Num. 47.

603

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1876.

Lands set apart in the Seventy-Mile Bush for Special Settlement.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1876.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Hawke’s Bay Special Settlements Act, 1872,” it is, among other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, with the consent of the Provincial Council, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said province, to set aside, out of the waste lands within the Province of Hawke’s Bay, the Native title of which has been extinguished, any block or blocks for the purpose of special settlement, not exceeding in the whole thirty thousand acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the Governor in Council, anything in the existing regulations for the management or disposal of the waste lands in the province to the contrary notwithstanding:

And whereas the said Superintendent, with the consent of the Provincial Council as aforesaid, hath proposed to set aside the block of land in the Seventy-Mile Bush District, in the said province, described in the First Schedule hereto, containing two thousand five hundred and eighty-four acres, more or less, as a Special Settlement under the said Act, for the members of an association called the Waipukarau Small Farm Association, upon the terms hereinafter mentioned:

And whereas the said Superintendent hath requested the Governor to sanction the said terms:

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 Second Schedule hereto as the terms under which the said proposed special settlement shall be made under the said Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that block of land estimated to contain two thousand five hundred and eighty-four acres, situate in the Tua Tua Block, in the Seventy-Mile Bush District, in the Province of Hawke’s Bay: one portion of the said block containing 1050 acres, more or less, bounded towards the North-east by Sections Nos. 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, and 163; towards the North-west by Section No. 163; again towards the North-east by a public road; towards the South-east by the Railway Reserve; and towards the South-west and West by the Makotoku Creek. The other portion of the said block, containing 1534 acres, more or less, being bounded towards the North-west by the Railway Reserve and by a Public Reserve, 1250 links; towards the East by the Manawatu River; towards the South-west by Rural Section No. 105 in the Tua Tua Block, 2795 links, and by line across a road; towards the South-east by a public road; towards the North-east by the abutment of a road, and by Rural Section No. 106 of the Tua Tua Block, 1760 links; again towards the South-east by the Manawatu River; and again towards the South-west by the Makotoku Creek to the Railway Reserve.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Terms and Conditions for the Occupation and Purchase of the Block of Land proposed to be set aside for Special Settlement as aforesaid.

1. The name of this Association shall be the “Waipukarau Small Farm Association.”

2. The object of this Association shall be the formation of a Small Farm Association, to purchase and occupy the Tua Tua Block, Seventy-Mile Bush, Hawke’s Bay.

3. The business of the Association shall be managed by a Secretary, Treasurer, and five members of Committee—five to be a quorum—to be elected annually, whose duty it will be to carry out the objects of the Association. The Secretary shall act as Manager, and shall have charge of all books and other property, receive and answer all corre