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All other necessary and proper regulations for carrying out the object of these provisions in respect of " working settlers' land," and especially to secure the bona fide occupation and cultivation of the land, shall be made by the Governor in the terms of purchase so to be made and issued by him, and approved by the Superintendent and Provincial Council as aforesaid. There shall be established in every Province a Board, to be called the Waste Land Board, to consist of a Chairman of the said Board, and of at least two other persons to be nominated by the Governor. All applications for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of waste lands of the Crown shall be preferred to the said Board, who shall hear and determine the same, and all questions relating or incidental thereto, and the decisions of the said Board on all such matters shall be final and conclusive. All meetings of the said Board shall be open to the public, and reasonable public notice shall be given of all business to be transacted thereat. The said Board shall keep a record of their proceedings, in which shall be entered in writing a full and particular account of all business transacted by them, together with a reference to every letter, report, or communication received, or written order given by the said Board, aud also minutes of personal interviews, and a minute of the opinion of the members of the said Board, in case they should differ in opinion : all which shall be open to inspection by any person on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. for each inspection. All evidence given before any Waste Land Board may be given on oath, which oath it shall be lawful for the Chairman of the said Board to administer, and any person wilfully and corruptly giving false evidence before any such Board shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be punished accordingly; and any person wilfully refusing to attend any such board, in obedience to any summons signed by the Chairman thereof, or to give evidence when in attendance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Mr. Wakefield ) Question put—That the Clauses as read be inserted in the Bill. Committee divided. Ayes—lo. NOES—IB. Messrs. Wakefield Messrs. Re vans E. J. Wakefield Sewell Travers Hart Forsaith Porter Lee Gledhill Picard Bacot O'Neill Taylor Greenwood Merriman Mackay Ludlam Macandrew (teller). Weld Brown King Carleton Gray Cutten Fitzgerald Rhodes Wortley (teller.) No. 3.—Further amendments proposed.—That the following Clauses be inserted in the Bill: That in any regulations to be made or issued by the Governor, or by the Superintendent and Provincial Council, under the authority of this Act, there shall be made specific provision for the following purposes, that is to say, That all persons of the working classes immigrating to the Colony of New Zealand, and who shall defray the cost of their own passage to the Colony, shall be entitled, upon the purchase of land within the said Colony, to a remission of purchase money in respect of such purchase, to the amount of the then current rate of steerage passage which would be payable from Great Britain to the said Colony for the passage of such persons, subject nevertheless to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say, 1 1 hat the benefit of such remission cf purchase money shall in no ease be transferred to, or made available by any person or persons other than and except the person or persons actually entitled to the same.