NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.

VOL. XIX. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1872. No. 4.

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 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 19th day of February 1872 a block of land at Sandon in the Manawatu district in the said Province is sanctioned as a special settlement under the said Act for the members of an association known as the “Hutt Small Farm Association” and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the schedule thereto. 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 and authority for this purpose in me vested do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land situated in the township of Sandon, in the Manawatu district in the Province of Wellington containing 5008 acres 2 roods 32 perches more or less and bounded as described in the schedule hereto shall be reserved and set apart as a special settlement for the members of “The Hutt Small Farm Association” upon the terms and conditions set forth and specified in the said before mentioned Order in Council. And further declare that the Provincial Government shall have the right to select out of the Rural Lands included within the said block ten acres for gravel reserves such ten acres to be selected within twelve months from the date of this proclamation and in the event of the land so selected forming part of a purchased section or sections a refund of the purchase money pro rata shall be made to the owner or owners thereof. But should the land so selected be only partly paid for, a reduction of the balance of the purchase money shall be made pro rata in favor of the purchaser. In all cases the gravel reserves shall be fenced at the expense of the Provincial Government. Also that the Provincial Government shall have the right to carry through any and all of the rural sections within the said block all water that may be collected in the side drains of the two principal public roads to its natural outlet without any compensation being payable to the owner of the land through which such outlets may be.