Num. 74.

1455

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1887:

Terms and Conditions of Sale of the Village Settlement in Block V., Takapau Survey District, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, 1887.

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, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedule 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 Schedule hereto shall be disposed of as village allotments for cash and small-farm allotments upon deferred payments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Wednesday, the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, at the Land Office, Napier.

3. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

4. 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.”

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

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

7. If there should be more than one application for any village allotment in the First Schedule the right to purchase 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 the Second Schedule the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Second Schedule 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 of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

9. The purchaser of any lands described in the First Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Second Schedule, upon the like payment, 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

VILLAGE ALLOTMENTS FOR CASH.

Village Settlement in Block V., Takapau Survey District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

Village Settlement in Block V., Takapau Survey District.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.