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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
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By His Honor's command,
J. C. RICHMOND, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XI. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1863. No. 31.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1863.
The Eleventh Session of the Provincial Council was opened this day, at One o'clock, upon which the following Address of the Superintendent was delivered :—
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
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The meeting of the General Assembly, which is ordered to take place within a few weeks, has imposed on me the necessity of assembling you on the present occasion in order that I may, in accordance with the intimation made to you at the commencement of your last Session, submit for your consideration such proposals for amending the Land Regulations as the future welfare of the Province appears to me to require.
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A draft of amended regulations will therefore at once be submitted to you. It will be found to contain the most important features of the regulations aproved by you in your ninth Session, and which were passed by the House of Representatives, but rejected by the Legislative Council, chiefly, I understand, in consequence of the late period of the Session at which they were introduced to that branch of the Legislature.
In addition to the alterations which received your approval in the Session referred to, the new regulations provide that every description of land within the Province, when required, shall be assessed for sale by the Waste Land Board, and, with one exception, submitted to auction. That exception provides that Rural Land required for immediate occupation may be obtained at all times, by persons requiring it, at the fixed price of forty shillings per acre.
This departure from the auction system will, I believe, on the whole, prove beneficial, for, although I have endeavored as far as possible to remove the only valid objection I know of to that system of land sales by keeping the surveys well in advance, and having a large number of sections in various parts of the Province ready for sale at fixed prices, still cases have occurred in which land has been required for immediate settlement in districts where no surveys had been made; I hope, therefore, by the alteration proposed, to meet the requirements of newly arrived settlers, by affording to them the opportunity of acquiring land, immediately on their arrival, in any part of the Province, without waiting for an extended survey of the district where it is situated, or the delay necessary
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1863, No 31
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🏘️ Opening of the Eleventh Session of the Provincial Council and Superintendent's Address
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government29 September 1863
Provincial Council, Superintendent, Land Regulations, Waste Land Board, Nelson Province
- J. C. Richmond, Provincial Secretary