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27. The person who shall be declared the highest bidder at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit of ten per cent. of the purchase money to the Receiver of Land Revenue, and in default thereof the section shall be again immediately put up to auction.

28. The remainder of the purchase money shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in full, within fifteen days after the day of sale; and in default thereof the purchaser shall forfeit his deposit money, and also all right or title to the land, and the section may be sold to any person applying for the same for the price at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, if not so sold, the section may be again put up to auction at any future sale.

29. Upon payment of the purchase money in full, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a License to Occupy, in the form set forth in Schedule A. to these Regulations, and such license shall be delivered up upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased.

VII.—Suburban and Rural Land

30. Waste Lands of the Crown in the County of Westland, not being town land, may, from time to time, be declared open for sale by the Waste Lands Board, by Proclamation in the County of Westland Gazette. Such Proclamation shall define the boundaries and position of the blocks of land so proclaimed open for sale, and shall classify the same as suburban land or rural land.

31. All suburban or rural lands (but not lands within any proclaimed township) sold under the provisions of these Regulations, shall, after sale, be open to entry by miners for the purpose of mining for gold, subject to rules and regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto annexed to be from time to time made by the Governor in Council in that behalf.

32. It shall be lawful for the Waste Lands Board, at any time within five years from the date at which the Crown Grant shall be issued for any land sold as suburban or rural land, to cause to be laid out and reserved through such land such roads, tramways, or railways as such Board may think fit. Upon the survey of all lands sold as suburban or rural land there shall be added an amount equal to five per cent. of the total acreage so sold for the purposes of such roads, tramways, and railways as aforesaid.

33. Persons who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that they have, previous to the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, made improvements of the value of not less than thirty pounds on and declared open for sale as suburban or rural land, shall have a pre-emptive right of purchase over the lands in which such improvements have been made to the extent of not more than ten acres of suburban land, at the fixed price of three pounds per acre, and fifty acres of rural land at one pound or two pounds per acre, according to the class in which such rural land shall be placed. Such pre-emptive right shall, however, be forfeited, unless claimed within one month from the date at which such lands have been proclaimed open for sale, and unless the purchase be completed within three months from such date.

34. Every section of suburban or rural land shall be in one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form.

35. In the interpretation of these Regulations, a frontage line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, river, or public reserve, or any stream or watercourse which shall have been declared, by notification in the County of Westland Gazette, to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection.

36. Where, from the frontage not being a straight line, or from the interference of other frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, the rules provided in these Regulations in respect of form cannot be accurately observed, or where suburban land has been previously sold in sections of less than one acre, the form and size of the section shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these Rules as in the judgment of the Board circumstances will admit.

VIII.—Suburban Land

37. Land in the vicinity of townships or other centres of population may, when declared by the Waste Lands Board to be open for sale, be classified as suburban land.

38. Suburban land shall be sold by auction at an upset price of three pounds per acre, in blocks of not less than one nor more than ten acres. The provisions of these Regulations in respect of the sale of town lands by auction shall apply mutatis mutandis to the sale by auction of suburban land, except that the amount of deposit to be paid by the person upon whose application any suburban land shall be put up to auction, or who shall at the auction be declared to be the highest bidder, shall be twenty-five per cent. of the upset price, or of the purchase money realized at auction respectively, and that the purchaser of any suburban land shall, after payment of