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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

“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 settlement 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 lands comprised in the said settlement shall on the publication hereof cease to be subject to the Regulations in force in the Province of Wellington for the sale and disposal of the waste lands of the Crown.

3. Roads and road lines shall be laid off through the said settlement in such directions as may be thought expedient.

4. Within the settlement, the Minister may from time to time make such reserves for the purposes of the Government of the colony, or for railways, bridges, roads, tramways, or other public works, or for schools, and schoolhouses, churches or chapels, or for the purpose of preserving the timber in any part of the settlement, as he may think fit.

5. Such reserves shall be managed in such manner as the Minister shall think fit, and he may allow the same to be occupied, sold, or disposed of under these Regulations on such terms and conditions as he shall prescribe. The purpose for which any such reserve shall have been made may be changed by the Minister, and any such reserve may be by him withdrawn from reservation. Notice of the making of any such reserve, and of any change made in the purposes for which the same shall have been reserved, or of any withdrawal thereof, shall be notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

6. The persons to be located on the said settlement shall be such immigrants as shall from time to time be approved of by the Minister, and the head of each family of such immigrants shall be allowed to select one section of land in the settlement. Such selection shall be made in such order and at such time as the Minister shall prescribe.

7. During the first two years of his occupation, if the settler shall have erected on the land selected a habitable dwelling-house, and shall have improved the land by felling the bush thereon, cropping or laying down in grass, and fencing at least 5 acres thereof, he shall be allowed to continue his holding and to purchase the land at a price of £1 per acre, payable in equal annual instalments of £13 6s. 8d. each; such instalments to be payable at the end of each year after the expiration of the first two years. The money to be paid in such manner and to such persons as the Minister shall from time to time direct.

8. If at the end of the said two years’ occupation the settler shall be in a position to pay for his land at once, he shall be at liberty to do so at the rate aforesaid.

9. Any failure to make the said payments or to perform and fulfil the conditions above prescribed will occasion a forfeiture of the land selected, and of all claim thereto or interest therein.

10. Upon full payment of the purchase money at the rates aforesaid, and upon the performance of the terms of these Regulations, the settler shall be entitled to a Crown grant of his land free of any further expense, except the usual Crown grant fees.

11. No settler shall be at liberty to part with, sell, assign, charge, or encumber his estate or interest in any land selected by him under these Regulations until he shall have paid his said purchase money, and otherwise complied with these Regulations: Provided that the Minister may in any case, if he think fit, by writing under his hand, consent to any such sale, assignment, or charge upon the land selected as aforesaid.

Lands set apart for Immigration Purposes.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the sixty-first section of “The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871,” it is enacted that in any Province in which there are not at any time, in the opinion of the Governor, waste lands of the Crown set apart or taken under the provisions of the said “Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871,” or any other Act, for the purpose of furnishing means for defraying the costs of railways or other like purposes connected with railways, sufficient in quantity and suitable in quality and in situation for settling immigrants, the Governor, on the recommendation of the Minister, may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, reserve and set apart any waste lands of the Crown within such province for the purposes of immigration, and to be dealt with under the said Act: And whereas there are not now, in the opinion of me, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, waste lands of the Crown in the Province of Wellington set apart or taken under the provisions of the said Act, or any other Act, for the purpose of furnishing means for defraying the costs of railways, or other like purposes connected with railways, sufficient in quantity and suitable in quality and situation for settling immigrants:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said section of the said Act, and all other powers enabling me in this behalf, and on the recommendation of the Minister for Immigration, do, by this Proclamation, reserve and set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto, being waste lands within the Province of Wellington, for the purposes of immigration, and to be dealt with under the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.

All that parcel of land in the Forty Mile Bush District, containing by estimation 6,000 acres, and known by the name of the Manawatu-Wairarapa No. 1 Block; bounded towards the North-east by the Manawatu-Wairarapa No. 2 Block; towards the East by the Ngatapu No. 1 Block; towards the South-west by the Manawatu Block; and towards the North-west by the Makakahi River. Excepting the Native Reserve of 1,000 acres in the said block.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; 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.