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7. The land shall be disposed of at a rental of not less than 1s. an acre for the first term, and thereafter at such rental as may be assessed in manner provided by Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

8. One-third of the rents paid from time to time shall, for the first fifteen years, be repaid to the local body of the district for expenditure on roads in or leading to the block.

9. Each settler shall, within two years from the date of his selection, bring into cultivation not less than one-tenth of the land selected by him.

(a.) Each settler shall, within four years from the date of his selection, bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the land selected by him.

(b.) Each settler shall, within six years from the date of his selection, 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.

10. 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.

11. Cultivation shall mean—
    (1.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence;
    (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.

12. In the event of the death of a settler, his interest in the allotment will revert to his legal representatives, who may dispose of it to a bonâ fide settler approved by the Commissioner; and the purchaser shall be deemed to stand in the position of the original settler.

13. Should any settler be compelled to leave the district previous to his completing the requisite term of occupation, it shall be competent for the Commissioner to permit such settler 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 the original occupant: Provided always that no settler shall be allowed to hold more than 200 acres under these regulations.

14. No person shall be entitled to hold land under these regulations unless he shall have served at least five years in the Police and Armed Constabulary Force, and shall have retired for the purpose of settling on the said land, or shall have been discharged on reduction since the first day of January, 1882, or who, with permission of the Defence Minister, is permitted to serve with the intention of settling thereon; and in every case he must have received a good character on discharge, or at the time of receiving permission from the Defence Minister as above.

15. 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 Commissioner.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of the Matamau Village Settlement, in the Hawke’s Bay Land District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor,
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of March, 1886.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same: And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto for sale as a village settlement: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon which the said village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

1. The lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto shall be disposed of as village and small-farm allotments upon deferred payments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, at the Land Office, Napier.

3. The lands, which are disposed of by sale upon deferred payments, shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

4. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments.

5. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

6. If there should be more than one application for any village allotment in Schedule I., the right to occupy the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only; and, if there should be more than one application for any small-farm allotment in Schedule II., the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

7. Each applicant will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Hawke’s Bay Land District one-tenth of the price if the area of the allotment is twenty acres or under, and one-twentieth of the price if the area is greater than twenty acres. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

8. The purchaser of any lands described in the First or Second Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885,” relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

SCHEDULE I.
VILLAGE ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Matamau Village Settlement.

SCHEDULE II.
SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Matamau Village Settlement.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.