1054
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

4. No lease shall be issued, or any transfer of the interest of a settler allowed, except with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands to be first obtained, until after the payment of the first half-year's rent.

5. Renewals of leases shall be subject in all respects to the provisions of sections 151 to 155 of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

6. Married men will have preference as selectors under these regulations..

7. No allotment shall exceed in area fifty acres.

8. Subject to the following conditions, and within the first five years of the date of the selection, an advance of a sum not exceeding £20 will be made to assist a selector in the erection of a house on his selection; and in bush lands a further sum not exceeding £2 10s. an acre up to but not exceeding an area of 20 acres will be advanced for bush-felling and for grassing :-

(a.) Each settler must begin bush-felling immediately; but in any case where this is not done the Steward should report the circumstance to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district.

(b.) Those settlers who may desire advances of money in terms of these regulations will obtain payment monthly from the Steward, on his valuation of work done.

(c.) Advances will be made for the combined operations of under-scrubbing and bush-felling at the rate of £1 5s. an acre, and for burning, grassing, fencing, and other improvements, £1 5s. an acre—in all, £2 10s. an acre—up to the limit of 20 acres.

(d.) The erection of a dwellinghouse must be completed within six months of the date of selection; but in bush lands this may be deferred until immediately after the first burn, but no longer.

(e.) Applications for advances may be made either to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district or to the Steward of Village Settlements.

(f.) No advances will be made on dwellinghouses until they are completed and ready for occupation.

9. The annual rent shall be 5 per cent. on the capital value of the land, together with 5 per cent. on such sums as may be advanced in terms of clause 8, payable half-yearly, on the 1st day of January or July next ensuing after the lapse of six months from the dates of the selection and advances respectively.

10. All applications for land under these regulations shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district. Where more applications than one are made on the same day for the same land, the right to occupy the land applied for shall, subject to clause 6, be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

11. Each selector or transferee will be required to occupy his selection as his home, and to make permanent improvements as required by clauses 12 and 13.

12. Each selector shall within two years cultivate one acre, and within four years the half of the remainder, of his selection.

13. Permanent improvement shall mean—

(a.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence; or

(b.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or other cultivated grass; or

(c.) 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.

14. Selectors shall not subdivide or sublet their holdings; but, with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district, they may transfer them, provided that all the conditions of these regulations have been fulfilled to date of application to transfer. No person who has an interest in any land of more than an acre in extent in the colony shall be eligible as a selector under these regulations.

15. No selector shall hold more than one allotment under these regulations, which shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.

16. Any selector who shall fail to comply with these regulations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, forfeit his interest in the land selected.

17. 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.

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SCHEDULE.

FORM OF LEASE.

This deed, made the day of , 18 , between the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of (who, with his successors and assigns, is hereinafter termed “the lessor”), of the one part, and of , in the Provincial District of , in the said colony, , who with executors, administrators, and permitted assigns, (hereinafter referred to as and included in the term “the lessee”), of the other part, witnesseth that, in consideration of the rent hereinafter reserved, and of the covenants, conditions, and agreements herein contained and implied, and on the part of the lessee to be paid, observed, and performed, the lessor doth hereby demise and lease unto the lessee all that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement , a little more or less, situate in the District of aforesaid, and being Section , Block , Survey District of ; as the same is more particularly delineated and described in the plan drawn hereon, and therein coloured red in outline; together with the rights, easements, and appurtenances to the same belonging. To hold the said premises intended to be hereby demised unto the lessee for the term of thirty years, commencing as from the 30th day of June, 18 , and renewable on the conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885.” Yielding and paying therefor unto the Receiver of Land Revenue for the said District of the annual rent of £ , payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each and every year during the said term, free from all deductions whatsoever. The first payment of such rent having been made, the next payment to become due to be made on the day of next.

And it is hereby declared and agreed that these presents are intended to take effect as a lease under the regulations made by Order in Council issued on the day of 188 , and the provisions of those regulations shall be binding in all respects upon the parties hereto in the same manner as if such provisions had been fully set out herein.

In witness whereof the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of hath hereunto set his hand; and these presents have been also executed by the said lessee, this day of , 18 .

Signed by the said Commissioner in the presence of—
A.B.,
(Occupation, residence.)
(L.S.)

Signed by the above-named as lessee, in the presence of—
C.D.,
(Occupation, residence.)
(L.S.)

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Vesting a Reserve in the Richmond Town Board.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of September, 1886.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was purchased by the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson for a gravel-pit: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the Richmond Town Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said reserve shall become vested in the Richmond Town Board, in trust, for a gravel-pit.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate at Richmond, in the District of Waimea East, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 23 perches, more or less, being part of Section No. 83 on the plan of the said district. Bounded on the North, 450 links, and on the East, 422 links, by other part of said Section No 83; on the South, 450 links, partly by a right-of-way and partly by other parts of said Section No. 83; and on the West, 422 links, by a public road.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council,