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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

"Hutt Small Farm Association," upon the terms
hereinafter mentioned: And whereas the said Super-
intendent, with the advice of his Executive Council as
aforesaid, hath requested the Governor to sanction
the said terms:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in him by the said Act; and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Colony, doth hereby sanction the terms
set forth in the Schedule hereto as the terms under
which the said proposed special settlement shall be
made under the said Act.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
For the Occupation and Purchase of the Block of
Land proposed to be set aside for Special Settlement
as aforesaid.

Interpretation.

1. In the construction of these terms and conditions,
   unless the context shall otherwise require, the follow-
   ing expressions shall have the meanings hereby
   assigned to them:-"Association" shall mean the
   "Hutt Small Farm Association." "Land" shall
   mean the block of land described in the foregoing
   Proclamation. "Purchaser" shall mean any members
   of the Association, or the Trustees thereof, who may
   purchase any of the land hereby set aside. "The
   said Act," "The Wellington Special Settlements Act,
   1871."

To whom Purchase Money to be Paid.—Limitation of Time.
2. All moneys required to be paid by any purchaser
of the said land under these terms and conditions,
shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, at
Wellington, and receipts given by him shall be
sufficient evidence of such payments as may be therein
expressed.

The payment of purchase money, under these terms
and conditions, shall not extend beyond a period of
three years from the date of the foregoing Proclama-
tion.

Rules of Association so far Applicable.
3. Subject to the foregoing terms and conditions,
the Rules of the Association hereinafter set forth shall,
so far as applicable, be deemed to regulate the terms
on which the special settlement shall be made and
occupied under the said Act.

RULES.

1. The object of the Association shall be the
   establishment of a Small Farm Settlement and
   Township in the District of Manawatu, in the Pro-
   vince of Wellington.

2. The business of the Association shall be managed
   by a Committee of seven persons, including Secretary
   and Treasurer, to be elected by the Shareholders
   annually, whose duty it shall be to carry out the
   objects of the Association.

3. No question of vital importance to the Associ-
   ation shall be decided by the Committee, so as to
   bind the members, unless resolved upon at a general
   meeting of members, due notice of which shall be
   given, and all questions carried and decided upon by
   a majority of the members then present shall be
   binding upon the Association, unless contrary to the
   rules and law under which the Association shall be
   formed.

4. The members of the Association shall be males
   not under eighteen years of age, who shall hold at
   least one share, and shall undertake to occupy and
   pay for the land in conformity with these Regulations.

5. Occupation shall be the enclosing of at least
   five acres of land with a good and substantial fence,
   and the erection of a tenement the value of which
   shall be ten pounds, before the end of the second
   year, and the actual residence of a member himself,
   or a son of not less than seventeen years of age,
   during the whole of the third and last year for which
   the reserve is proclaimed.

6. The settlement shall be divided into allotments
   of from forty to two hundred acres, according to
   requirements of shareholders, with a quarter-acre
   town allotment for each and every forty acres of
   rural land, together with reserves for public purposes,
   which will be laid aside by the Government.

7. Each share shall represent forty acres of rural
   land and a quarter-acre town allotment, and no
   member shall be allowed to subscribe for or occupy
   more than five such allotments.

8. The town shall be laid off in such manner as a
   majority of the shareholders may decide at a meeting
   called for business purposes, and no member shall be
   allowed to draw for more than three town allotments
   fronting the main road, the same to be fixed accord-
   ing to the following scale, that is to say :- A member
   holding 200 acres of rural land may have three town
   sections fronting the main road; holding 160 acres
   may have two sections on main road; holding 120
   acres may have two sections on main road; holding
   80 acres may have one on main road; but any
   member having only one forty acre allotment may
   choose his town section on either of the main roads;
   the remaining allotments that members are entitled
   to may be taken on any of the other streets in the
   town. The surplus town allotments shall be disposed
   of in such a manner as a majority of the members
   may think best.

9. Rural sections shall be chosen by ballot, and
   any member who may have the last order of choice
   of farm sections shall have first choice in each series
   for town allotments that he may be entitled to.

10. The price of each 40 acres shall be £40, payable
    every three months, at the rate of one pound for each
    share per month, until the members shall have paid
    £40 for each and every share he may hold, but every
    member will be at liberty to pay larger instalments
    or the whole purchase money in one payment, should
    it suit his convenience so to do. The price of each
    quarter-acre town allotment shall be one pound,
    payable on the day of drawing.

11. Each member shall pay or cause to be paid
    his instalments from time to time to the Treasurer,
    whose receipt shall be a sufficient voucher for such
    payment. Payment shall be made on the first
    Friday in September, on the first Friday in Decem-
    ber, on the first Friday in March, and on the first
    Friday in June in each year.

12. Any surplus money arising out of the sale
    of town allotments, fines, or entrance fees, shall be
    applied by the Committee to the payment of prelimi-
    nary expenses which have and will be incurred
    by the Committee in establishing the Association,
    and to any other purpose which a majority of the
    members shall decide at a general meeting.

13. All moneys paid to the Treasurer on account
    of the Association shall be placed in the Bank of
    New Zealand to the credit of the Association, and
    all moneys drawn from the Bank shall be by cheque
    signed by the Treasurer and counter-signed by two
    of the Committee.

14. Any member who shall fail to pay his quarterly
    instalments on or before the day appointed, shall
    pay to the Committee, for the benefit of the Asso-
    ciation, a fine of one shilling per share for the first