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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 44

Appendix B. — The Land District of Taranaki

Appendix B.

The Land District of Taranaki.

Be It Enacted that within the Land District of Taranaki—

Land to be surveyed before sale.

1. No land shall be offered for sale unless the same shall have been previously surveyed, and a map thereof showing the allotments offered for sale, and the reserves for roads and other purposes of public utility marked thereon, such map being open for inspection by the public at the Principal Land Office during usual office hours.

Rural lands for sale by auction.

2. All rural lands not set apart for sale by selection for cash shall be sold by public auction.
3. The upset price for rural land offered for sale by

Upset price.

auction shall be fixed by the Board according to its quality and position, not being less than twenty shillings per acre for bush land, nor less than forty shillings per acre for open land.

Lands open for selection for cash.

4. It shall be lawful for the Board from time to time, by public notification, to set apart allotments of land, which shall be open for sale by selection for cash, and from time to time to revoke such notification with respect to such lands as shall remain unsold at the time of such revocation.

Price per acre.

5. The price at which rural lands shall be offered for sale by selection for cash shall be twenty shillings per acre for bush land, and forty shillings per acre for open land. And in the event of two or more applications for the same land being made on the same day, the upset price at which such land shall be put up at auction shall be twenty shillings per acre for bush land, and forty shillings per acre for open land.

Applications, how made.

6. Any person desirous of purchasing rural land by selection for cash shall make an application in writing for the purchase thereof at the Local Land Office of the district in which the land applied for is situate, and in a form to be prescribed by the Board; and every such application shall be forthwith forwarded to the Principal page 153 Land Office, and the decision of the Board on such application shall be given within two days after such application has been received at the Principal Land Office, if there be no more than one applicant for the same land on the same day.
7. In the event of two or more persons making application

Simultaneous applications.

to purchase the same land on the same day, the said land shall be offered for sale by public auction, open to all bidders, at such time and place as the Board shall appoint.
8. It shall be lawful for the Board from time to

Special lands may be set apart for sale or lease by auction.

time to set apart Crown Lands having any special value from the growth of timber, or from having an available water-power thereon, and to dispose of such Crown lands by lease, with or without preemptive right to purchase, to any person or company who will undertake to establish a sawmill or other special industry, or apply the water-power to any manufacturing purpose, upon such terms as the Board may think fit, subject, however, to the following conditions:—
(1.)The land so disposed of for any such purpose to any person or company shall not exceed five hundred acres in each case.
(2.)No lease shall be given for a period exceeding seven years, and the rent shall not be less than two shillings per acre: Provided that it shall be in the discretion of the Board to charge a royalty of not less than sixpence per hundred superficial feet of sawn timber in lieu of rent.
(3.)No land shall be sold or agreed to be sold under this section at a less price than twenty shillings per acre.
(4.)It shall be a condition in every lease or agreement to sell, that if the saw-mill or other special industry or manufactory to be established is not so established within the period of one year, or such less period as the Board shall determine, the lease and the agreement to sell shall become void, and the land shall then revert to the Board, and shall then be subject to be dealt with as Crown lands under this Act.
(5.)Such lease or agreement shall be sold by public auction.page 154
(6).No greater quantity than one thousand acres shall be set aside in any one year under this clause.

Price per acre of special value land.

9. It shall be lawful for the Board to reserve any land of special value and offer the same for sale by public auction at a minimum price of not less than forty shillings per acre.

Maximum of allotments selected on deferred payments.

10. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections fifty-six and fifty-seven it shall be lawful for the Board to allow any selector of land on deferred payments to select more than one allotment of land, provided that no more than three hundred and twenty acres in the whole be so selected, and that no allotment be selected in part.

Board may add to upset price value of improvements.

11. Whenever improvements have heretofore been made on any section of rural land, the value of which should in the opinion of the Land Board be secured to the occupant of such section, it shall be lawful for the Board, on its recommendation to that effect having been approved in such case by the Governor, to add to the upset price of such section the value of such improvements, to be ascertained in such manner as shall be decided by the Board with such approval as aforesaid; in which case, should the occupant become the purchaser, it shall not be necessary for him to pay the value so ascertained, but the same shall be allowed to him as if paid, and if any other person become the purchaser the amount of such value shall be paid over to the occupant by the Receiver of Land Revenue: Provided always that this power shall only be exercised by the Board within twelve months from the passing of this Act.