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a deposit in respect thereof, be allowed one month to pay the remainder of the purchase money; Provided however that—

(a.) Where such improvements as are mentioned in the thirty-third of these Regulations have been made on any land which under these Regulations or any Regulations heretofore in force shall be or has been classed as suburban land, such land may be surveyed for sale and sold in a block or section of any size the Board may think fit, although less than one acre, but no such section shall in any case exceed ten acres.

39. Every section of suburban land shall have such a depth as in the judgment of the Board circumstances admit.

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

IX.—Rural Land.

41. All rural land shall be open for sale at a fixed uniform price of one pound per acre, in blocks of not less than twenty acres in extent.

42. Every section of rural land shall have such a depth as in the judgment of the Board circumstances admit.

43. Where such improvements as are mentioned in the thirty-third section of these Regulations have been made on any land which, under these Regulations, has been or shall be classed as rural land, such land may be sold in a section of any size the Board may think fit, though less than twenty acres in extent.

44. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money for any rural land, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a License to Occupy, in the form set forth in the Schedule C. hereto annexed; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyor as nearly in accordance with the description given by the purchaser in his application as these Regulations will admit: Provided always that should any section, when surveyed, prove to differ in any respect from that intended by the purchaser, the Government will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be returned: Provided also that when land has been sold by auction the sum to be so refunded shall be the value of the deficient acres at a price per acre equal to the whole sum paid for the land, divided by the number of acres put up: Provided also that when the land is found to be in excess, such excess may either be retained by Government, or paid for by the purchaser, at a price determined as aforesaid, at the discretion of the Waste Lands Board: Provided further that if the Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Receiver of Land Revenue shall refund so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The License to Occupy shall, in any case, be amended by the Commissioners in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the Crown Grant shall be made out in accordance therewith; and the license shall be delivered up when the Crown Grant shall be issued.

X.—Reserved Unsold Lands Occupied and Improved.

45. Whenever improvements have been made on any section, the value of which should, in the opinion of the County Council of Westland, be secured to the lawful occupant of such section, it shall be lawful for the Waste Lands Board, on the recommendation to that effect having been approved in such case by the Governor, to add to the upset price of such section the value of such improvements, to be ascertained in such manner as shall be decided by the Board with such approval as aforesaid; in which case, should the occupant become the purchaser, it shall not be necessary for him to pay the value so ascertained, but the same shall be allowed to him as if paid; and if any other person become the purchaser, the amount of such value shall be paid over to the occupant by the Receiver of Land Revenue: Provided always that, should lands so occupied be Public Reserves, such sale shall in no case take place except under an Order of the Governor in Council, to be applied for by the Board, notice of which intended application shall be published in the Westland Gazette for a period of three weeks prior to the issue of such Order.

XI.—Withdrawal of Land from Sale.

46. It shall be lawful for the Waste Lands Board to withdraw from sale, by Proclamation in the County of Westland Gazette, any block or blocks of suburban or rural land which may have been, or shall hereafter be, declared open for sale by the said Board, in exercise of the powers given them by section