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cultural or small farm settlement, a reserve shall be made of bush land not
less than one twentieth of the whole extent of bush land within the limits of
such block; or if there be no bush land
thereon, then a sufficient reserve shall be made from the bush land outside such
block, and most convenient thereto; the
timber in which reserve shall be exclusively used in common by the resident
occupiers of the land in the block for
consumption thereon, but not for sale
to any persons not occupiers; and any
other persons felling or removing timber
from such reserve shall be proceeded
against as is by law provided in respect
to trespassers on Crown land.

VII. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to make in every district a
reserve not exceeding one-thirtieth part
of the public lands for the purposes of
education; such lands to be vested in
a Board of Commissioners for educational
purposes, and the proceeds thereof, as
sold, to be applied to such special educational objects as may be prescribed by
Acts of the Provincial Legislature.

VIII. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to make reserves where the
public advantage may require it, along
the banks of navigable rivers, or along
an available coast line, or otherwise, so
as to prevent the undue monopoly of
timber, or of road or water frontage.

IX. In all blocks reserved as townships and agricultural settlements (except always the special small farm
reserves), no land shall be sold until it
has been accurately surveyed, allotted
and mapped, and each allotment distinguished by appropriate marks on the
ground; nor shall any allotment exceed
three hundred and twenty acres in extent.

Applications.

X. The general register of applications
for land, and the local registers, where
such shall exist, shall be open to the inspection of the public daily during office
hours; and any one may take a copy of
any application from such register, or of
any other entry therein.

XI. All applications made upon the
same day shall, for the purpose of the
following rule, be deemed simultaneous
applications.

XII. In cases where simultaneous applications shall be made for a piece of
land, an auction shall be held as between
the applicants, the land named in the
applications being put up at the upset
price of ten shillings per acre, and the
application shall be registered in the
name of the person who shall bid and pay
the highest price: Provided that either or
all of the conflicting applications may be
withdrawn.

XIII. A return of every application
received shall be made monthly, exhibiting the name of the applicant, extent of land
purchased, payments made, and any other
particulars necessary for the full information of the public, shall be made monthly
by the Commissioner, and published in
the Provincial Government Gazette.

Auction Sales.

XIV. No sales by auction, excepting
sales provided for by clause XII, shall
take place unless the same shall have
been notified by Proclamation of the
Superintendent in the Government Gazette
specifying the several allotments to be
offered for sale, with the contents of each:
Provided always, that no allotment shall
be offered for sale, unless the same shall
have been first staked out upon the ground
and distinguished by an appropriate
number or mark upon a plan open to
public inspection: And provided also
that no allotment, the upset price whereof shall be five shillings per acre, shall
exceed 640 acres in extent.

REGULATIONS
FOR THE LICENSED OCCUPATION OF THE
PUBLIC PASTURE LANDS OF THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.

I. All persons requiring occupation
licenses for unoccupied portions of the
Public Pasture Lands of the Province of
Wellington, or for portions of the same
now in their occupation, shall lodge with
the Land Commissioner of the district in
which such run is situated, a description
thereof, in the form or to the effect of
Schedule A.

II. Every applicant shall, at the time
of lodging such description, pay to the
Commissioner a cash deposit according
to the following scale: viz.:

£25 for runs described as under 10,000
acres.

£50 ditto ditto over ditto ditto

III. All applications which shall have
been regularly made, and in respect of
which the required deposit shall have
been paid, shall be immediately filed and
registered in the Commissioner’s Office;
and the register of all such applications
shall be open to public inspection within
office hours.

IV. The Commissioner shall publish,
without delay, in the Government Gazette
for the Province of Wellington, the description of every run thus applied for,