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such lands have been proclaimed open for sale,
and unless the purchase be completed within three
months from such date.
34. Every section of suburban or rural land shall
be in one block, and, except as hereinafter provided,
of a rectangular form.
35. 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.
36. 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, or where suburban
land has been previously sold in sections of less than
one acre, the form and size of the section shall be
determined as nearly in accordance with these Rules
as in the judgment of the Board circumstances will
admit.

VIII.—Suburban Land.

37. 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 suburban land.
38. Suburban land shall be sold by auction at
    an upset price of three pounds per acre, in blocks of
    not less than one nor more than ten 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: Provided
    however that—
    (a.) Where such improvements as are men-
    tioned in the thirty-third of these Regulations
    have been made on any land which under
    these Regulations or any Regulations here-
    tofore in force shall be or has been classed
    as suburban land, such land may be surveyed
    for sale and sold in a block or section of
    any size the Board may think fit, although
    less than one acre, but no such section shall
    in any case exceed ten acres.
39. Every section of suburban land shall have
    such a depth as in the judgment of the Board cir-
    cumstances admit.
40. 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 Regu-
    lations, and such license shall be delivered up upon
    receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased.

IX.—Rural Land.

41. All rural land shall be open for sale at a fixed
    uniform price of one pound per acre, in blocks of
    not less than twenty acres in extent.
42. Every section of rural land shall have such a
    depth as in the judgment of the Board circumstances
    admit.
43. Where such improvements as are mentioned
    in the thirty-third section of these Regulations have
    been made on any land which, under these Regu-
    lations, has been or shall be classed as rural land,
    such land may be sold in a seetion of any size the
    Board may think fit, though less than twenty acres
    in extent.
44. Immediately on the payment of the purchase
    money for any rural land, the purchaser shall receive
    from the Commissioners a License to Occupy, in the
    form set forth in the Schedule C. hereunto annexed;
    and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the
    land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyor as
    nearly in accordance with the description given by
    the purchaser in his application as these Regulations
    will admit: Provided always that should any section,
    when surveyed, prove to differ in any respect from
    that intended by the purchaser, the Government will
    not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience
    which the purchaser may experience, nor will the
    purchase money be returned: Provided also that
    when land has been sold by auction the sum to be so
    refunded shall be the value of the deficient acres at a
    price per acre equal to the whole sum paid for the
    land, divided by the number of acres put up: Pro-
    vided also that when the land is found to be in
    excess, such excess may either be retained by
    Government, or paid for by the purchaser, at a price
    determined as aforesaid, at the discretion of the
    Waste Lands Board: Provided further that if the
    Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in
    the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid
    for by the purchaser, the Receiver of Land Revenue
    shall refund so much of the purchase money as
    exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The
    License to Occupy shall, in any case, be amended
    by the Commissioners in accordance with the report
    of the Surveyor, and the Crown Grant shall be made
    out in accordance therewith; and the license shall
    be delivered up when the Crown Grant shall be
    issued.

X.—Reserved Unsold Lands Occupied and Improved.

45. Whenever improvements have been made on
    any section the value of which should, in the opinion
    of the County Council of Westland, be secured to
    the lawful occupant of such section, it shall be
    lawful for the Waste Lands Board, on the recom-
    mendation to that effect having been approved in
    such case by the Governor, to add to the upset price
    of such section the value of such improvements, to
    be ascertained in such manner as shall be decided by
    the Board with such approval as aforesaid; in which
    case, should the occupant become the purchaser, it
    shall not be necessary for him to pay the value so
    ascertained, but the same shall be allowed to him as
    if paid; and if any other person become the pur-
    chaser, the amount of such value shall be paid over
    to the occupant by the Receiver of Land Revenue:
    Provided always that, should lands so occupied be
    Public Reserves, such sale shall in no case take place
    except under an Order of the Governor in Council,
    to be applied for by the Board, notice of which
    intended application shall be published in the West-
    land Gazette for a period of three weeks prior to the
    issue of such Order.

XI.—Withdrawal of Land from Sale.

46. It shall be lawful for the Waste Lands Board
    to withdraw from sale, by Proclamation in the County
    of Westland Gazette, any block or blocks of suburban
    or rural land which may have been or shall hereafter
    be declared open for sale by the said Board, in
    exercise of the powers given them by section thirty-
    eight of these Regulations, and which shall after such
    declaration be found to be auriferous.
47. It shall further be lawful for the Waste Lands
    Board to declare the land so withdrawn open for sale
    again, in accordance with the Regulations hereinbefore
    contained, at their discretion: Provided always that
    three months' notice of such sale as last aforesaid