WASTE LANDS REGULATIONS AMENDMENT BILL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 423, 22 November 1856, Page 6

WASTE LANDS REGULATIONS AMENDMENT BILL.

By this bill the following clauses are substituted for those bearing the same numbers in the original Land Regulations : — 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of rural land shall be sold containing less than twenty acres; but any section, so limited by frontage lines or private lanos as to contain less than twenty acres, may be sold by auction at the upset price of 40s. per acre, the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may.be in accordance with the regulations herein contained, applicable to the sale of Town Land. Provided nevertheless that if any section so limited shall be included in a pasturage license with preemptive right, the holders of such license shall be entitled to exercise such pre-emption under these regulations, upon payment of the sum of £10 for such section. 43. If any person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete within a given time tiny public road, bridge or drain, or any part of any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security as the Superintendent may require for the* due completion of such contract, shall select such portion of rural land as lie shall be willing to accept by way of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation for such work ; it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion of land from public sale for such given time, but no longer; and such person shall, on the completion of such contract, be entitled to a free grant of Hitch land; or so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one .acre for every two pounds sterling, which the Superintendent shall certify to,the Waste Lands Board to be the bona fide value of the work so done by such person, according to the prices for work and materials at the time of performing such contract, current in the district. Every tiuch reservation of land from public

sale shall be published in the ' Government Gazette' of the province, as directed in clause 19 of these regulations. No such reservation shall continue in force for a longer period than twelve calendar months from the date on which it shall have been made. No land included in a pasturage license with pre-emptive right shall, as aga nst the holder of such pre-emptive right, be so reserved or granted until be shall have been allowed the option of purchasing such land in the manner prescribed in clauses Gdi and 60 of these regulations. No greater amount of land than 250 acres shall, under the provisions of this clause, be reserved or granted to any one person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by the Provincial Council. No greater amount of land than 1,000 acres in the, aggregate shall be reserved or granted under the provisions of this clause without the special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided always that every parcel of land so granted shall be subject to the same conditions as to form and frontage as any rural land sold under these regulations. Provided also, that no -application for less than twenty acres shall be received under this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of a less extent than twenty acres of land, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash, upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural lands under these regulations.