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or part of the land comprised therein is required for any of the purposes set forth in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of clause 16 hereof, or in clause 18 hereof, in which case the selection shall be deemed not to have been made, or, at the option of the Company, the selection may be varied so as to exclude the land objected to, as the case may be : Provided, nevertheless, that the Minister for Public Works may approve any selection at any time before the said period of two months shall have elapsed, by notifying to the Company his assent thereto in writing. 30. The survey of lands selected by the Company or dealt with under these presents shall be made, and the cost of the same ascertained, in the following manner :— (1.) The boundaries of the blocks selected by the Company, or to which the Company shall have become entitled, shall be surveyed, and the costs of such survey, and of the survey of boundaries common to such blocks and to the lands to be hereafter reserved or set apart as aforesaid, shall be borne one-half by the Queen and the other half by the Company. (2.) In the case of any selection of timber-land by the Company under clause 18 hereof, or of any lands dealt with under clause 33 hereof, the cost solely belonging to the survey of any such selection in the first case, and the whole cost of the survey of lands dealt with under clause 33, shall respectively be borne by the Company. (3.) In any case where a part of a block may be selected by the Company any extra cost of survey occasioned by such part-selection shall be borne by the Company. All such surveys shall be made by or under the direction of the Surveyor-General, whose certificate of the cost thereof shall be binding and conclusive on the parties hereto, and the amount of such cost shall be ascertained and settled as each block is surveyed, or as soon thereafter as possible, and the amount shown to be due by the Company shall, on demand, be paid by it to the Queen, or any of her officers appointed to receive the same. 31. Until the particular lands to be respectively retained or acquired by the Queen and the Company shall be actually ascertained the Queen will not, without the written consent of the Company for that purpose first had and obtained, grant any leases or licenses of or otherwise alienate or deal with any of the lands within the authorised area described as available for selection by the Company, except for mining purposes under the Acts relating to mining, and for cutting and removing timber for saw-milling industries and mining purposes, as hereinbefore mentioned in clause 18 hereof, and also for pastoral purposes under any Act authorising licenses for such purposes, and except as provided in these presents. 32. Except where otherwise provided in these presents, and without prejudice to the special powers conferred on the Company by clauses 18 and 33 hereof, the Company shall select the lands to which it may from time to time become entitled in blocks in the manner following, that is to say, —■ (1.) If the Company is entitled to the whole of the area in any block delineated on the said map marked "Bl," within which it may desire to select land, then the Company shall select the whole of the said block. (2.) If the Company is not entitled to the whole of the area within the block in which it may desire to select land, then a portion of the said block may be selected, provided that the frontage of the portion so selected shall be proportionate to the frontage of the whole block as the area

Proviso that Minister may approve selection before expiry of such two months.

Cost of surveys of lands selected by Company, and boundaries common thereto and to lands reserved, to be equally shared between Queen and Company.

Subdivisional surveys of lands dealt with under certain clauses to be borne by Company.

Surveys to be under direction of Sur-veyor-General, and cost to be settled by him.

Queen not to grant leases or licenses of land in authorised area without consent of Company, except in certain cases.

Company to select lands in blocks or parts of blocks, except in certain cases.