New Laud Regulations

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 74, 2 December 1884, Page 3

New Laud Regulations

fpKB UXITEI> PEESS ASSOCIATION. J

Wellington, November 80. It is understood that the new regulations regarding small farm settlements, referred to by Mr Ballance in his speech at Wangnnui, are to the following effect : — «• Any association of persons of not less than 25 who may be desirous of settling on Crown lands adjacent to ench other, may arrange with the Government for a block of land on certain conditions. Aoy block of land to be selected under these regulations shall contain not less than a 1000 acres nor more than 10,000 acres, and it will be surveyed into areas of not more than 100 acres or thereabouts. Such portions of land as may be required for purposes of the Government of,the colony, or for educational, recreation, or other public purposes, and as shall be approved by a Minister, will not be open For selection. The price of. land shall be such as may be arranged between a Minister and an association, payable as follows : One-tenth of the price of the whole block shall be paid by the secretary prior to allotment of sections ; this will be in satisfaction of the two first half-yearly instalments to be reckoned as due from the next first day of January or Jaly, and following thereafter the payments shall be made by each purchaser £rerv six months in advance, at the rate ■«£ v.-he-iwentieih of the price of laad, until the whole price has been paid. Onethird of the price of land will, frocn time lo time, as paid to Government, be repaid to a local body of the district or an asso elation for expenditure on roads in or leading to the block The purchaser shall be entitled to a Crown grant of the land selected by him, upon proof to the satisfaction of th;} Minister that he has been continuously in residenua I occupation of the laud selected by him either personally or by a registered substitute for a period ©f six years, and has fulfilled all conditions. Each purchaser shall, within two years from the date of bis purchase, bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the land purchased by him. Within four years from date of his purchase he shall bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the land purchased by him ; and within — years, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, he shall have put substantial improvements of a permanent character on the land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land. Should any purchaser be compelled to laava the district previous to his being entitled to his Crown grant, and before competing the requisite term of occupation, it shall be competent for the Minister to permit such purchaser to j transfer his rights, title, and interes's in the land selected to another bon:i fide settler, who sh.ill be deemed to occupy the position of the original occupant, provided always that no purchaser shall be allowed to hold more than 100 acres. No person who is a holder of 1.-md on deferred payments, or who has acquired any freehold under that system, or who is a holder of any land on perpetual lease ; and no persoa who is the owner of a pre-emptive right, or owner in fee, of more than 320 acres of land in n!l in New Zealand, and no person who hns made an arrangement or arrangements to permit anyone, safe his son or daughter, to acquire by purchase or ofcherwiso an allotment, in respect of which his application is made, shall be entitled to become a purchaser.