advantage may require it, along the banks of
navigable rivers, or along an available coast
line, or otherwise, so as to prevent the undue
monopoly of timber, or of road or water front-
age.

IX. In all blocks reserved as townships and
agricultural settlements (except always the
special small farm reserves), no land shall be
sold until it has been accurately surveyed, al-
lotted and mapped, and each allotment dis-
tinguished by appropriate marks on the
ground; nor shall any allotment exceed three
hundred and twenty acres in extent.

Applications.

X. The general register of applications for
land, and the local registers, where such shall
exist, shall be open to the inspection of the
public daily during office hours; and any
one may take a copy of any application from
such register, or of any other entry therein.

XI. All applications made upon the same
day shall, for the purpose of the following
rule, be deemed simultaneous applications.

XII. In cases where simultaneous applica-
tions shall be made for a piece of land, an
auction shall be held as between the appli-
cants, the land named in the application being
put up at the upset price of ten shillings per
acre, and the application shall be registered in
the name of the person who shall bid and pay
the highest price: Provided that either or all
of the conflicting applications may be with-
drawn.

XIII. A return of every application received
and registered, distinguishing the name of the
applicant, extent of land purchased, payments
made, and any other particulars necessary for
the full information of the public, shall be
made monthly by the Commissioner, and pub-
lished in the Provincial Government Ga-
zette.

Auction Sales.

XIV. No sales by auction, excepting sales
provided for by clause XII, shall take place
unless the same shall have been notified
by Proclamation of the Superintendent in
the Government Gazette, specifying the several
allotments to be offered for sale, with the con-
tents of each: Provided always, that no allot-
ment shall be offered for sale unless the same
shall have been first staked out upon the ground
and distinguished by an appropriate number
or mark upon a plan open to public inspec-
tion: And provided also that no allotment,
the upset price whereof shall be five shillings
per acre, shall exceed 640 acres in extent.

REGULATIONS
FOR THE LICENSED OCCUPATION OF THE PUBLIC
PASTURE LANDS OF THE PROVINCE OF WEL-
LINGTON.

I. All persons requiring occupation licenses
for unoccupied portions of the Public Pasture
Lands of the Province of Wellington, or for
portions of the same now in their occupation,
shall lodge with the Land Commissioner of

the district in which such run is situated, a
description thereof, in the form or to the ef-
fect of Schedule A.

II. Every applicant shall, at the time of
lodging such description, pay to the Commis-
sioner a cash deposit according to the follow-
ing scale, viz. :-
£25 for runs described as under 10,000 acres
£50 ditto ditto over ditto ditto

III. All applications which shall have been
regularly made, and in respect of which the
required deposit shall have been paid, shall be
immediately filed and registered in the Com-
missioner's Office; and the register of all
such applications shall be open to public in-
spection within office hours.

IV. The Commissioner shall publish, with-
out delay, in the Government Gazette for the
Province of Wellington, the description of
every run thus applied for, together with the
name of the applicant and the amount paid in
deposit.

V. The Commissioner shall have power to
hear and decide on all applications, and also
all objections thereto, as well as all disputes in
respect of conflicting applications.

VI. All objections must be brought before
the Commissioner within three months after
the date of the publication above referred to,
and the ground of objection must be stated in
writing; and no objection shall be entertained
unless laid before him prior to the lapse of this
period.

VII. In the event of any objection being
duly laid before the Commissioner within the
prescribed time, it shall be his duty to appoint
by publication in the said Gazette, as early a
day for hearing and determining the claims
of the respective parties as shall be compati-
ble with a sufficient notice.

VIII. It shall be the duty of the Commis-
sioner to hear and determine all such objec-
tions and conflicting applications, and also all
disputes between holders of pasture occupation
licenses, regarding the boundaries of their
respective runs in open Court, to be held in
the districts where the runs in dispute are
situated.

XI. All applications made upon the same
day shall be deemed to be simultaneous appli-
cations, and the priority thereof shall be
decided by lot.

X. The Commissioner may at any time re-
quire the holder of a license to distinguish the
boundaries of his run, by marked trees or posts
or otherwise, when they are not distinctly
marked by nature.

XI. So soon as practicable after the decision
in favour of any application for a run shall
have been given, an occupation license in the
form of Schedule B to depasture stock thereon
for 14 years shall be issued to the appli-
cant, who shall pay for such license the sum
of five pounds sterling, and shall be entitled to
receive credit on account of rent reserved as
under, to the extent of the deposit lodged by
him, subject always to the following reserva-
tions and conditions:—