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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Land withdrawn from the Deferred-payment System in Taranaki.

(L.S.)
ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and fourth section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall think fit, and set the same aside for sale on deferred payments, and in such Proclamation may fix a day on which the land shall be open for application; and that he may also in like manner set apart for sale on deferred payments such blocks or allotments as may be recommended by any Land Board, and may also from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such Proclamation:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto was, with other lands, by Proclamation dated the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, proclaimed as set apart for sale on deferred payments:

And whereas it is expedient to withdraw the said land from the deferred-payment system:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the above-named Act, do hereby revoke the Proclamation above referred to, so far as it relates to the section therein mentioned and included in the Schedule hereto, and do proclaim and declare that the said section is hereby withdrawn from the operation of the deferred-payment system.

SCHEDULE.

HUIROA Survey District: Section 48, Block III., 189 acres.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Christchurch, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Amended Regulations for the Formation of Farm Homestead Associations.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE MR. BUCKLEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-third section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations for fixing the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any special settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the regulations which were made by Order in Council issued on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and to make new regulations for the formation of farm homestead special-settlement associations:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby revoke the Order in Council of the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and do hereby fix the following terms and conditions as those upon which farm homestead special settlement association blocks shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

REGULATIONS.

1. Any association of persons of not less than twelve, who may be desirous of settling on Crown lands adjacent to each other, may arrange with the Government for a block of land on the following general conditions:—

2. In the construction of these regulations, unless the context shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

“Association” shall mean the Farm Homestead Association:

“Land” shall mean any block of land set apart for a special settlement to be dealt with under these regulations:

“Settler” shall mean any member of the association or other person, not being a married woman, leasing land under these regulations:

“Receiver of Land Revenue” shall mean Receiver of Land Revenue at , or other officer for the time being acting as such:

“Minister” shall mean the Minister of Lands for the time being, or any member of the Executive acting for him:

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the land district:

“Secretary” shall mean the secretary of the association for the time being, and shall include any person acting in that capacity, and, if there shall be no secretary, then the chairman of the association:

“Substantial improvements of a permanent character” shall mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush or scrub, cultivation, planting with trees or live hedges, the laying-out and cultivating of gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erection of any building:

“Cultivation” shall mean—

(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence; or

(2.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or other cultivated grass; or

(3.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other crops therein; and, in case of bush-lands, the felling and clearing of timber and sowing of grass:

“Lease” shall mean a lease with perpetual right of renewal in terms of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885,” but with no right to the settler to acquire the freehold of the land, as provided by section 150 of the said Act.

3. Any block of land to be selected under these regulations shall contain not less than 1,000 acres nor more than 11,000 acres, inclusive of roads, townships, and all other reserves; and it will be surveyed into areas not exceeding 320 acres or thereabouts: Provided that the number of persons located in each block shall not be less than one person for every 200 acres of its total area.

4. All surveys shall be conducted by the Survey Department.

5. Such portions of the land as may be required for any of the purposes enumerated in section 227, Part IX., of “The Land Act, 1885,” or as a site for a township, as shall be approved by the Minister, shall not be open for allotment under these regulations.

6. The allotments of sections to members of the association shall be made at such time and in such manner as the association may, with the consent of the Commissioner, determine.

7. The land shall be disposed of at such rental as may be arranged between the Minister and the association, being 5 per cent. on a capital value of not less than £1 an acre.

(a.) It shall not be necessary, however, for any settler to pay any rent for the first two years from the date of allotment of his section. After the expiration of the said period of two years the rent shall be at the rate of 5 per cent. on the capital value of the land, as fixed by Regulation No. 7, payable half-yearly, on the 1st day of January and July in each year. The unpaid two years’ rent may be added to the capital value of the land, and thereafter the rent shall be payable on such increased capital value; or the settler may pay off the arrears of rent at any time.

8. One-third of the rents paid from time to time shall, for the first fifteen years, be paid to the local body of the district, or the association, for the expenditure on roads in or leading to the block.

9. All the moneys required to be paid for the land under these terms and conditions shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, and receipts given by him shall be sufficient discharges for the payment of the moneys therein respectively acknowledged to have been received.

10. Each settler must within six months from the date of allotment of his section reside upon the land: Provided that in bush-land residence need not commence within two years from the date of allotment, so long as the improvements required under Regulation 14 are made within the two years.

11. The settlers shall be members of the association, and shall not be under seventeen years of age.