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Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to set aside out of the Waste Lands within the Province of Wellington, the Native title of which has been extinguished, any block or blocks for the purpose of special settlement, not exceeding in the whole 100,000 acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the Governor in Council, anything in the existing Regulations for the management or disposal of the Waste Lands in the Province to the contrary notwithstanding. It is also provided that no land shall be sold at a less price than land of a similar description is now sold at under the Regulations aforesaid, and that the proceeds thereof shall be subject to any sum already imposed thereon by any Act of the General Assembly.

And whereas by an Order in Council, dated the 20th day of November, 1872, a block of land at Foxton, in the Manawatu District, in the said Province, is sanctioned as a special settlement under the said Act for the members of an Association formed in England for the growth, cultivation, and manufacture of the New Zealand Flax or Flax, upon a large scale; and which said Association is represented at present by Falconer Larkworthy, Esquire, of London, Banker, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the second schedule hereto.

Now, therefore, I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in the exercise of the power in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land situated in the township of Foxton, in the Manawatu District, in the Province of Wellington, containing about 8,000 acres, more or less, and bounded as described in the first schedule hereto, shall be reserved and set apart as a special settlement under the said Act, and for the purposes before mentioned.

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

William Fitzherbert,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land estimated to contain 8,000 acres, more or less, being Rural Sections Nos. 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, and 104 in the Motua Block, Township of Foxton, and Rural Sections Nos. 434, 533, 534, and 535 in the Township of Foxton, and all that other piece of unsurveyed land in the Motua Block, bounded towards the North by section No. 251, by a public road, by sections Nos. 435, 436, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 52, 53, 60, 61, and 101, and by the abutments of the public road between sections Nos. 29 and 30, and between sections Nos. 52 and 53; towards the North-east by sections Nos. 98 and 104, and by Block No. 1; towards the East by sections Nos. 52, 65, 66, 67, 68, 101, 102, 103, and 104, and by the abutment of a public road between sections Nos. 66 and 67; towards the South-east by sections Nos. 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, and 98, and by the abutments of the public road between sections Nos. 88 and 104, and between sections Nos. 93 and 94; towards the South by the Manawatu River and by Block No. 1; and towards the West by sections Nos. 80, 254, 251, 434, and 535, by a public road and by the abutments of a public road between sections Nos. 434 and 535, and of a road on the south side of section No. 254 and by Block No. 1. Excepting always the lands claimed by the Natives, the acreage of which is undetermined, lying within the boundaries of the last described piece of land.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Terms and Conditions for the Occupation and Purchase of the Block of Land proposed to be set aside for Special Settlement as aforesaid.

INTERPRETATION.

1. In the construction of these terms and conditions, unless the context shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—"Association" shall mean the Association formed in England as aforesaid. "Land" shall mean the block of land described in the foregoing Proclamation. "Purchaser" shall mean any one purchasing on behalf of the aforesaid Association, formed in England, who may purchase any of the land hereby set aside. "The said Act" shall mean "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871."

2. All moneys required to be paid for the said land under these terms and conditions shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Wellington, and receipts given by him shall be sufficient evidence of such payment as may be therein expressed.

3. The price of the land to be twenty shillings per acre, of which ten shillings per acre is to be paid on application and the balance by equal instalments, extending over a period of five years from...