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occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within such Province, it shall be lawful for such Governor, if he shall think fit, with the advice of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Government Gazette, to issue and put in force such Regulations within such Province, on a day to be named in the Gazette in which the same shall be published, not being less than one calendar month from the publication thereof.

And whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington have recommended to me the following regulations for the sale, letting, disposal and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said Province.

Now therefore, I, the Officer Administering the Government, pursuant to the authority vested in me in that behalf, by the said recited Act, do hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, proclaim and issue the following Regulations, and I do hereby declare that the same shall come in force one month from the day of the date of the publication of such Regulations in the Government Gazette of the Province of Wellington, not being less than one month from the date hereof.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Auckland in the Colony aforesaid, this sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

R. H. Wynyard,
The Officer administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand.

By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

God save the Queen!

ADDITIONAL LAND REGULATIONS

FOR THE AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION OF THE REGULATIONS OF 4TH MARCH, 1849, AS ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL FOR THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON, ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY THE 15TH, 1855.

I. The Superintendent shall from time to time, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, notify all new districts which shall be open to general purchase, with the boundaries and contents thereof, as nearly as the same can be ascertained.

Reserves.

II. All Reserves for the sites of townships, or town and suburban land, for the sites of agricultural and small farm settlements, or for any other purpose of public advantage, safety, convenience, health, or enjoyment, shall be determined by the Superintendent, who shall notify the same by Proclamation, wherein the objects shall be specified for which every reserve may be made.

III. In every district, ample reserves for the sites of agricultural and small farm settlements shall be made before the lands in such districts shall be thrown open to general purchase.

IV. Whenever any Association shall be formed for promoting the settlement and occupation of any reserve set apart for the site of small farms, and shall propose to the Superintendent a plan containing special rules for encouraging such settlement and occupation, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, on being satisfied of the probable ability of such Association, to effect the speedy settlement of such reserve, by Proclamation, to vest the administration of the land within such reserve, according to such special rules in Commissioners appointed by such Association, for a period not exceeding three years: Provided always, that the land shall be sold by such Association at the fixed price of ten shillings per acre, payable in cash to the Commissioner from time to time, immediately on the sale of every allotment.

V. Whenever any reserve shall have been made for the site of a small farm settlement, a block of the adjacent land, as nearly as may be in extent one-third of the reserve, shall by Proclamation be annexed to the reserve as common land, upon which, as well as upon all unsold lands within the reserve, every resident occupier of land in the reserve shall have a right of pasturage for a period of three years from the date of such Proclamation, the proportionate commons of each occupier to be fixed by the Association; and during such term none of the said common land so annexed outside the reserve block shall be sold, nor any license for a run issued thereon.

VI. At the expiration of such term, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent either to renew the same for a further period of three years, or to open the land for sale after public notice thereof for not less than three months.

VII. In every block which shall be set apart for the site of a township, or agri-