Priority of choice for the town sections of New Plymouth

SETTLEMENT of NEW PLYMOUTH, under the Plymouth Company of New Zealand.

The Directors of the Plymouth Company of New Zealand hereby give notice, that the priority of choice for the whole of the town sections (2,200 in number) having been decided, 600 numbers of choice, ranging from 46 to 2,199 have been selected from those which have fallen to the Company: and 100 of these choices, added to 100 50-acre rural sections, are now offered exclusively to colonists who depart with the first expedition, or within four months: second set of 100 to colonists who depart with the second expedition, or within six months; and a third set of 100 to colonists who depart with the third expedition, or within eight months from this date respectively.

Each separate set of purchasers will draw for priority of choice as between themselves, and the first set will first choose at pleasure out of 600, then the second out of 500, and lastly, the third out of 400, of the numbers above referred to.

The range of choice offered by the directors will enable purchasers drawing consecutive numbers to choose town sections adjoining, in many instances to the extent of an acre, and in some of an acre and a half. The rural sections may in all cases be chosen adjoining, to any extent, in the order of presenting the land-orders in New Zealand.

The price of each double land order for the united sections is £75, a deposit of £20 to be paid on application, £25 three days before the order of choice is drawn, of which 21 days' notice will be given, and the balance on delivery of the land order, or on embarkation. An addition has been made to the Emigration Fund, from which liberal passage allowances are made, and a special fund is set apart for extra allowance to capitalists. Printed particulars of the allowances in detail, with the numbers open for choice, and other requisite information, may be had on application to the Secretary: to John Ward, Esq., New Zealand House, London: or to any agent of the Company.

The Board have suspended sales, except to colonists, until further notice. By order of the Board, THOMAS WOOLLCOOMBE, Sec. Office of the Company. 5, Octagon, Plymouth. Aug. 31.

- The Times, 10 September 1840

[The first Plymouth Company settler ship, the William Bryan, had not yet departed Plymouth for New Zealand. It sailed from Plymouth in November 1840, arriving in New Plymouth at the end of March 1841] 

See also:
History: The last sight of old Plymouth, 6 April 2009
History: Old New Plymouth, 9 February 2014
History: Writing to the New Plymouth colony, 28 November 2015