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West Coast Times, Issue 136, 24 February 1866, Page 3

SALE OF TOWN LANDS AT HOKITIKA 8c GREYMOUTH. IN selling the Town Lands of Hokitika and Greymouth, it is the wish of his Honor the Superintendent and the Provincial Government to carry out as nearly as can be done, without violation of law, tho views expressed in tho resolutions passed by tho Select Committee appointed to consider the question. The resolutions referred to were as follows:— , x " 1. That all Town Lands within the Gold-fields Townships, not lawfully occupied, and built upon — i.e., \mder business licenses — when such townships are withdrawn from the gold-fields, should be sold by auction in the ordinary manner provided by tho Land Regulations. "2. That each occupier of such land, lawfully occupied, and having buildings upon it of not less than £25 value, shall have the opportunity afforded to him of securing his holding at the fair market value of land, without taking into consideration tho value of his buildings and the good-will of his business. "3. That m the case of the town of Hokitika, the occupiers of town sections who have* complied with the above conditions within the block bouuded on the east by FitzGeraldstreet and Fitzherbert-strcet, and on the north by Hampden-strcet, should be allowed to secure their holdings on payment of £1 per foot frontage where the 'depth of the sectiou does not exceed one chain, and for a further payment: of 10s. per foot frontage for any additional depth. "4. That the same rule be adopted and the same price fixed for allotments already occupied and built upon in the towns of Greymouth, Rosstown, Kanieri, and other gold-field townships, when they are thrown open for sale.' ' With respect to town sections, which the foregoing resolutions decide should be secured by the holders on payment of £1 a foot, and £1 10s. a foot frontage, the Government are advised that they are legally compelled to put up all town lands to auction at an upset price per acre," and that they cannot therefore, as desired by the committee, sell the sections to the present holders otherwise than by auction. At the same time the Government have decided that the above sections shall not be put up to auction at their instance until an endeavor has been made at the next meeting of the General Assembly to obtain an amendment to the Gold Fields Act, t>y which the wishes of the -committee may be carried out. With respect to the other town sections, all buildings and other improvements will be valued, and the value will be added to the upset price at which the section is put up to auction, in accordance with clause 24 of the " Goldfields Act Amendment Act, > 866." The value of the buildings or improvements will be returned to the present holders immediately after the auction. The sections will be sold to the highest bidder, the upset price being at the rate of £48 an acre. In order that it may be definitely ascertained 4 who, are the persons who arc at present entitled to be considered the owners of improvements in the sections to be put up for sale, it is necessary that the claimant sliould on the day of sale produce a certificate signed by the Warden, shewing him to be the holder of the section orpart of section on which the improvement exists. All persons, therefore, who claim \o be the owners of improvements on any sections to be offered for sale, must on or before the 10th day of March, apply at the Mining Registrar's office for a certificate of registration of thoir sections or part of aectiona. The names of suoh applicants, with a description of their claims, will \>e posted up at the Minipg Registrar's office, for one week from the <llth to the J7th Mavph, flftey whioh,> if no