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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 64

CUSTOMS DECLARATION.

7. Parcels will be liable to the Customs laws, duties, and regulations of New Zealand and Queensland respectively. The sender of each parcel will be required to make a Customs declaration (on a form to be obtained at parcel post-offices), describing the contents and stating the value thereof, and also giving the name of the place to which the parcel is addressed and the sender's signature and residence. False declaration involves forfeiture of parcel, and renders sender liable to prosecution.

PARCEL CONTAINING GOLD.

8. On a parcel containing gold, originating in New Zealand, the export duty must be paid before the parcel will be accepted by the Post Office. Such parcels can only be received at money-order offices. At places where there are no customhouses the duty is to be paid to the Postmaster, and at other places paid either at the customhouse or at the post-office.

POSTAL OFFICERS TO EXERCISE POWERS OF CUSTOMS OFFICERS.

9. For the purposes of these regulations every officer of the Postal Department having the lawful custody of any parcel shall have and may exercise all the powers of a landing-waiter appointed under any of the Acts relating to the Customs.

RATES OF POSTAGE.

10. To Queensland: For a parcel not exceeding 2lb. in weight, 1s. 2d.; for every additional pound or fraction thereof, 7d. extra. Postage must be fully prepaid by means of postage-stamps affixed to the parcels. Insufficiently-prepaid parcels will not be accepted.

PACKING OF PARCELS.

11. Parcels should be securely and substantially packed and closed by the sender. If wax is used, it should be of the special quality which resists the heat of a hot climate.

ADDRESSING.

12. Each parcel should be plainly directed; the direction should give name and full address of the person for whom the parcel is intended. The words "Parcel Post" should be written on the upper left-hand corner, as also the name and address of the sender.

MODE OF POSTING.

13. Parcels must not be posted in a posting-box, but should be presented at the post-office counter.

CERTIFICATE OF POSTING.

14. On payment of a fee of 4d. the sender can at time of posting receive a certificate of posting. The certificate imposes no liability on the department, and is merely intended as evidence of posting.

NON-LIABILITY OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

15. Parcels are received and forwarded at the owner's risk, and the Postmaster-General is not liable for any loss of or damage to any parcel.

FORBIDDEN ARTICLES.

16. No parcel containing dangerous or offensive articles, perishable articles, articles likely to injure other parcels, liquids (unless securely packed in proper cases), or any contraband articles or substances, or articles the admission of which is not authorised by the Customs or other laws and regulations of the colonies to which such parcels may be addressed, will be accepted.

Parcels found to contain forbidden articles, and parcels the contents of which have been falsely declared, will be dealt with in accordance with the Customs and other laws and regulations. A parcel must not contain a letter, neither must it contain another parcel addressed to different persons at different addresses. If such a parcel be discovered the contents will be sent forward charged with postage at the rates applicable to such contents respectively. If a letter be discovered in a parcel the parcel will be charged with a fine of 1s.

GENERAL.

17. Where not otherwise provided by the foregoing regulations, the general regulations of the New Zealand inland parcel post, as far as applicable, shall apply.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale or Selection of the Clifden Village Settlement, Southland Land District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of August, 1892.

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 enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,

1. The day upon which the lands shall be open for sale or selection shall be Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

2. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be open as village allotments for sale or selection, either for cash, or on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

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 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 payment, or on perpetual lease.

8. If there should be more than one application for any allotment in the First Schedule the right to occupy the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only.

9. 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 whatsoever.

10. 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.

11. 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,