✨ Land Disposal Notices
Crown Lands in the Wairarapa district: I am directed by his Excellency to express to your Honor his entire concurrence in opinion with you, that the interests of the Province require the immediate settlement of the question of the occupation of lands in that valley. And I am to state that, as the arrangement detailed in your Honor’s letter appears to be a judicious and proper one, orders will be issued without delay to the Commissioner, to enable him to carry it into execution.
I have, &c., &c.
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.
His Honor
The Superintendent of Wellington,
&c., &c., &c.,
NOTICE.
Crown Land Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1853.
WITH reference to the Correspondence between the General Government and his Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, relative to the disposal of land in the recently acquired districts at Wairarapa,
Notice is hereby given, that those districts (with the exception of the Tauwarenikau Block described at foot) will be open to selection under the Regulations of 4th March, 1853, upon and after Wednesday, the 26th day of October instant.
Applications will therefore be received on that day, in the usual form, from persons desirous of purchasing land in the districts referred to. In the event of two or more persons applying on that day for the same piece of land, one of whom is a settler at Wairarapa, having been in actual occupation of the land applied for previous to the acquisition of the districts, the application of such settler will take priority to an extent not exceeding 640 acres, provided that the land so applied for be situated around the homestead of such settler, be taken in one block, of the usual form, and do not unduly monopolize water or bush.
Where two or more persons make simultaneous applications for the same land, neither of whom is a settler in actual occupation as aforesaid, the land will be reserved as heretofore for sale by public auction.
A Plan of the Wairarapa, showing the districts open for selection, may be seen at this office on and after the 15th instant.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. D. BELL,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TAUWARENIKAU BLOCK EXCEPTED FROM THE PRESENT NOTICE.
This Block extends from Burling’s Station in the Wairarapa, at the opening of the Road from Wellington, northward to the River Wainogawa, and is bounded on the East by the part of Wairarapa Valley unpurchased from the Natives, and on the West by the Tararua Range.
NOTICE.
Crown Land Office,
Wellington, 5th October, 1853.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Trigonometrical Survey of the Ahuriri Districts having been commenced, all the Rules relating to Proclaimed Lands are now in force in those districts.
By His Excellency’s command,
F. D. BELL,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1853, No 2
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Provincial Government Recommendations for Wairarapa Land Disposal
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey7 October 1853
Land disposal, Wairarapa Valley, Small Farm Scheme, Land sale, Settler preference
- ALFRED DOMETT, Civil Secretary
🗺️ Notice of Land Disposal in Wairarapa Districts
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey6 October 1853
Land sale, Wairarapa, Tauwarenikau Block, Settler preference, Public auction
- F. D. BELL, Commissioner of Crown Lands
🗺️ Description of Tauwarenikau Block Excluded from Land Disposal
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyTauwarenikau Block, Wairarapa Valley, Land boundaries, Burling’s Station
🗺️ Notice of Trigonometrical Survey in Ahuriri Districts
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 October 1853
Trigonometrical Survey, Ahuriri Districts, Proclaimed Lands
- F. D. BELL, Commissioner of Crown Lands