✨ Provincial Land Disposal Correspondence
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
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.
By His Honor’s command,
H. S. KNOWLES, Acting Secretary.
VOL. I.] MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1853. [No. 2.
Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1853.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has been pleased to direct the publication of the following correspondence for general information.
By His Honor’s Command,
H. S. KNOWLES,
Acting Secretary.
Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1853.
Sir,—Your Excellency having, in the Civil Secretary’s letter of the 14th ultimo, promised to give your attention to any suggestions the Provincial Government might make relative to the disposal of the lands recently acquired in the Wairarapa Valley, I have now the honor to recommend, with the concurrence of the Commissioner, that the following instructions be issued to him by your Excellency:
1st, That the Commissioner should for the present reserve, as a Hundred, the Tauwarenikau Block (known as purchase No. 4) extending from Burling’s Station to the River Waingawa, and bounded towards the East by the unpurchased land, and towards the West by the Tararua Range, in order to give the promoters of the “Small Farm Scheme” an opportunity of carrying it out.
And, 2ndly, That the Commissioner should then notify that the other portions of the Valley which have become the property of the Crown will be open for sale on a certain day, of which day due and sufficient notice shall be given to the settlers in the Wairarapa; and that if, upon that day, two or more competitors apply for the same piece of land, one of whom is an occupant of the Wairarapa, they should not be regarded as having equal claims, but, that the Wairarapa settler should be regarded as having the preferable claim to the extent of 640 acres (if it lay around his homestead) of the land so applied for—such single block to be so taken as not unduly to monopolize water or bush, and subject to the usual regulations as to form, right of road, surveys, &c.
I have, &c., &c.,
(Signed) I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
His Excellency
Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.
Civil Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th October, 1853.
Sir,—In reply to your Honor’s letter of yesterday’s date to the Governor, containing a statement of the arrangements proposed by the Provincial Government for the disposal of
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1853, No 2
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🗺️ Provincial Government Recommendations for Wairarapa Land Disposal
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey7 October 1853
Land disposal, Wairarapa Valley, Small Farm Scheme, Land sale, Settler preference
- I. E. Featherston (Superintendent), Authored recommendations for land disposal
- George Grey (Governor), Recipient of the recommendations
- H. S. Knowles, Acting Secretary