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cent., within three, six, nine, and twelve months re-
spectively from the day of sale. In the event of any
of such payments not being duly made as aforesaid
the sale shall be void, and every payment made pre-
viously to default shall be forfeited.

30. Provided always that every application for
    general rural land shall comprise not less than 40
    acres, and shall, so far as the features of the country
    will permit, be of a rectangular form; and, when
    fronting on a road, river, lane, or coast be of a depth,
    when practicable, not less than three times the length
    of the frontage; and no application which does not
    comply with these requirements shall be granted; but
    it shall be competent for any applicant, with the con-
    sent of the Commissioner, to amend his application,
    so that any such alteration in no way interferes with
    any other application duly made at the time.

31. The Commissioner, at the time of any appli-
    cation being granted, or as soon as conveniently
    may be thereafter, shall inform the applicant that the
    land selected will be surveyed by and at the expense
    of the Government, or that the applicant must have
    the same surveyed at his own expense by a surveyor
    to be approved of in writing by the Commissioner.

32. When the land is surveyed by the applicant at
    his own expense he shall be entitled to an allowance
    in land according to a scale to be from time to time
    fixed by the Commissioner for the cost thereof not
    exceeding five acres for every one hundred acres
    purchased.

33. Every survey to be made at the expense of the
    applicant must be completed to the satisfaction of

the Commissioner, and the plans thereof delivered to
him with as little delay as possible, and within a time
to be fixed by him, which shall in no case exceed six
calendar months; and in default thereof it shall be
lawful for the Commissioner either to have the land
surveyed at the applicant's cost which shall be repaid
by him within one month of the completion of the
survey, or it shall be lawful for the Commissioner to
sell the land to some other person, and in such latter
case the deposit paid shall be forfeited.

34. When general rural land shall be purchased in
    a district in which lines of road shall not be deter-
    mined on and laid out, a right of laying out roads
    over the said land shall be reserved in the grant, but
    not more than five per cent. of the land shall be taken
    for such purpose without payment of compensation
    for the excess, to be fixed by arbitration in the usual
    way: provided that if such right be not exercised
    within five years from the date when the block within
    which such land is situate was first offered for sale,
    then and in such case compensation for the whole
    area taken shall be given to be fixed by arbitration in
    the usual way.

35. It shall be at any time competent for the Com-
    missioner to offer for sale by auction any general
    rural land which shall be deemed to possess especial
    value as containing minerals, and the Regulations
    hereinbefore contained relating to auction sales shall
    apply thereto.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.