136

5th of April was issued, when, your Honor having sanctioned Mr. Munn’s occu-
pation of unsold land, I could not refuse
any other person similarly situated. He
has a building on section 518.

3. Mr. Seed, the Sub-Collector of Cus-
   toms, has been permitted to occupy sections 426 and 427. The two together
   have not nearly a quarter of an acre of
   flat land, so that the building site is small
   enough. I thought, being a public servant and obliged to reside near the Harbor entrance, he could not fairly be
   required to live at an inn with his family
   until the land was ready for sale. He
   has a house nearly finished on the spot
   alluded to.

4. Dr. Hitchings has been allowed to
   occupy section 110. He is building a
   house there.

5. Mr. Marshall had permission from
   your Honor to occupy with a school a
   suburban section on the hills. A depu-
   tation of the School Committee waited
   upon me to request that an acre on the
   large flat might be granted instead. As
   the locality applied for had no especial
   value above numerous other sections,
   and the object was one in which so many of the public were interested, I had
   no hesitation in permitting him to occupy
   sections 136, 137, 127, and 128.

These are all that are in any way oc-
cupied.

I should be obliged then by the opin-
ion of your Honor whether these sections
should be sold by auction with the value
of the improvements added to the upset
price, as in similar cases at the last sale;
and, if so, how the valuation should be
made; or whether it would not be desir-
able to leave these sections out of the
list for sale, altogether at present and
put them up on a future occasion in order that no delay may take place in the
sale of the rest. Mr. Fitzgerald’s en-
gagement would necessitate the post-
pone’ment of the sale of his section at all
events, until after the rest had been sold,
whether it took place on the same day or
not. Your Honor’s opinion was that the
Government should fix the price to be
paid, and I concur in this view provided
it can be done consistently with the sale
by auction required by law. At the last
sale I adopted the valuation put in by the
occupants themselves, as I thought it un-
fair merely to secure them a return of
their outlay, with no remuneration for
their time, trouble, &c. I believe how-
ever, that this arrangement was a little
grumbled at.

9. I should state that the sections are
   not yet marked out with pegs. The
   Crown Surveyor assures me it will require
   about two months to do this. The Pro-

clamation should, of course, allow time
for the completion of this work.

Names of Roads and Streets.

10. The names attached to the roads
    and streets have been given on the prin-
    ciple previously adopted and approved by
    your Honor. The principal Town Roads
    and Streets have been called by the
    names most prominent in British Indian
    history. As these were soon exhausted,
    I had recourse to the names of some of
    the most eminent men in literature and
    science of our own day. The remaining
    Roads are proposed to be called after the
    most celebrated English poets. It is better to have pleasing associations with the
    names of our roads and ravines, however
    unworthy they may seem of such distin-
    guished ones, than to be constantly re-
    minded of the existence of obscure indi-
    viduals (ruffians possibly and runaway
    convicts) whose names get attached to the
    places they happen to be the first to pitch
    upon, and almost render the places them-
    selves distasteful, however favored by na-
    ture. I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,
ALFRED DOMETT,

His Honor,
The Superintendent.

Wellington.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherson, Esq., Superintendent of the
Province of Wellington, in the Islands
of New Zealand.

ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON,
Esq., Superintendent of the Province
of Wellington,—Do Hereby Proclaim
that a Sale of Crown Lands will take
place at Napier, on Thursday, the Four-
teenth day of February next, at the
Resident Magistrate’s Office, in Napier,
at Twelve o’clock precisely, when the
Allotments specified on the Schedule,
hereto annexed, will be put up to a Pub-
lic Auction, in accordance with the
Regulations of the fourth of March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three,
and the additional Regulations for the
amendment and extension of the said
Regulations of the fourth of March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three,
recommended by the Superintendent and
the Council, for the Province of Welling-
ton (Session II. clause 2) to the Governor.

Given under my hand, and Issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province, this twentieth day
of November, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five.

Isaac Earl Featherson,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.