✨ Proposed Land Regulations
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, 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,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. III. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1855. No. 5.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
April 4, 1855.
IN accordance with the provisions of the Waste Lands Act, 1854, the following Regulations, proposed by a Select Committee of the Provincial Council, for the Disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown, are published for general information.
By his Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.
PROPOSED LAND REGULATIONS
FOR THE PROVINCE OF NELSON.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
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For the purpose of managing the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the waste lands of the crown within the Province of Nelson, there shall be established a Waste Land Board.
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Such board shall consist of three persons, viz., of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, under the Crown Lands Ordinance, Session X., No. 1, of the Superintendent of the Province, who shall be ex-officio a member of the board, and of a third person, to be elected by and from the members of the Provincial Council.
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The duties of the Waste Land Board shall be, among other things, to divide the Province into counties, hundreds, and parishes, to make reserves for the sites of towns and villages, and for lines of internal communication, whether by roads, canals, railways, or otherwise; also for such places as appear fit to be reserved for quays and landing places, or for the general convenience of trade and navigation; or as places of military and naval defence; or as the sites of churches, court houses, markets, hospitals, prisons, or other public edifices; or as cemeteries, or as places fit to be reserved for the embellishment or health of towns, or for the recreation of the inhabitants thereof, or otherwise for any purpose of public utility, convenience, or enjoyment.
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It shall also be the duty of the Waste Land Board to set apart and reserve one thirty-sixth part of land, of average value, in every district, as an endowment for the purposes of education.
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It shall be the duty of the Waste Land Board to proclaim lands intended to be offered for sale, to give notice of the time when such sales will take place (in accordance with regulations hereinafter prescribed), to determine within certain limits the upset price at which such lands will be offered, and generally to act as the administrative body of the waste lands of the crown within the Province: provided, however, that all the less important and routine business of the office may be discharged by the Commissioner of Crown
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1855, No 5
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🗺️ Publication of Proposed Land Regulations for the Province of Nelson
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey4 April 1855
Waste Lands Act, Land Regulations, Nelson, Crown Lands, Waste Land Board
- S. L. Muller, Provincial Secretary