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to be determined in the case of each section by
the Governor, on the recommendation of the
County Council; but if such occupant shall not
complete the purchase at such fixed price within
two months after the same shall have been deter-
mined, such section shall be put up to auction
in the ordinary way without any valuation for
improvements.

31. Any occupant of town sections, not being
    reserves, who shall prove to the satisfaction of the
    Waste Lands Board, that he has before the tenth
    October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
    seven, erected improvements on such sections
    to the value of twenty-five pounds or upwards,
    and has, before the first January, one thousand
    eight hundred and sixty-eight, applied to the
    Waste Lands Board in Christchurch, to have such
    sections put up to auction with the value of such
    improvements added to the upset price, shall be
    entitled to have such sections put up to auction
    accordingly, at an upset price to be determined
    by the Governor on the recommendation of the
    County Council, with the value of such improve-
    ments to be determined by the Waste Lands
    Board added thereto; and the amount of such
    valuation shall be paid to such occupant by the
    Receiver of Land Revenue, so soon after the
    auction as the purchase money of such sections
    shall have been paid to the Receiver. If such
    sections shall not at such auction realize such
    upset price with such improved value added, they
    shall then be put up to auction at the upset price
    without any addition whatever.

VII.—Suburban and Rural Land.

32. Waste Lands of the Crown in the County
    of Westland, not being town land, may, from
    time to time, be declared open for sale by the
    Waste Lands Board, by proclamation in the
    County of Westland Gazette. Such proclama-
    tion shall define the boundaries and position of
    the blocks of land so proclaimed open for sale,
    and shall classify the same as suburban land or
    first-class rural land or second class rural land.

33. All suburban or rural lands (but not lands
    within any proclaimed township) sold under the
    provisions of these regulations shall after sale be
    open to entry by miners for the purpose of mining
    for gold subject to rules and regulations to be
    from time to time made by the Governor in
    Council in that behalf.

34. It shall be lawful for the Waste Lands
    Board, at any time within five years from the date
    at which a Crown Grant shall be issued for any
    land sold as suburban or rural land, to cause to be
    laid out and reserved through such lands such
    roads, tramways, or railways as such Board may
    think fit. Upon the survey of all lands sold as
    suburban or rural land there shall be added an
    amount equal to five per cent. of the total acreage
    so sold for the purposes of such roads, tramways,
    and railways as aforesaid.

35. Persons who shall prove to the satisfaction
    of the Waste Lands Board that they have previous
    to the seventeenth day of February one thousand
    eight hundred and sixty-eight made improvements
    to the value of not less than thirty pounds on land
    declared open for sale as suburban or rural land
    shall have a pre-emptive right of purchase over
    the lands in which such improvements have been

made to the extent of not more than ten acres of
suburban land at the fixed price of three pounds
per acre, and fifty acres of rural land at one
pound, or two pounds per acre, according to the
class in which such rural land shall be placed.
Such pre-emptive right shall, however, be forfeited
unless claimed within one month from the date
at which such lands have been proclaimed open
for sale, and unless the purchase be completed
within three months from such date.

36. Every section of suburban or rural land
    shall be in one block, and, except as hereinafter
    provided, of a rectangular form.

37. In the interpretation of these regulations
    a frontage line shall be taken to mean the
    boundary of a road, river, or public reserve, or
    any stream or watercourse which shall have been
    declared by notification in the County of Westland
    Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose
    of selection.

38. Where, from the frontage not being a
    straight line, or from the interference of other
    frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries
    of private lands, the rules provided in these
    regulations in respect of form cannot be accurately
    observed, the form of the section shall be
    determined as nearly in accordance with these
    rules as, in the judgment of the Board circum-
    stances will admit.

VIII.—Suburban Land.

39. Land in the vicinity of townships or other
    centres of population may, when declared by the
    Waste Lands Board to be open for sale, be
    classified as uburban land.

40. Suburban land shall be sold by auction
    at an upset price of three pounds per acre,
    in blocks of not less than five nor more than
    twenty acres. The provisions of these regulations
    in respect of the sale of town lands by auction shall
    apply mutatis mutandis to the sale by auction of
    suburban land except that the amount of deposit
    to be paid by the person upon whose application
    any suburban land shall be put up to auction, or
    who shall at the auction be declared to be the
    highest bidder shall be twenty-five per cent. of the
    upset price, or of the purchase money realized at
    auction respectively, and that the purchaser of
    any suburban land shall, after payment of a
    deposit in respect thereof, be allowed one month
    to pay the remainder of the purchase money.

41. Every section of suburban land if bounded
    by a frontage line shall be of a depth of twelve
    chains and a half from such frontage.

42. In sections of suburban land not adjacent
    to or bounded by a frontage line, all the sides
    may be equal; but one side may not be less
    than one-third of the other, and such section shall
    be not less than twelve and a half chains distant
    from a frontage line.

43. Upon payment of the purchase money in
    full for any suburban land the purchaser shall
    receive from the Commissioners a license to
    occupy in the form set forth in Schedule B. to
    these regulations, and such license shall be
    delivered up upon receipt of a Crown Grant of
    the land purchased.

IX.—Rural Land.

44. (A.) All first-class rural land shall be open
    for sale at a fixed uniform price of two pounds per