Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1854 – No. 24

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✨ Proposed Land Regulations



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

FOR THE

PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

Published by Authority.

VOL. II. NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1854. [NO. 24.

NOTICE.

Superintendent's Office,
16th December, 1854.

THE following proposed Land Regulations are published for general information pursuant to the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Waste Lands Act, 1854," and the adoption of the same by the Provincial Council of the Province of New Plymouth, will be proposed by me in conformity with the provisions of the same Act.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

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

I. GENERAL.

  1. All regulations now in force in the Province of New Plymouth for the Sale, Letting, Disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said Province are hereby repealed.

  2. All such Waste Lands 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. So soon as the Native Title shall be extinguished in any District, and the same shall be open for settlement, the fact shall be duly notified to the Superintendent.

II. SURVEY, AND SUB-DIVISION OF DISTRICTS.

  1. The Surveyor-General, or other proper officer, shall with all convenient speed make a general survey of any district in which the Native Title shall be extinguished after the issue of these Regulations, and also of the unsold portions of the districts in which such Title has already been extinguished, and shall prepare maps thereof exhibiting so far as practicable their character and natural features, and shall transmit the same to the Superintendent, accompanied by Reports containing any information obtained by the Surveyor which cannot be conveyed by a map.

  2. If it shall not be possible to survey the whole of any tract of Land without great delay or undue expense, the Superintendent, with approval of the Provincial Council, may direct that portions thereof to be defined by him, shall be successively surveyed and declared open for purchase.

  3. The Governor will in the first place appoint such Reserves for Military purposes as he shall think expedient.

  4. The Superintendent with the assistance of the Surveyor shall, subject to such approval as herein-after is mentioned, appoint Public Reserves for Civil purposes, and also Sites for Towns or Villages, which proposed Reserves and Sites shall be laid down upon the proper maps.

  5. It shall be the duty of the Surveyor, with the approval of the Superintendent to lay out such lines of road as may appear necessary or desirable, and to divide the Rural Lands into sections, and to lay down the lines of road and sections upon the



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🗺️ Proposed General Land Regulations for the Province of New Plymouth

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
16 December 1854
Land Regulations, Waste Lands Act, New Plymouth, Survey, Native Title, Reserves
  • Charles Brown, Superintendent