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Rural Lands.
Rural lands sold in manner directed in Appendix.
46. Subject to the general power of the Land Boards in respect of the disposal of the rural lands within the several land districts constituted under this Act, the said lands within each land district may be disposed of in the manner more particularly provided in the Appendix, relating to such land district, annexed to this Act: Provided always that no smaller quantity than twenty acres and no larger quantity of rural land than three hundred and twenty acres shall be put up for sale by auction in any one lot.
The maximum hereby limited for the sale of rural lands shall not be deemed to apply to land classified as third class land within the Land District of Auckland, or to lands classified within any other land district as pastoral
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or pasture land, or as being unsuited for tillage or agricultural purposes.
So much of the several Acts, Ordinances, and Land
Certain pro-visions of former Acts amended and continued in force.
Regulations heretofore in force specially relating to the alienation of rural lands within the several land districts of the colony, as is set forth in the several Appendices to this Act, and amended as therein appearing, is hereby enacted, and shall be in force within the several land districts to which the aforesaid Appendices respectively relate.
47. In all cases where it is not specially provided otherwise,
Payment of purchase money.
the applicant for the purchase of rural land which is not sold at auction shall pay, by way of deposit at the time of making his application, one-fourth part of the purchase-money of the land applied for, and shall pay the remaining three-fourths of such purchase-money within one month after a public notification shall have been made or a notice shall have been sent by post addressed to the applicant at his last known place of abode that the applicant has been declared the purchaser.
If such purchase-money is not completely paid at the time fixed, the part of the purchase-money so paid by way of deposit as aforesaid shall be forfeited, and the application shall be deemed withdrawn and cancelled, and shall thereupon become null and be void: Provided that if any application be not granted the deposit money shall be returned.
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or pasture land, or as being unsuited for tillage or agricultural purposes.