THE OTAGO WASTE LANDS ACT, 1872.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 5 December 1872, Page 9

THE OTAGO WASTE LANDS ACT, 1872.

sales op BtTBAL lands — (Continued)

The purchaser of unserveyed land shall, upon payment of the purchase money receive an occupation license, and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be surveyed by the district surveyor. The expense of the survey shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time of the purchase deposit the estimated cost of such survey.

Notwithstanding that the Board may have received an application for unserveyed land, the Board may, should they deem it prejudical to the public interest to grant an application, refuse to grant the application, and m.iy return the deposit money.

The purchaser of surveyed land shall complete his purchase within ten days after his beiii£ declared the purchaser thereof ; and the purchaser of unserveyed land shall complete his purchase within fourteen days after a notification shall have been published in the " Proviucal Gazette," and sent by post to the applicant, that the applicant has been declared tbe purchaser. And if, in either case, tbe purchase money is not paid at the time fixed, such application shall be deemed withdrawn aud cancelled, and shall thereupon become void. In the event of two or more persons making application to purchase the same bind on the same day, the said land shall be offered for sale by public auction, open to all bidders. The Board may, with the consent of the Superintendent, receive and grant applications for the purchase of timbered land in such quantities as the Board shall see fit. Contractors for public works may arrange to receive land by way of payment for then work to the extent of one acre for every one pound sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the bona fide value of tbe work. Provided that no contractor shall receive more than 250 acres in payment of work done, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by tbe Provincial Council ; and that no greater amount of land than 1000 acres in tbe aggregate shall in any one year be devoted to the payment of public works without the special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided also, that no greater amount than 10,000 acres shall be granted in any one year. ALIENATION OF LANDS BT LICENSE OB LEASE. Under this section of the Act provision is made for the sale of land on deferred payments. The Superintendent may, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council, set apart, by Proclamation in the " Gazettee," districts or blocks of land within which licenses to occupy, and leases thereof on deferred payments may be granted ; and land may be sold on immediate payment within such districts or blocks, should the Proclamation so direct. Provided that, pending the next meeting of the Provincial Council, the Superintenpent may, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, set apart under this section any lands which may have been already thrown open under any power given in any previous Act. Provided that no area exceeding in the aggregate 5000 acres in one block may be proclaimed on any run, not exceeding ten per cent, of the extent of the run. Provided also that when one half of any such proclaimed block shall have beeu sold or leased, and shall be occupied bor<a fide for agricultural purposes, another block of a similar extent may be sat apart upon the run for the same purpose. Provided that the area to be so set apart; shall not exceed 30,0C0 acres in any. ono year. And "that no farther

land shall be so set apart until onethird of the entire quantity of land previously so set apart shall be occupied under sale or lease, and in course of being cultivated.

