Numb. 63.
809

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1874.

Regulations for Settlement on Special Blocks of
Land.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," it is,
among other things, enacted that the Governor may
from time to time, on the recommendation of the
Minister therein mentioned, make regulations for
the sale, occupation, and disposal of land taken under
the said Act, and all such lands as specified in the 60th
section of the said Act, and such regulations may pro-
vide specially for the occupation of any of such lands
by and for the sale or disposal thereof to immigrants
introduced under the provisions of "The Immigration
and Public Works Act, 1870," and the said Act, or
otherwise, and prescribe the terms and conditions
upon which such lands may be so occupied, sold, or
disposed of, and the mode of allotment, and may pro-
vide for the occupation and disposal of such lands
without payment, or for the sale of such lands upon
payment, either present or deferred, and prescribe
the mode or order of allotment of or application for
such lands, the size or acreage of the sections into
which the lands shall be divided; and the regulations
shall, if any part of the land is intended to be laid
off as town or suburban lands, prescribe for the
laying off of such lands into town, suburban, and
rural sections: And whereas by a Proclamation
made under the said Act, bearing date the sixteenth
day of November instant, the lands therein particu-
larly mentioned were reserved and set apart for the
purposes of immigration and to be dealt with under
the said Act: And whereas the Minister for Immi-
gration has recommended the Governor to make the
regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the
sale, occupation, and disposal of the lands so reserved
and set apart as aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers
enabling me in this behalf, and on the recommenda-
tion of the said Minister, do hereby make the regula-
tions set forth in the Schedule hereto for the sale,
occupation, and disposal of the lands reserved and
set apart by the said Proclamation of the sixteenth
day of November instant.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same; and issued under the Seal
of the said Colony, at Auckland, this
twenty-fourth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

1. In the interpretation of these Regulations, un-
   less there is something in the context repugnant
   thereto, the following terms and expressions shall
   have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is
   to say,-

"Minister" shall mean the Minister for Immi-
gration for the time being.

"Settlement" shall mean either of the blocks of
country in the Provinces of Hawke's Bay and
Wellington, described in the Schedules to a
certain Proclamation made under "The Immi-
gration and Public Works Act Amendment
Act, 1871," bearing date the sixteenth day of
November instant.

"Settler" means any person authorized to settle
on the said block of land in accordance with
these Regulations.

2. The lands comprised within the said settlements
   shall be rural lands, and shall be surveyed by and at
   the expense of the General Government, in sections
   as nearly as may be of not less than 40 acres each,
   and such sections shall be of such depth and with
   such frontages to roads or roadways as may be best
   fitted to afford convenient access to the lands. The
   whole of the land comprised in the said settlements
   shall on the publication hereof cease to be subject to