Otago Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 20

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✨ Land Regulations and Superintendent's Message



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

VOL. III.] TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1857. [No. 15.

MESSAGE No. 9.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 31st March 1856.

To the Provincial Council
of the Province of Otago.

GENTLEMEN,—By the despatch bearing date the 5th December, it proved that the price, whatever thought be, could not be applied to local purposes, but must be held—one-fourth for the New Zealand Company, and the remaining three-fourths at the disposal of the General Government, thinking it thereby the interest of the Province to have the price fixed at the least possible amount. But is now proved that the joint operation of other Provinces (for reasons binding upon all) had been struck at 10s. per acre, and hence the opinion of the Otago Executive that the price of land in this Province must of necessity be the same, and the most that necessity guarded against by regulations which may prevent the injurious effects of such Regulations was then suggested to make that the subject might be discussed upon public grounds. I have now to lay before you considered proposals, on the understanding that the Members of your House, having had only just time to compare with those of the Executive, are at this Cabinet to introduce other proposals, in order to their being printed and circulated together, and the public mind clearly informed thereon with the least possible delay.

The Regulations proposed by the Executive are in conformity, so far as may be, with those published for Auckland—the only material difference being that, here, for Auckland have observance of class legislation, and increase of the land being given separately in three classes: first class, suburban land; second class, agricultural land; third class, and second class, sufficient to constitute a snug class (being working people and small farmers).

For Otago, it is proposed that all land purchasers from the least to the greatest, shall be on the same footing, and subject to the same regulations.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

GENERAL LAND REGULATIONS PROPOSED FOR THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.

I.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

  1. All Regulations now in force in the Province of Otago for the sale, letting, disposal, occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown (except such Regulations as are hereinafter enhanced) are hereby repealed.

  2. All such Waste Land shall, from and after the day on which these Regulations shall come into force, be sold, let, disposed of, and occupied according to these Regulations, and not otherwise.

  3. For the purpose of settlement, the Waste Land of the Crown shall, from time to time, be divided by the Waste Land Board, hereinafter constituted, into three classes as follows, viz.:

    1. Town Land—being the sites reserved, or to


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🏛️ Superintendent's Message on Land Pricing

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
31 March 1856
Land pricing, Provincial Council, New Zealand Company, General Government
  • W. Cargill, Superintendent

🗺️ General Land Regulations for Otago

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Waste Lands, Crown Lands, Sale, Disposal, Settlement