✨ Agricultural Lease Regulations
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XII.] TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1865. [No. XXIII.]
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, May 2, 1865.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Regulations, under which Agricultural Leases will be granted on the West Canterbury Gold Field.
W.M. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.
AGRICULTURAL LEASES ON THE WEST CANTERBURY GOLD-FIELD.
REGULATIONS.
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Every Application for an Agricultural Lease must be made (in the form of the Schedule hereunto annexed, or to the like effect) through the Warden of the District, wherein the land is situate, and must be accompanied by a Deposit of Five pounds (£5) to cover the costs of survey. The balance, if any, of such deposit, will be returned after the application has been finally dealt with.
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The boundaries of the area applied for must be marked out on the ground by trenches, and substantial posts at each corner thereof.
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Every such area must be rectangular in form, unless a creek or river or other natural obstacle renders a deviation from the rectangular form necessary.
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As soon as possible after the receipt of any Application and Deposit as aforesaid, the Warden will instruct a Surveyor to proceed to the ground for the purpose of examining, surveying, and reporting upon the same.
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Agricultural Leases will not be granted for lands within the boundaries of proclaimed townships or public reserves, nor for any area including a permanent watercourse, or which may present auriferous indications upon survey; and in all cases a public roadway, one chain in width, will be reserved along the margins of streams and rivers.
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Agricultural Leases will not be transferable without the special sanction and authority of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and for every such transfer a fee or fine of One Pound (£1) will be charged.
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The Government reserves to itself the right to survey through any land held under an agricultural lease, such roads as may be deemed essential for public convenience, and to throw them open to public traffic, subject to the allowance of valuation for improvements, and for any standing and growing crops which may be in or upon such line of road, at the period when possession thereof is taken by the Government.
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The rent charged shall be at the rate of Five shillings (5s.) per acre, payable yearly in advance, and any fractional part of an acre will be considered as an acre, and charged accordingly.
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The Government reserves to itself the right of entering upon any land so leased as aforesaid, for the purpose of searching for gold, or any other metal or mineral, and of determining any lease when such metals or minerals shall have been discovered thereon.
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In the event of the determination of any agricultural lease on account of the highly auriferous nature of the land thereby...
Vol. 12.—No. 23.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 23
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🗺️ Regulations for Agricultural Leases on West Canterbury Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey2 May 1865
Agricultural Leases, West Canterbury Gold Field, Land Regulations, Survey, Rent
- WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Provincial Secretary