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Pastoral Lands May be Sold on Deferred Payments.
75. In this portion of this Act relating to the sale of
Lands to be classified as agricultural and pastoral respectively.
pastoral lands on deferred payments, the term "pastoral lands" shall include only such lands as shall be classified in manner herein provided as lands not being suited for agriculture.
For the purpose of such classification the Governor may from time to time appoint three Commissioners in any district, of whom the Chief Surveyor of the district shall be one, to report to him upon any rural lands in the district on which the Governor may require such Commissioners to report, and the said Commissioners shall furnish to the Governor accordingly a description of the boundaries of the land within such district on which they may be required to report as aforesaid, classified by them as agricultural and pastoral land respectively, which description shall be
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published, in the Gazette, and for the purposes of this portion of this Act the land described in such publication as pastoral land, or such portions thereof as the Governor may determine, may be dealt with as herein provided for the sale and disposal of pastoral land.
Power to set aside lands.
76. The Governor may from time to time set apart blocks of pastoral lands for sale on deferred payments. Such lands, if held under pastoral license or lease and not open for sale, may be sold not more than twelve months before the expiry of the then existing licenses or leases, the sale to be subject to, and occupation to commence at
the termination of, the lease or license: Provided always that the sections in this Act referring to the disposal of pastoral land on deferred payments shall not be applied to any land in the Land District of Canterbury held under pastoral license until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
Public auction: price 20s. per acre.
77. Such lands shall be sold at public auction at an upset price of not less than twenty shillings per acre. The Board may with the approval of the. Governor increase the upset price of any allotment or allotments which may be considered by it to be of special value.
78. The land shall be surveyed into suitable allotments before sale; and no allotment shall be less than five hundred (500) nor more than five thousand (5,000) acres.
One allotment may be purchased.
79. No purchaser shall be entitled to purchase more than one allotment.
80. The Board shall keep a register of the names and descriptions of all purchasers, showing the extent of land purchased in the name of each person.
81. Any person of the age of eighteen years and upwards may become a purchaser hereunder; but no purchaser having assigned his interest, and no person who shall at any time have acquired the freehold of any pastoral land under the deferred-payment system, shall be allowed at any time to make a second purchase hereunder.
82. No married woman not having obtained a decree of judicial separation or a protection order, no person who at the time of purchase has made any arrangement or agreement to permit any other person to acquire by purchase or otherwise the allotment be has bought at auction, or any part thereof, or his interest therein, shall be entitled to hold hereunder.
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83. Every purchaser, before making his purchase, shall
Statutory declaration to be made of bonâ fides.
make and produce a statutory declaration to the following effect:—
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published, in the Gazette, and for the purposes of this portion of this Act the land described in such publication as pastoral land, or such portions thereof as the Governor may determine, may be dealt with as herein provided for the sale and disposal of pastoral land.