Manner of Making Application.

2. On and after a certain day upon which blocks of first and second class waste lands of the Crown shall have been proclaimed open for bonâ fide occupation under the said system, every person taking possession of any of the said land shall make in terms of Form "A," written application to, and cause such application to be lodged with, the District Surveyor of the locality in which the land so proclaimed is situate, or such other person, and at such place as shall from time to time be appointed.

3. Every such application as aforesaid shall be lodged during office hours (viz.: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), and shall state the name or names and age or ages of the applicant or applicants, and shall describe the situation, class of land, and number of acres he or they has or have taken possession of, together with the date whereon he or they took possession of the same, as also to whom it is intended that a grant or grants shall issue upon fulfilment of the conditions of selection.

7. In applying for land, that application which shall be first lodged with the District Surveyor, or other person, as aforesaid, appointed to receive the same, shall be page 187 deemed to be the prior application, and shall entitle the person in whose favour it is made to the right of priority of selection.

8. Where it shall appear that but one application has in manner aforesaid been received for any one piece of land, the person or persons making such application shall be deemed to be in possession of, and entitled to occupy the same.

9. But if at any time two or more applications be simultaneously received for one and the same piece of land, or any part thereof, the District Surveyor, or other person to be appointed as aforesaid, shall at once, in the presence of the applicants, or of the persons presenting such applications, decide by lot the priority of choice.

11. Every selector shall forward to the Waste Lands Board at the expiration of twelve months from the date of his taking possession of the land, and upon the same date in every subsequent year during his term of occupation, a return in writing, in form lettered "B," setting forth the nature and extent of the improvements effected by him during the preceding year.