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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the first Monday in December in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, being Reserve No. 2066 (in red), 213 acres, more or less, situate in the Ashley District (Kowai Road District). Bounded on the south-west by Section No. 19023; on the south-east by the road forming south-east boundary of that section; on the north-east by Reserve No. 1675 (in red); on the north by the road forming the north boundary of Section No. 20597; and on the north-west by Improvement Pre-emption Runs G and H, on Run formerly No. 8, Class III., now No. 299, Class II.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being Section No. 2777 (in red), situate in the Teviotdale Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by the North Road, 943 links; towards the north-east by Cross Street, 315 links; towards the eastward by Terrace Road, 668 links; and towards the south by Lot 52, subdivision of Reserve No. 89, 918 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch.

R. WALROND,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Mongonui County Agricultural and Pastoral Society incorporated.

ONSLow, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this thirty-first day of October, 1891.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby incorporate the members of the Mongonui County Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and such persons as shall hereafter be admitted members of the said society agreeably to the rules of the said society and the provisions of the said Act, into a body corporate under the said Act, under the style and title of “The Mongonui County Agricultural and Pastoral Association.”

R. WALROND,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale or Selection of Village-settlement Sections in Hyde Township and in Glenomaru and Lower Hawea Districts.

ONSLow, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this thirty-first day of October, 1891.

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, by this present order, fix the following as the terms and conditions upon which the village-settlement lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

1. The lands enumerated in the First 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 sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

3. The purchaser for cash of any of the lands enumerated in the First 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 and one pound grant-fee he will be entitled to a Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

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

5. If any of the lands enumerated in the First 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. No person shall be allowed to apply for or select more than one allotment.

7. The prices stated in the First Schedule hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for sale for cash, or for selection on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

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 in the Second Schedule hereto, 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.

10. Each applicant for any of the allotments on perpetual leasing will be required to make the declaration prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto, and to deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the allotment 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.

11. Each applicant for a section for cash will be required to make a statutory declaration 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.