NEW LAND REGULATIONS.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1360, 1 December 1884, Page 2

NEW LAND REGULATIONS.

Per Press Association, Weliington, Nov. 80. It is understood that the new regulations regarding small farm settle:neni3, preferred to by Mr Ballance m his speech at Wan» ganui are to the following effect : — " Any association of persons of not less than 25, who may be desirous of settling on Crown lands adjacent to each other, may arrange with the Government for a bock of Janl on certain conditions. Any block of land to be selected under these regulations shall com tain not les3 than 1000 acres t ncr more than 10,000 acres, and it will be surveyed iato areas of nob more than 100 aorea or thereabouts. Such portions of land as may be required for purposes of the Government of the colony, or for educational, recreation or other public purposes, and as shall be ap« proved by a Minister, will not be open for selection. The price of land shall be such S3 may be arranged between a Minister and ! an associa'ion, payable as follows : Onetenth of the price of the whole block sha'l be paid by the secretary prior to allotment of sections ; this will be m satisfaction of the two first half-yearly instalments to be reckoned as due from the next first day of January or July, and following thereafter the payments shall be made' by each purchaser every six months m advance at the rate of one-twentieth of the price of land, until the whole price has been paid One-third of the price of land wi'l, from time to time, as p-iicl to Groveinmeat, be repaid to a local b ><jy of the district or an as : # Nation for, expenditure on road« m ur :eading- to the blocks The pur chaser sh-»U bu entitled t'> a Crown graurot the 1 nd selected by him, upon proof to ibe satisf&c'ion uf the Minister that he has been con'inuously m residential occupationof the land sel cted by him either persona-ly or by a registered substitute for a period of six years, and has fulfilled all conditions. Each purchaser shall, within two years from the date of hs purchase bring into cultivation not less than one fifth of the laud purchased by him. Within four years from date of his purchaca he shall bring into cul-> tivation not less than one-fifth of the. land purchased by him ; and within — years, m addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the lane% he shall bave put substantial improvements of a permanent character on the land to the value of £1 for every acr.s of such l'nd. Should any purchaser b? compelled to leave the district previous to his being entitled to his down grant, and before completing the requisite .t-jrai of occupation, it shall be competent for the Mnist^r to permit such purchaser to transfer hi V right, title, and interest m the land selected to another bona fide settler, who shall be deemed to occupy the position of the original occupant, provided always that no purchaser shall be allowed to holi more than 100 acres. No person who is a holder of land on deferred payments, or who has acquired any freehold under that system, or who is a holder of any hnd on perpetual lease, and no person who ia the owner of a pre-<emp ive right, or owner m fee, of more than 320 acres of land ii all m New Zea« land, and no person who has made an arrangement or arrangements to permit anyooe. save his son or daughter, to acqair > by purchase or ofcuerw'se, an allotment m respect of which his application is made, shall ta entitled to become a purchaser.