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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

RESERVE 1178.

| 1 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 2 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 3 | 20 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 7 0 0 |
| 4 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 5 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 6 | 16 3 38 | 0 14 0 | 5 18 11 |
| 7 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 8 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 9 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 10 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 11 | 10 0 0 | 0 14 0 | 3 10 0 |
| 12 | 10 0 0 | 0 13 0 | 3 5 0 |
| 13 | 10 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 3 15 0 |
| 14 | 10 0 0 | 0 16 0 | 4 0 0 |

SECOND SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE lands enumerated in the First Schedule to these regulations shall be open for selection as small-farm allotments on lease as hereinafter mentioned.

2. The lands shall be open for selection on and after Tuesday, the 31st day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

3. The rent stated in the First Schedule hereto shall be the rent at which the land shall be open for application.

4. The term of lease shall be thirty years, from the 30th June, 1892, renewable for further periods of twenty-one years on the terms stated in sections 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, and 156 of “The Land Act, 1885.”

The lessee shall have no right to acquire the fee-simple in the allotment leased by him hereunder.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single).

6. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed in the Third Schedule to these regulations, and shall at the time of application deposit a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the allotment applied for. Such payment shall, if the application be granted, be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the first day of July, 1892. He shall also pay the sum of thirty shillings for the preparation of the lease and registration thereof. Should the application not be granted the money shall be returned forthwith.

7. All rents must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue half-yearly, in advance, on the first days of January and July in each year, and the whole amount thereof shall be placed in the Land Fund without deductions of any kind.

8. No person shall be allowed to acquire nor to hold more than one allotment, and no person who is the owner or occupier of land which with the land applied for would exceed in area fifty acres shall be capable of applying for or holding any allotment.

9. Married women are not eligible as selectors.

10. When more applications than one are made on the same day for the same land, the right to occupy the land applied for shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants on the following day.

11. Each selector must, within six months of the date of the lease, personally reside upon his or her allotment: Provided that the Land Board may, subject to the provisions of section 148 of “The Land Act, 1885,” dispense with residence upon the allotment, if good and sufficient reason can be shown why the selector cannot personally reside thereon.

12. Each selector shall within one year from the date of the lease cultivate one-twentieth, and within two years one-tenth, and within four years one-fifth of his allotment, and shall, within six years from such last-mentioned date, put substantial improvements on the land to the value of £1 per acre.

Substantial improvements shall include—

(1.) The erection of a dwelling-house;

(2.) Fencing the land with posts and wires or other durable materials;

(3.) Breaking up the land, and laying down the same in cultivated grass;

(4.) Breaking up the land and growing crops thereon.

13. Settlers shall not subdivide or sublet their holdings, but, with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district, they may transfer them, provided that all the conditions of these regulations have been fulfilled to date of application to transfer.

14. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, or assessments of every nature or kind whatsoever imposed upon the lands included in his lease.

15. Clauses 160 of “The Land Act, 1885,” 22 of “The Land Act, 1887,” and 6 of “The Land Act, 1888,” shall not apply to the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.

16. Any settler who shall fail to comply with these regulations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, forfeit his interest in the land selected.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY APPLICANT.

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

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” am applying for a lease of Section __, Block __, __ District.

3. That I am applying for such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and for the purpose of cultivation, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.

4. That I am not the owner or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony which, with the land applied for, would exceed in the whole fifty acres.

5. That I have not, within seven years from the date hereof, surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal.

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.”

(Signature.)

Declared at __, this __ day of __, 18 __, before me, __, Justice of the Peace.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Canterbury brought under the Village-homestead Regulations.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of April, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT 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:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government 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 and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulation fixing the