Superintendent shall from time to time appoint.

2. Every such application as aforesaid shall be made during office hours (viz., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and shall state the name of the applicant and shall describe the situation and number of acres he has taken possession of, together with the date whereon he took possession of the same, as also the name or names of the person or persons in whose favour the land is applied for; and no application shall be received for a less area than 40 acres. Provided always that not more than 200 acres can be held or occupied by any number of persons living together in one household.

3. The District Surveyor, or other person, to be appointed as aforesaid, shall, on receipt of any such application (and in the presence of the applicant or of the person presenting such application) enter in a book to be kept for that purpose, a minute of the receipt of such application, and shall give a receipt for the same.

4. The minutes to be so entered in such book shall be consecutively numbered from one upwards; and shall set forth the date and hour of the reception of every such application the name of the applicant and the area and situation of the land of which he has taken possession.

5. Such book shall be open to the public for inspection during office hours, and any person may take a copy of any minute entered therein.

6. Where it shall appear that but one application has in manner aforesaid been received for any one piece of land, the person or persons making such application shall be deemed to be in possession of and entitled to occupy the same.

7. But if at any time two or more applications be simultaneously received for one and the same piece of land, or any part thereof, the District Surveyor, or other person to be appointed as aforesaid, shall at once, in the presence of the applicants, or of the persons presenting such applications, decide by lot the priority of choice.

8. Every such application made as aforesaid must, so far as the features of the country will permit, be of a rectangular form, and when fronting on a road, river, lake or coast be of a depth not less than three times the length of the frontage; but no selection must be made so as to monopolise the wood or water in any particular locality. Provided always that under special circumstances the Waste Lands Commissioner may permit occupants to complete their selections by the purchase at the rate of 10s per acre of adjoining lands in blocks, of irregular shape and of small extent.

9. Every occupant of the land so selected shall have the same surveyed at his own expense by an approved Surveyor, and shall deliver, or cause to be delivered at the Waste Lands Office within six months after taking possession of and occupying such land, a correct plan of the same.

10. Where land shall be selected for occupation in any part of a district in which roads shall not have been determined on and laid out, such selections must be made subject to the right of Government to lay out such roads over the said land when required.