Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

(2.) Suburban lands,
(3.) Rural lands,
(4.) Special settlement lands,
(5.) Timber and mineral lands,
and may from time to time vary alter and annul any such division and make a new division thereof.

18. No town or suburban land to be offered for sale or disposed of by auction
    land to be offered for sale until surveyed
    or otherwise until it shall have been properly surveyed and marked off on the ground and a map thereof deposited in the Land Office as a record, and all reserves streets roads sections and allotments and other divisions of any such land shall be so marked off on the ground and distinguished on the map thereof as to be easily identified.

Reserves.

19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Government and for other public purposes of a specific character may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, be made by the Superintendent out of any waste lands, and shall not be alienated from the specific purposes to which they shall have been severally dedicated except under the provisions of "The Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full and complete description of every such reserve, and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated, shall forthwith be published in the Provincial Government Gazette, and shall also be set forth in the authenticated maps in the Land Office.

20. Reserves for public highways bridle-paths and footpaths shall be made by the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the authenticated maps of the Land Office; and the Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Act alter the line of any such highways bridle-paths or footpaths, and may dispose of the land theretofore used for the same.

21. In every town or village set apart, there shall be at least ten allotments, containing as nearly as may be half of an acre each, in the most eligible situations, as sites for places of worship; and as soon as any allotments in any such town or village have been declared open for sale, the Superintendent shall, by notification in the Provincial Government Gazette, invite the representatives of the several religious bodies recognized as having officiating ministers residing within the province, and coming within the provisions of the Marriage Act, who may wish to obtain sites for places of worship, to make application to the Commissioner on or before a day to be named in the notification for one of such allotments, and at Noon of the Monday following such day the priority of the right of selection shall be determined by lot by the Commissioner, in the presence of the applicants or their representatives, if any shall attend: Provided always that such applications shall be made within six months from the date of reservation, and that if no such applications be made, the reserves shall be dealt with as if no such reserves had been made.

22. Reserves of forest lands, and of lands known or supposed to contain coal or other valuable or useful minerals, shall be made out of waste lands in manner hereinafter provided.

23. All reserves heretofore made under any of the repealed Acts, and which have not yet been granted, and any reserves hereafter to be made under this Act, may, upon the request of the Superintendent, be granted by the Governor to any body corporate or to any person or persons gratuitously, to be held in trust for the public uses for which the same were reserved, and no other.

PART III.

SALES OF TOWN VILLAGE AND SUBURBAN LANDS.

24. Town village and suburban lands, excepting such as shall be reserved for public purposes or for any purpose in this Act specified, shall be offered for sale by public auction at such upset prices as shall from time to time be fixed by the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council.

25. The Superintendent shall from time to time notify in the Provincial Government Gazette, and in such newspapers in the Colony of New Zealand or elsewhere as he shall think fit, what lands are to be sold at such public sales, and the upset prices thereof respectively, and such lands shall not be so offered for sale until at least one calendar month shall have elapsed after the first publication of each notification.

26. Such public sale shall be held and conducted by such person, being an officer of the Government, at such times and in such places within the said province as the Superintendent shall, by notification in the Provincial Government Gazette, from time to time nominate and appoint.

27. The purchase money of each allotment of land sold at such sale shall be paid by the purchaser or his agent in manner following—namely, one-fourth of the price thereof at the time of sale by way of deposit, and the balance at any time within one calendar