Nov. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1159

Customs Accounts to be audited by the Customs Department.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of October, 1888.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by “The Public Revenues Act, 1878,” as amended by “The Public Revenues Act, 1885,” that it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time, by Order in Council, to direct that the accounts of the receipt of revenue in the Department of Customs shall be audited by the officers of that department, instead of by the Audit Office: And whereas it is expedient that such direction shall now be given:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby direct that the accounts of receipt of revenue in the Department of Customs shall, on and after the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, be audited by the officers of the said department.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale or Selection of Village-settlement Small-farm Allotments in the Otago Land District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of October, 1888.

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 issued under the provisions of section one hundred and sixty-six of the said Act and the fourteenth section of “The Land Acts Amendment Act, 1888,” set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto 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 Acts, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby fix the following as the terms and conditions upon which the village settlement enumerated in the Schedule hereto 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 open as small-farm allotments for sale or selection either for cash, or on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for sale or selection shall be Wednesday, the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

3. The purchaser for cash of any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto must deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district one-fifth of the purchase-money at the time of application, and shall pay the whole remainder of the purchase-money within thirty days of the granting of his application; and if not paid within thirty days his deposit shall be forfeited, and the lands shall be again open for sale or occupation forthwith; and upon full payment of the purchase-money he will be entitled to a Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

4. If any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are selected upon deferred payments, the selector shall be subject to the provisions relating to Part III. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

5. If any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are selected under the perpetual-leasing system, the selector shall be subject to the provisions of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

6. The prices stated in the Schedule hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for sale for cash. If the lands are selected on deferred payments, an addition of one-fourth to the cash price of the section will be made; and, if the lands are selected for perpetual leasing, the annual rental of the sections will be five per cent. on the cash price of the sections.

7. If there shall be more than one application on the same day for any allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section 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 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 next first day of January or July following the date of the license, as the case may be; and, upon fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by the said Act relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to the Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

9. Each applicant for any of the allotments on perpetual leasing shall be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and forty-three of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the allotments included in the application, and such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the first day of January or July which shall first ensue after the commencement of the term, together with the sum of thirty shillings for the lease and registration thereof.

10. Each applicant for cash sections will be required to make a statutory declaration in terms of section eleven of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” that he is applying for the land solely for his own use and benefit, and not for the use and benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

SCHEDULE.

WAITAHUNA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT, OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land Classification Commissioners appointed.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authorities vested in me by the ninth section of “The Land Acts Amendment Act, 1888,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

GEORGE WATKIN WILLIAMS, Esquire, Chief Surveyor of the Land District of Hawke’s Bay;

RECHAB HARDING, Esquire; and

CHARLES HALL, Esquire,

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon rural lands in Cook County, in the Land District of Hawke’s Bay, and known as runs numbers forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, and fifty-two, as provided by section nine of “The Land Acts Amendment Act, 1888,” aforesaid.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre respectively set under such land in the said Schedule.