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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 891, 28 October 1854, Page 2 (Supplement)

such agent or agents may be removed by the said Board with such consent as aforesaid. GB. The salaries of officers to be appointed by the Governor shall be paid by the General Government, and the salaries of officers to be appointed by the Superintendent, or by the Waste Land Board, shall be paid by the Provincial Government. . 69. All business connected with the sale, letting, disposal-and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown (except as hereinafter provided by section 70) shall be transacted by the Waste Land Board. 70. There shall be at the office of the Waste Land Board a room, open to the public, and the particulars of every application for the sale, letting, disposal, or occupation of any Waste Land of the Crown, shall be posted as soon as opened, as hereinbefore provided in Section 89, in some conspicuous part of such room for three days betore such application shall be decided on. 71. Before any application shall be decided on, any person may give notice in writing to the said Board that he'intends to dispute the granting of the same ; and if such person shall at the same time deposit with the said Board the sum of £5 no such application shall be decided on, except at a mealing of the Board, after a full hearing of all parties. The £5 so deposited, or any part thereof, may be appropriated in payment of costs to any party, or returned to the person depositing the same, at the discretion of the Board. 72. All applications, in reference to which no such notice shall have been given, shall be disposed of, and all the routine business of the Waste Land Office shall be transacted, by the Chief Commissioner, as soon as conveniently may be ; subject, nevertheless, within ten days, in all matters to reconsideration and revision by the Board. 78. All applications in reference to which any such notice shall have been given, and all disputes and differences relating, or incident, to (he sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown, or to any act to be done under these Regulations, or to the interpretation or meaning thereof, shall be heard and determined at. meetings of the Board. 74. All meetings of the Board for the despatch of business shall be attended by at least three Commissioners, and shall be open to the public. Reasonable public notice shall be given of all business to be transacted at such nice lings. 75. The decisions of the Board, on all such matters as aforesaid to be heard and determined by them, shall be final and conclutive: Provided always that the Board may, on the application of any person, grant a rehearing of any case decided by them, if they shall think that justice requires it; and, on such rehearing, may reverse, alter, or modify any previous decision in the same case. 70. The Board shall keep a record of their proceedings, in which shall be entered in writing a full and particular account of all business transacted by them, and a minute of the opinion of the members of the Board in cases where they differ ; which record shall be open to the inspection of any person, at all reasonabe hours, on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. for each inspection, 77. There shall also be kept in the office of the Board in a convenient form for reference, every letter, report, and communication received, and a copy of every letter written and order made by the said Board, and by the Chief Commissioner thereof; and a convenient index shall be made thereto; all which shall he open to inspection by any person, at all reasonable times, on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. for each inspection.

XIV. Definition of “ Waste Lands of the Crown.” 78. The terms “ Waste Lands of the Crown” aud “ Waste Lands” in the Ist and2nd sections of these Regulations shall be deemed to include all such lands as are declared by the 72nd section of the Constitution Act to be Waste Lands of the Crown within the meaning thereof. 79. The terms “ Waste Lands of the Crown” and “ Waste Lends” throughout these Regulations, (except in the Ist and 2nd sections thereof}, shall be taken to comprise only land whereof the native title shall have been extinguished, and the fact of such extinguishment shall have been notified by the General Government to the Provincial Government; and it shall be the duty of the General Government, from time to time to give such notification in respect of all land the native title to which shall have been extinguished, and the boundaries thereof satisfactorily defined. XV. Commencement of Regulations. 80. These Regulations shall come into fore# on the Ist day of January, 1855. The Rules and Regulations referred to in section 58 of the above regulations as thereto annexed and thereby confirmed, are the “ Rules and Regulations for the issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses for the Occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown, outside Hundreds,” (except Seetions Nos. 11 aud 12 thereof) as the same were published in the New Zealand Government Gazette , aud are now in force. In pursuance of the 3rd Section of an act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the “ Waste Lands Act, 1854,” the above Land Regulations are published in the Government Gazette of the Province of Auckland ; and their adoption by the Provincial Council of the said Province will be proposed by me the undersigned, one of the members thereof, in conformity with the Provisions of the said Act. Fredk. Whxtikkh, M.P.C. Auckland, Oct. 24th, 1854.