✨ Land Regulations Amendments
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
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.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1859. [No. 92.
PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 21st September 1859.
THE following Proposed Additions to and Amendments of the Land Regulations are published for general information, in conformity with the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the “Waste Land Act 1854.”
W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.
PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO AND AMENDMENTS OF THE LAND REGULATIONS OF THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.
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In all cases wherein parties shall apply by Petition to the Waste Land Board, setting forth the circumstances of their case, it shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board, with the approval of the Superintendent and Executive Council first obtained, to sell Town Land, except lands within the limits of the Towns of Dunedin and Port Chalmers, without exposing the same to auction, at such price as shall be fixed by the Waste Land Board and approved of as aforesaid, such price not being less than the upset price, if such land had been exposed to sale by auction.
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If any Trustees for any religious body shall so apply for liberty to purchase a site for a Church or other buildings for religious purposes in any Town, it shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board, with the approval of the Superintendent and Executive Council first obtained, to sell to such Trustees for such purposes not exceeding one acre of land in any Town, without exposing the same to auction, at such price as would have formed the upset price if the land had been exposed to sale by auction.
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It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to sell Waste Lands of the Crown, situated outside Hundreds, proclaimed or to be proclaimed, to an extent not exceeding Six Hundred Thousand Acres, in blocks of not less than Two Thousand Acres, at the price of Ten Shillings per Acre, without stipulating, as a condition of sale or of purchase, that the purchasers shall lay out upon the lands, in money or labour, a sum equal to Forty Shillings per acre; from which stipulation such lands, to the extent above mentioned, shall be and are hereby exempted.
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It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to insert in every certificate of selection of land sold or to be sold in virtue of the Land Regulations which are now or hereafter may be in force, a stipulation that the sale of such land has been made, subject to the provisions of the “Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856.”
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 92
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🗺️ Proposed Additions to and Amendments of the Land Regulations
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey21 September 1859
Land Regulations, Waste Land Board, Town Land, Religious Sites, Crown Lands
- W. Cargill, Superintendent