1654
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 126

Land Revenue (who will in most instances be the local Postmaster), and receipts given by him shall be sufficient discharges for the payment of the moneys therein respectively acknowledged to have been received.

10. The purchaser shall be entitled to a Crown grant of the land selected by him, upon proof to the satisfaction of the Minister that he has been continuously in residential occupation of the land selected by him, either personally or by a registered substitute for a period of six years, and has fulfilled all the conditions.

11. All usual and accustomed fees for the time being payable for the issue of the Crown grant shall be paid by the purchaser.

12. The purchasers shall be members of the association; and shall not be under eighteen years of age.

13. The secretary shall inform the Minister of the names of the purchasers, and also furnish the Minister with minutes of proceedings of the association if so required.

14. A certificate signed by the secretary of the association shall be sufficient evidence that the person claiming to select land is a member thereof.

15. Each purchaser shall, within two years from the date of his purchase, bring into cultivation not less than one-tenth of the land purchased by him.

Each purchaser shall, within four years from the date of his purchase, bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the land purchased by him.

Each purchaser shall, within six years from the date of his purchase, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character on the land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land.

16. The expression “substantial improvements of a permanent character” shall, for all purposes of these regulations, mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush or scrub, cultivation, planting with trees or live hedges, the laying-out and cultivating of gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erection of any building.

17. Cultivation shall mean—
    (1.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence; or
    (2.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or other cultivated grass; or
    (3.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other crops therein; and, in case of bush lands, the felling and clearing of timber and sowing of grass.

18. In the event of the death of a purchaser before having received a grant of his land, his interest in the allotment will revert to his legal representatives, who may dispose of it to a bonâ fide settler approved by the Minister; and the purchaser shall be deemed to stand in the position of the original occupant.

19. Should any purchaser be compelled to leave the district previous to his being entitled to his Crown grant, and before completing the requisite term of occupation, it shall be competent for the Minister to permit such purchaser to transfer his rights, title, and interest in the land selected to another bonâ fide settler, who shall be deemed to occupy the position of original occupant: Provided always that no purchaser shall be allowed to hold more than 100 acres under these regulations.

20. No person who is a holder of land on deferred payments, or who has acquired any freehold under that system, or who is holder of any land on perpetual lease, and no person who is the owner of a pre-emptive right, or who is the owner in fee of more than 320 acres of land in all in New Zealand, and no person who has made an arrangement or agreement to permit any one, save his son or daughter, to acquire by purchase or otherwise the allotment in respect of which his application is made, shall be entitled to become a purchaser under these regulations.

21. Any purchaser who shall fail to comply with these regulations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Minister, forfeit his interest in the land selected, and the Minister shall cause such interest to be sold by public auction to a bonâ fide settler; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority for such forfeiture and reallotment. Any settler so purchasing shall be deemed to stand in the position of the original purchaser.

22. The association may make such rules and regulations from time to time as it may deem necessary, subject to the approval of the Minister.

23. In case any doubt shall arise as to the construction of these terms and conditions, with reference to the selection and occupation or clearing of any land, or otherwise arising thereunder, the same shall be settled by the Minister.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and, in the case of any reserves made under the authority of section one hundred and forty-four of “The Land Act, 1877,” if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserves or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of a portion of the reserve described in the first column of the Schedule hereto, the area of which is described in the second column of the said Schedule, to the specific purpose set opposite such description in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

New Zealand Industrial Exhibition.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION of New Zealand, to be held at Wellington about the 1st August, 1885.

The following Committee of Aid and Advice are gazetted (with power to add thereto). Executive sub-committees will be selected from their number:—

His Worship the Mayor of Wellington, President.
Hon. A. de B. Brandon, M.L.C.
Hon. P. A. Buckley, M.L.C.
Hon. Sir W. Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G., M.L.C.,
Hon. M. S. Grace, M.L.C.
Hon. R. Hart, M.L.C.
Hon. G. R. Johnson, M.L.C.
Hon. John Johnston, M.L.C.
Hon. W. B. D. Mantell, M.L.C.
Hon. J. Martin, M.L.C.