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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 891, 28 October 1854, Page 1 (Supplement)

&udttattfcr IJrobmdal (Sofornmcnt <sfa?ci<c» ” NOTICE. Superintendent’s Office, Auckland, October 25th, 1854. rrHE following proposed Land Regulations X are published for general information in conformity with the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand iptituled the “ Waste Lands Act, 1854,” ’ . s R. H. Wynyard, Superintendent. proposed general land regulations FOR THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. I. General Regulations. 1 All Regulations now in force In the Province of Auckland, for the sale, letting, disposal, uid occupation of the Waste Lands oi the Crown, fexcept such Regulations as are hereinafter confirmed), are hereby repealed. 2. All such Waste Lauds shall, from and after the day on which these Regulations shall come ■nto force, be sold, let, disposed of, and occupied, according to these Regulations, and not otherthe purposes of settlement, the Waste Lands of the Crown shall, from time to time, be divided bv .the Waste Land Board, hereinafter constituted, into five classes, as follows, viz.— 1. Town Land,—being the sites reserved, or to be hereafter reserved, for Towns and Villages. 2. Suburban Land, —being the land in the immediate vicinity of Town and Village sites. 3. Rural Land,—being land deriving especial value from its proximity to Town and Village sites. 4. Special occupation Land, —being the land to be set apart as such, under the Regulations hereinafter contained. 5. General country Land,—being the Waste Land of the Crown, not comprised in one of the above four classes.

4. Such division into classes shall, before the same into force, be approved ol by the Supermtendl'lt and his Executive Council, and when so i'p-m time to time approved of, the laud therein respectively comprised, shall immediately he notified, and declared by the Waste Land Board, in the Provincial Government Gazette, as open to settlement according to the terms of these Regulations, on and after a day to be named in such Notice. > 5. It shall be lawful for the said Waste Land sßoard, with the consent of the Superintendent and his Executive Council, at any time, and from lime to time, to declare by notice in the Provincial Government Gazette , that any land (except Special Occupation Land,) which may have been placed in any such class, shall thenceforth cease to belong to such class, and that the : same shall, from a day to be named In such notice, belong to any other of the said classes, 11. Town, Suburban, and Rural Land, '5. All Town Land, Suburban Laud, and Rural Land shall be sold by Auction according to the Begulatious hereinafter prescribed for Auctions. The upset price of allotments ot such land respectively, shall be fixed by the Waste Land Board, subject to the approval of the Superintendent and his Executive Council. Special Occupation Land. 7. In every district of land, throughout the Province, which shall from time to time be de.ed open for settlement as aforesaid, the jaantity of land to be set apart for Special j occupation Land shall be at least one third part |of such district; and the same shall be set apart |by the Waste Land Board, subject to the [approval of the Superintendent, and his Executive Council. 8. Such Land, so to be set apart, shall be at least of the average quality of the Rural and General Country Land in the district, having regard especially to natural fertility, and to position as respects the vicinity of wood and water, and of roads and other facilities of communication with markets, and with other parts of the Province. 9. Such land shall be set apart in blocks, not exceeding in size 10,000 acres in one block, and such blocks shall be distributed throughout the district, and shall be situate as nearly as may be, equidistant from each other. 10. As soon as conveniently may be after any such block shall have been set apart as aforesaid, it may be surveyed and divided into allotments of such size aud description as the Waste Land Board, subject to the approval of the Superintendent and hb Executive Council, shall direct;