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Feb. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 143

If the lands are selected on deferred payments, an addition
of one-fourth to the cash price of the section will be made.
7. No person shall be allowed to purchase or select more
than one section.
8. 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.
9. 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-twentieth of the price
if the allotment is over twenty acres, and one-tenth if it is
under that area; 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.

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 village settlements:

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 thereof, doth, by this present order, fix the following as the terms and conditions upon which the village settle-
ments 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 eighth day of May, one
    thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

  3. No person shall be allowed to apply for or to select more than one allotment.

  4. 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.

  5. The purchaser for cash of any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto will be required to make the
    following declaration :-

I, , of , in the Land District, and Colony of New Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely
declare-

  1. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1885," am purchasing Section
    Block District.
  2. That I am purchasing such land solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or
    benefit of any other person whomsoever.
  3. That I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other
    person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole one acre.
    And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the
    General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."
    (Signed.)
    Declared at , this day of , 188, before me- , J.P.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Invercargill Hundred.
Section. Block. Area. Cash Price per
Acre.
A. R. P. ยฃ s. d.
93 V. 9 3 31
94 " 10 0 0
95 " 10 0 0
96 " 10 0 0
97 " 10 0 0
98 " 10 0 0
99 " 10 0 0
100 " 10 0 0
101 " 10 0 0
102 " 5 2 39
1 10 0*

  • One-fourth additional if selected on deferred payments.
    FORSTER GORING,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of February, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

  1. 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."
  2. 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."
  3. The prices stated in the Schedule hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for sale for cash, on
    deferred payment, or perpetual lease, as respectively stated.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 value of the land if the area is under twenty acres, and one-twenty-eighth
    of the value of the land if it is over twenty acres. 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. A license fee of twenty-one shillings will also have to be
    deposited.
  6. 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 commence-
    ment of the term, together with the sum of thirty shillings for the lease and registration thereof.


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๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Terms and Conditions for Village Settlement Land Sales (General and Southland Schedule) (continued from previous page)

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Lands, Settlement & Survey
5 February 1889
Village settlement, Small-farm allotments, Deferred payments, Cash sale, Perpetual lease, Southland Land District, Land Act 1885
  • His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Order in Council fixing terms for Village Settlement Small-farm Allotments in Canterbury

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Lands, Settlement & Survey
5 February 1889
Order in Council, Village settlement, Small-farm allotments, Canterbury Land District, Deferred payments, Perpetual lease, Land Act 1885
  • WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor