✨ Land Settlement Regulations
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Crown Lands Office,
Napier, Nov. 3, 1860.
THE Commissioner of Crown Lands publishes the following extracts from the "Waste Lands Act, 1858," (proclaimed by His Excellency the Governor on the 15th February, 1860, as having received the assent of Her Majesty the Queen, and the "Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1858,") for the information of Military and Naval Settlers resident within the Province of Hawke's Bay:—
Waste Lands Act, 1858, Clause XV.—"Whereas it is desirable to encourage the settlement of Naval and Military settlers throughout the Northern Island of New Zealand': Be it therefore further enacted, that Naval and Military Officers, whether on full or half pay, and every non-commissioned officer and private, marine and seaman, whether belonging to Her Majesty's service or to the service of the East India Company, who may retire or obtain his discharge from the service to which he may belong; or who having retired or obtained his discharge for the purpose of settling in the Provinces of New Plymouth or Wellington, has not selected land under any former law or regulation enabling Naval and Military settlers to select land free of cost, shall be entitled to land free of cost in the said Provinces respectively, in like manner and upon the same terms and conditions as Naval and Military settlers are entitled to land free of cost under the 'Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1858'; And the several powers and duties of the Commissioner appointed under the said Act, in respect of land to be so granted, shall be exercised and performed by any Commissioner of Crown Lands in the said several Provinces of New Plymouth and Wellington."
Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1858, Extract from Clause 80.—
Commissioned Officer..................400 acres
Non-commissioned and Warrant Officer...................................... 80 "
Private Soldier, Marine, and Seaman......................................... 60 "
Clause 81,—"Provided always, that any such officer, non-commissioned officer, and private, and any marine and seaman, before he shall be entitled to receive any such land order, shall prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, by certificate or otherwise, that he retired or obtained his discharge for the purpose of settling in the Province of Auckland; and any non-commissioned officer or private, marine or seaman, shall at the same time produce to the Commissioner a certificate from the officer under whom he may have served, of having during his period of service been of good character: Provided also, that any such land order shall be applied for within twelve calendar months next after such retirement or discharge as aforesaid, or within three months from the passing of this Act, by those who have retired or been discharged.
H. S. TIFFEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1860, No 30
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🗺️ Information for Military and Naval Settlers regarding land grants under Waste Lands Acts
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey3 November 1860
Waste Lands Act, Military Settlers, Naval Settlers, Land grants, Hawke's Bay, Crown Lands
- H. S. Tiffen, Commissioner of Crown Lands