Mar. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 309

Description of Land: Sections 2, 5, 6, and 7, open, undulating land, fairly good soil, with patches of shingle, indifferently watered; 8, 9, and 10, open, broken, stony land, fronting the Taieri River; situated about twelve miles from Naseby. Distance from Dunedin, about eighty miles.

Strath-Taieri District, Taieri County.

Description of Land: Open, broken land, partly agricultural, watered, black soil; situated about twenty-two miles from Dunback Railway-station, midway between Middlemarch and Macrae’s Townships. Distance from Dunedin via Middlemarch, about fifty-nine miles.

Tarras District.

8 | IX. | 316 2 17 | 0 12 6

Description of Land: Situated on main road Cromwell to Hawera, about fourteen miles from Cromwell. Distant from Dunedin, 154 miles.

UNSURVEYED.

Martin’s Bay District.

16 | I. | 35 1 30 | 0 10 0

Description of Land: Bush land, agricultural; situated near the head of Lake McKerrow. Distant from Kinloch (head of Lake Wakatipu) by track, about forty miles.

This notification will supersede so much of the notices of the 7th July, 1886, Gazette, page 814; 1st February, 1888, Gazette, pages 197 and 199, as relates to the blocks of land described in the foregoing Schedule.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Rules of the Native Land Court.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” as amended by “The Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1888,” and “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, from time to time to make rules for regulating the sittings, practice, forms, and procedure of the Court, and for the government of all persons acting under the said first-mentioned Act, and for fixing the fees to be paid under the said first-mentioned Act, the time and mode of payment, and for enforcing the payment thereof, and such rules from time to time by other rules to alter or revoke:

Now, therefore, I, Hugh Garden Seth-Smith, the Chief Judge of the said Court, do hereby, in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Acts, revoke all former rules and make the rules following.

RULES.

1. In these rules—
   “ The said Act” shall mean “The Native Land Court Act, 1886.”
   “ The said amending Act (1888)” shall mean “The Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1888.”
   “ The said amending Act (1889)” shall mean “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889.”

Registers.

2. A register shall be kept in each district, and every application to the Court shall be recorded therein by the Registrar, as of the day on which it is received in his office.

3. The register of each district shall be arranged in such manner as the Chief Judge shall direct.

All subsequent proceedings in respect of any application, or of the land affected thereby, shall also be recorded from time to time in the register.

Applications.

4. All applications to the Court must be forwarded to the Registrar of the district in which the land is situate if made in respect of land, or in which the applicant resides if made in respect of personal property.

Applications for rehearing or for inquiry under section 13 of the said amending Act (1889) should be forwarded to the Chief Judge.

Applications to be signed.

5. All applications to the Court or to the Chief Judge must be signed by the applicant, or by his agent duly authorised in that behalf. An agent acting on behalf of any other person must forward to the Chief Judge or to the Registrar an authority in writing signed by such person. Such authority may be either general, or in respect of some particular matter. A general authority will be deemed to continue in force until revoked.

6. Every application and every such authority as aforesaid made or given by a Native, if not written in Maori, must have indorsed thereon the certificate of a licensed interpreter to the effect that the contents of such application or authority were fully explained to the Native before he signed the same.

7. The signature of every Native to any application for rehearing or for removal of restrictions must be attested by a Judge or a Registrar of the Court, or a Justice of the Peace, or a Solicitor of the Supreme Court, or a licensed interpreter.

Investigation of Title.

8. The application for investigation of title under section 17 of the said Act shall be in the form numbered one in the Schedule hereto. Such application, if made in respect of land which has not been surveyed, must be accompanied by an application for an authority to a surveyor to enter upon the land for the purpose of surveying it.

9. If a block of land in respect of which an application is made extends into more than one district, the Registrar to whom the application is forwarded shall communicate with the Chief Judge for the purpose of obtaining his decision as to the district in which the application shall be recorded.

10. An application by the Governor under section 18 of the said Act may be in the form numbered two in the Schedule.

11. An interim order under section 20 of the said Act shall be in the form numbered three in the Schedule hereto.

12. The order of the Court upon an investigation of title to land shall be in the form numbered four in the Schedule hereto.

13. A direction under section 12 of the said amending Act (1888) may be in the form numbered five in the Schedule hereto.

Partition.

14. An application for partition by a Native owner may be in the form numbered six, and by a person other than a Native in the form numbered seven, in the Schedule hereto.

15. No application for partition of land the title whereto is a memorial of ownership or certificate of title under any Act relating to Native land shall be entertained until the memorial or certificate has been issued by the Court. Where land has been divided under “The Native Land Division Act, 1882,” or partitioned under the said Act, no further partition of any parcel of the land so divided or partitioned will be made, unless and until a Crown grant or Land Transfer certificate has issued in respect of such parcel.

16. Before the sitting of the Court to hear an application for the partition of land held under Crown grant, or registered under a Land Transfer Act, it shall be the duty of the Registrar to ascertain whether any, and what, transactions have been registered in the District Land Registry, or in the Deeds Registration Office, in respect of such land, and to attach to the application for partition a list of such transactions, if any.

17. If more than one application for partition be received in respect of the same land, it shall be sufficient if the list referred to in the last-preceding rule be attached to any one of such applications, and a minute referring thereto placed on each of the other applications.

18. A partition order shall be in the form numbered eight or nine in the Schedule hereto, as the case may require.

19. A “lease order” may be in the form numbered ten in the Schedule hereto; but separate orders in respect of each parcel of the partitioned land may be made.

Relative Interests.

20. Applications under section 42 of the said Act may be in one of the forms numbered eleven in the Schedule hereto.

21. An order declaring relative shares or interests in land when not embodied in any other order may be in the form numbered twelve in the Schedule hereto. Such relative shares or interests may be expressed in any order of the Court either as fractional parts of the whole in value or area, or as a determined area, as the Court making the order may decide.