✨ Land Sale Agreement
APPENDIX.
A.
CORRESPONDENCE with reference to the Sale of Lands to Colonel Feilding.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th February, 1872.
SIR,—
With reference to my letter of the 25th ultimo, I have now the honor to forward, in compliance with your Honor’s verbal request, a duly certified copy of the Deed between Her Majesty the Queen and the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation (Limited).
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
W. GISBORNE.
His Honor the Superintendent, Wellington.
DEED OF AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BETWEEN HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND THE EMIGRANT AND COLONIST’S AID CORPORATION (LIMITED).
This Deed, made the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, between Her Majesty the Queen, of the one part, and the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation, Limited, of London, in England, a Company incorporated under “The Companies Act, 1862,” and herein called the Corporation, of the other part:
Witnesseth, that the parties hereto, Her Majesty the Queen—contracting for herself, her heirs and successors,—and the Corporation—contracting for themselves and their successors,—do hereby covenant and contract the one with the other as follows:—
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The Governor for the time being of the Colony of New Zealand, herein called the Governor, shall reserve and set apart waste lands of the Crown in and about the Township of Palmerston, in the Province of Wellington, to the extent of one hundred and six thousand acres, and waste lands of the Crown in the Township of Palmerston, to the extent of about ten acres; all such lands to be as nearly as practicable within the limits set forth in the First Schedule hereto.
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The said lands shall be reserved and set apart under the provisions of the Fifth Part of “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” and the Ninth Part of “The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871,” as soon as may be after the signing of these presents.
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All payments required to be made to the Land Fund of the Province of Wellington, or to any person entitled to compensation, shall be paid by the Governor out of the Public Works Account of the said Colony.
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The Governor shall, as soon as may be, make Regulations for the sale, occupation, and disposal of the lands so reserved, in such terms as to give to the Corporation the immediate right to occupy the whole thereof (except the bush reserve hereinafter referred to), until disposed of, as hereinafter mentioned, or until such right is determined in pursuance hereof. The said Regulations shall also provide that the land so reserved shall be sold absolutely, but only to persons approved by the Corporation under this agreement, upon payment by the Corporation to the Colonial Treasurer for the time being of the Colony of New Zealand, herein called the Colonial Treasurer, of fifteen shillings for every acre sold.
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As to the piece of land containing ten acres before mentioned, the said Regulations shall provide that the same shall be sold to the Corporation, or to some person on their behalf, on payment therefor to the Colonial Treasurer of fifteen shillings for every acre.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1872, No 10
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🗺️ Correspondence regarding Sale of Lands to Colonel Feilding
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey16 February 1872
Land Sale, Correspondence, Colonial Secretary, Wellington, Colonel Feilding
- Feilding (Colonel), Subject of land sale correspondence
- W. Gisborne
🗺️ Deed of Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen and the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey26 December 1871
Deed of Agreement, Land Sale, Palmerston, Wellington, Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation