APRIL 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 599

In the Land District of Canterbury; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 15226, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Validating Mining Property Valuation-roll, County of Westland, and extending Time for giving Notices.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of April, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Valuer appointed by the County Council of the County of Westland under “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), failed, through misadventure, to complete the valuation-roll of mining property in the said county in the month of January last, as required by the said Act: And whereas the said valuation-roll has since been completed, and it is expedient to validate the same, and also to extend the time for giving notice of the rateable value determined by such Valuer to each occupier, as required by subsection three of section seven of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in order that the purpose and intent of “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” may have effect, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Rating Act, 1882,” which said Act is incorporated with the first above-mentioned Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the valuation-roll of the County of Westland, made as aforesaid under the said Act, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been made within the time required by the said Act; and doth hereby extend the time within which the said Valuer shall give notice of the rateable value determined by him to each occupier, so that such notices may be given on or before the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two; and that objections to such valuations may be made on or before the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Time for Preparation of Burgess Roll, Borough of City of Auckland.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of April, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that certain things required to be done by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” in connection with the making and revision of the burgess lists or rolls of the Borough of the City of Auckland cannot be done by or within the time required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for the doing of the said things in connection with the burgess lists or rolls of the said Borough of the City of Auckland, and doth declare that the time for the doing of such several things shall be those which are specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. Burgess list to be made out: On or before the 28th April, 1892.
2. Burgess and defaulters’ list open for inspection, and delivery of objections thereto: Until the 13th May, 1892.
3. Inspection of list of objections: From the 14th May, 1892, to the 21st May, 1892.
4. Sitting of Council to determine claims and objections: Between the 23rd and 30th May, 1892.
5. Burgess roll to come into force: On the 15th June, 1892.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Formation of a Farm-homestead Association within Whakatane Swamp Lands.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of April, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been set apart and declared open for special settlement, under the provisions of the one hundred and sixty-second section of “The Land Act, 1885:” And whereas the said lands are swamp lands; and by the one hundred and sixty-third section of the said Act it is, among other things, 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:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government 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 fix the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth as those upon which the said lands shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

REGULATIONS.

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

“Association” means the North Island Land Association:

“Land” means the land described in the Schedule set apart for a special settlement to be dealt with under these regulations:

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

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

“Minister” means the Minister of Lands for the time being:

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Auckland:

“Secretary” means 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 or any person acting in the capacity of chairman:

“Substantial improvements of a permanent character” means and includes 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” means—
(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” means 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.