No officer belonging to the Land Office or Survey Department shall be interested m any way in the selection under this Act, of land within the district in which he is employ -> this provision, however, shall not be. so constructed as to prevent such officer taking up an allotment noc exceeding 200 acres under provisions to be afterwards mentioned. Except as otherwise provided, any person may apply personally to a Land Officer for a license to occupy an j allotment, and shall at such time deposit the fee for one half years occupation. The District Officer shall appoint a day, being not less than fourteen nor more than thirty days from the date of an application, for deciding the unopposed applications, and for notifying the objections (if any) which have been lodged. (1.) Objections must be made in writing to the District Officer and lodged twenty-fours hours at least before the time appointed for hearing. (2.) "Upon the day appointed for deciding the unopposed applications, if any objections shall have been lodged, the District Officer shall publicly notify the nature of such objections, and shall appoint a day not less than seven nor more than twentvone dayß from the date of such notification, for the purpose of bearing and deciding such opposed applications. (3.) If an application is unopposed, and no reason be known to the District Officer why the application should not be granted, he shall issue an interim certificate to the applicant, who thereupon shall pay the fee for one halfyear's occupation. The applicant shall also pay the estimated cost of the survey of the land. The Waste Lands Board, subject to the approval of the Superintendent, may appoint a board (to be termedthe " Board of luquiry ") of three members, for the purpose of deciding opposed applications, of which Board the District Officer shall be Chairman. (I.) Upon the day of hearing, the Board of Inquiry shall proceed to hear the application and any objection to it. and such hearing may be adjourned from time to time for any period not exceeding thirty days at one time. (2.) If the Board find an objection valid, they shall reject the application, and they may grant the objector costs, which Bl.aU be chargeable against the applicant.. If, however, they find that the objection is frivolous, they shall sjrant the applicaut costs, to be paid by the objector. When more than one application shall have been made for the same land, and such application is unopposed, the right to the license shall be determined by lot. Notwithstanding the issue by the District Officer of an intermin certificate, the Waste Lands Board may, within thirty days from the date thereof, refuse to grant the applicant a license to occupy the land. And upon such refusal being determined on, the applicant shall have returned to him the amount paid by him as rent. Whenever an occupation licence, for which an intermin certificate shall have been granted, shall be issued, the District Officer shall give notice to the ■ holder of the certificate, directing him to execute such license within thirty days of the date of the notice. And if such person shall neclect to comply with such notice, or to pay fie rent (if in arrear), he shall be deemed to have relinquished his claim to the land, and the Waste Lands Board shall, by notice of the Gazette, declare such land to be open for application by any other person. A survey of the land applied for shall be made at the cost of the applicant, and such cost shall be repaid to the applicant out of the first fees received for the land surveyed. The Waste Lands Board shall issue a license to occupy land not exceediii<r in the whole 200 acres for a period of three years, at a fee of two shillings and sixpence per annum for each acre, to any person whose application shall have been unopposed, and who shall I have paid a half-year's fee in advance. Every license shall be issued by the Board, and shall contain the following conditions : — (1.) A condition for the payment of the fee in advance, at half-yearly intervals. (2.) A condition that the allotment shall not be sub-let. (3.) A condition that within threp years the whole of the allotment shall be fenced, and that one acre out of every ten shall be cultivated. (4.) A condition annulling the license in case of non-payment of the fees ; or in ease the licensee shall not, within six months after the issue of the license, personally occupy tbe allotment ; or in case improvements of the i value of one pound per acre shall not ! have been made before the end of the third year ; or in ease of the n« n-fulfil-ment of any of. the conditions of the license, or of a violation of any of the provisions of the Act.

(5.) A condition that the licensee, if he «haU capply with the conditions of his license,' shall he entitled at the end of thr^ee ytjars to obtaiaa Crown Grant upon, pay meat of seventeen shillings and sixpence per acre ; and upon pay-

ment of the last sum due on account of rent, or at any lime during the term, upon payment of the difference between the amount of rent and the fees actually paid and the entire Bum of one pound five-shillings per acre, he shall be entitled to a grant in fe*» of tbe lands leased : Provided that in the case of the death of the licensee ifc shall not be obligatory on his executors or administrators to comply with the condition of occupation. (6.) A reservation of a right of entry upon the land occupied at any time, to any person authorised to search and dig for gold therein.

No license or lease shall be deemed to give the 1 iee d see or lessee the right to search for or to take any metal. A charge of £2 shall be made on the issue of each lease, and £2 on the issue of each license : provided that in the case of a lesee under an agricultuial lease granted under the provisions of" The GroldfieM Act, 1866," or any Act amending the same, or passed for the like purposes, of any land within a goldfield, such lessee may apply for such land aforesaid, of an allotment not exceeding in extent ao many acres as, with the land held under lease, will be equal to 200 acres ; and if such lessee apply for any such license, it shall not be subject to the conditions requiring personal occupation if such licensee personally occupy the land held by him under agricultural lease. Hollowaif 3 Ointment and Pills. — In ulcerous complaints, when the vitality of the parts effected is partially destroyed Holloways renovating Ointment renews in the paralyzed flesh and crowed blood the elements of reproduction. While penetrating through the absorbents of the unseen source of tne disorder it opens the pores for the exhalation of the viscid and purulent matter rica • the surface and imparts a degree of vigour to all the external vessels which enable them rapidly to replace the corruption thus discharged, with sound flesh. 11l gatherings sore*, boils, glandular suppurations, etc., are raadily cured in this way the cure being assisted and expedited by the internal operation, of the Pills.