The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Wellington Special Settlements Act Amendment Act, 1874;” and it shall be read with andas part of “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871,” (herein-after referred to as “the said Act”).

Whenever under the powers contained in the First Part of thesaid Act, the Superintendent for the time being of the Province of Wellington, with the advice of his Executive Council, shall have setapart one or more blocks of land for the purposes of the First Part ofthe said Act, he may, with the advice of his Executive Council, fromtime to time, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of theprovince, withdraw any such block or blocks of land from the operationof the said First Part of the said Act, and any such Proclamation mayinclude the whole of any such block or blocks, or only a part or partsthereof, as the case may be.

If the Superintendent shall at any time exercise the power ofwithdrawal conferred upon him by this Act in the manner hereinprovided, it shall be lawful for him, in the manner provided by thesaid Act, to re-proclaim any such block or blocks of lands, or anyparts thereof, so withdrawn as aforesaid, either alone or with anyother lands to be dealt with under and subject to the said First Part of thesaid Act: Provided always that any land included in any such proclamation of withdrawal, and not re-proclaimed as aforesaid, shall besold by the Commissioner of Crown Lands in blocks not exceeding twohundred acres, by public auction, for cash, at such time and place ashe shall appoint, but not at a price less than twenty shillings per acre.