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 (5) Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall render the selection void, and the right of the selector therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited.

(6) At the end of the said period of five years, a grant or grants shall issue for the land selected: Provided the selector shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid.

DESCRIPTION AND SITUATION OF LAND.

Four thousand acres (more or less), situate in the Gillespie’s and Karangarua Survey Districts; bounded towards the south by the road reserve along the Weheka or Cook’s River; towards the east by a line bearing `15 deg.30min. Through trig station J.D.; towards the north by foot of steep terrace: and towards the west by a line parallel with east boundary.

And in pursuance of a further resolution of the Land Board, the said land is hereby declared open for selection under the said provisions on the 1st day of November, 1880.

J. GILES - Commissioner of Crown Lands

At the time of this notice, 1880, the Sullivan children would have been too young for their father, still supporting his family by retrieving gold from the black sands of Gillespie’s Beach, to take advantage of this scheme, although other Gillespie’s families probably did so.

As early as February, 1866, a Government Proclamation also set aside blocks of land for the future sites of towns throughout Westland, including Weheka.

Distinction needs to be made between land purchased freehold and leasehold land.