The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 44
Appendix A. — The Land District of Auckland
Appendix A.
The Land District of Auckland.
Be It Enacted that within the Land District of Auckland—
Classification of rural lands.
(1.) | Eirst class land. |
(2.) | Second-class land. |
(3.) | Third-class land. |
And such classification shall be made by such persons, and according to such regulations and conditions, as the Board shall direct and appoint: Provided that no land which has been declared to be first or second class land shall cease to belong to such classes respectively without the consent previously obtained of the Governor in Council.
Land set apart for homesteads without payment.
Conditions of occupation.
(1.) | The area allowed to be selected by each person of the age of eighteen years or upward shall be of first-class lands fifty acres, or of second-class lands seventy-five acres; and for persons under eighteen years of age, of first-class lands twenty acres, or of second-class lands thirty acres: Provided that the total quantity to be selected by any one family or number of persons occupying the one household shall not exceed two hundred acres of first-class or three hundred acres of second-class lands.page 150 |
(2.) | Within three months after the selection has been approved by the Board, the selector shall commence to reside on his selection, and shall continue to reside continuously thereon for five years from the date of such approval as aforesaid. |
(3.) | Within eighteen months after such approval, the selector shall erect on his selection a permanent dwelling-house of wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to homestead-system selections. |
(4.) | In each year there shall be brought under cultivation one-fifteenth of the area of such selection if open land, and one twenty-fifth if bush land, so that at the end of the term of five years one-third of the selection of open land, or one-fifth if bush land, shall be under cultivation. |
(5.) | Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall render the selection void, and the right of the selector therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited. |
(6.) | At the end of the sand period of five years, a grant or grants shall issue for the land selected: Provided the selector shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid. |
First and second class lands to be sold by auction.
Third class lands may be sold or leased by auction, subject to conditions.
(1.) | The minimum price not being less than five shillings per acre in case of sale, and the minimum rental per acre in case of lease shall be such as shall from time to time be fixed for each such area by the Board. |
(2.) | In the case of leases, there shall be reserved to Her Majesty all minerals and mineral rights within every such area, and full and complete powers to enable such rights to be exercised and enjoyed.page 151 |
(3.) | Reserves may be made of all or any portion of the timber or forest land within such area; but liberty may be given to the purchaser or lessee to cut down and remove such portions of timber or forest as may be required for improvements or domestic use upon the area so sold or leased. |
(4.) | No lease shall be for a longer term than twenty-one years: Provided that every such lease shall contain a proviso authorizing the Board to resume any portion of the lands comprised therein which may be required for the purposes of occupation or settlement: Provided also that no one lease of land shall comprise an area of more than ten thousand acres. |
Resident occupiers in highway districts may graze cattle or. Crown lands.
Non-residents and others running cattle liable for trespass.
Special land orders validation.
Lands formerly purchased by Superintendent to be Crown lands.