Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1884. SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 147, 2 December 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1884. SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.

We understand from' the Post that the new regulations regarding small farm settlements, referred to by Mr Ballance m his speech the other day at Wanganui, are to the following effect : — Any association of persons of not less than twentyfive, who may be desirous of settling on Crown lands adjacent each other, may arrange with the (Government for a block of lancl on certain conditions. Any block of land to be selected under the regulations shall contain not less than 1000 acres nor more than 10,000 acres; and it will be surveyed into areas of not more than 100 acres or thereabouts. Such portion of the land as may be required for the purposes

of the Government of the Colony, or for educational, recreation, or other public pjrposes, and as shall be aprrored by the Minister, will not be opsn for selection. The [ price of the land will be such as may be arranged between the Minister and association, payable as follows : — One- tenth of the price of the whole block shall be paid by the secretary prior to the allotment of the sections. This will be m satisfaction of the two first halfyearly instalments to be reckoned as due from the next first day of January or July following. Thereafter the payments shall be made by each purchaser every six months m advance, at the rate of onetwentieth of the price of tbe land, until the whole price has been paid. One-third of the price of land will from time to time, as paid to the Government,be repaid to thelocal body of the district or the association, for expenditure on roads m or leading to the block. The purchaser shall be entitled to a Crown grant of the land selected by him, upon proof to the satisfaction of the Minister that he has been continuously m residential occupation of the land selected by him, either personally or by a registered substitute for a period of six years, and has fulfilled all the conditions. Each purchasei shall, within two years from the date of his purchase, bring into cultivation not less than onetenth of the land purchased by him; within four years from the date of his purchase, he shall bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the land purchased by him; and within six years, m addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, he shall have put substantial improvement of a permanent character on the land to the value of £l for every acre of such land. Should any purchaser be compelled to leave the district previous to his being entitled to his Crown grant, and before completing the requisite term of occupation, it shall be competent for the Minister to permit such purchaser to transfer his rights, t : tle, and interest m the land selected to another bom fide settler, w|io shall be deemed to occupy the position of original occupant. Provided always that no purchaser shall be allowed to hold more than 100 acres. No person who is a holder of land on deferred payments, or who has acquired any freehold under that sysiem, or who is holder of any land on perpetual lease, and no person who is the owner* of a pre-emptive right, or tbe owner m fee of more than 320 acres of land m all m New Zealand, and no person who has made an arrangement or agreement to permit any one, save his son or daughter, to acquire by purchase or otherwise the allotment m respect of which his application is made, shall be entitled to become a purchaser.