1. Notwithstanding anything contained in section one page 177 hundred and twenty-one of this Act, all rural lands in Southland shall be open for sale.

2. A hook to be called the "Application Book" shall be kept open during office hours at the Principal Land Office, in which the name of every person desiring to make any application to the Board shall be written in order by himself or any person duly authorised on his behalf; and the Board shall consider and determine all applications in the order in which they shall appear in the Application Book: Provided that if any person shall not appear himself, or by some person duly authorized on his behalf, before the Board when called in his turn, his application shall be dismissed until his name shall appear again in the book in order.

3. All rural lands not included within any hundred now existing or hereafter to be constituted are or shall be divided into agricultural and pastoral lands; and the price of agricultural land shall be forty shillings per acre, and the price of pastoral land shall be twenty shillings per acre, and the price of land within the hundreds now existing within the district shall be twenty shillings per acre: Provided always that the price of land set aside for deferred payments shall be the same as that in the Land District of Otago.

4. Immediately on the payment, in the manner directed by this Act, of the whole purchase-money, the purchaser shall receive from the Board a license to occupy', and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be the land shall be laid off as nearly in accordance with the description given by the purchaser in his application as this Act will admit: Provided that, whenever the land selected lies without the surveyed districts, the expense of the survey and of connecting such survey with the existing surveys shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys with the Receiver of Land Revenue; and such surveys shall be made as soon as practicable: Provided always that, should any section when surveyed prove to differ in any respect from that intended by the purchaser, the Board will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase-money be returned: Provided also that, if the surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in the selected page 178 locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Receiver of Land Revenue shall repay so much of the purchase-money as exceeds the price of the land to be granted. The license to occupy shall in any such case be amended by the Board in accordance with the report of the surveyor, and the Crown grant shall be made out in accordance therewith, and such license shall be returned to the Board when the Crown grant shall be issued.

5. Whenever the Board shall hereafter receive an application for the purchase of any land, it shall be lawful for the Board, at any time within thirty days in the case of unsurveyed lauds after a survey of the lands has been made, and in the case of surveyed lands within thirty days after application, to grant the application either as to the whole or to any part of the land applied for, or to refuse to grant the application either as to the whole or as to part of such land, and to return the moneys deposited on account of purchase-money, or such part thereof as has been deposited on account of the portion of the land applied for and the application for which shall not be granted: Provided always that no such land shall, after such refusal, be open for sale or application until thirty days' public notice thereof shall have been given.