1482 | THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 78

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. THE land described in the First Schedule to the foregoing Proclamation has been ceded to Her Majesty as aforesaid for a term of ninety-nine years from the 30th day of March, 1893, and portions of it within Te Aroha Goldfields Township, otherwise known as Lipseytown, have for some time past been surveyed and subdivided into sections, allotments, and streets, and the said allotments have been and hereafter will be held and occupied as sites for business and residence.

2. The said lands shall be subject generally to all the provisions of “The Mining Act, 1891,” and the amendments thereof, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the terms and conditions contained or implied in or by the aforesaid memorandum of cession; and all rents, licenses, fees, and other revenue shall be payable to and collected by the Receiver of Gold Revenue at Te Aroha in the first instance.

3. For every site taken up, held, or occupied in Whitaker Street or Bridge Street, in the said township, whether for business or residence, or having any frontage to either of the said streets, the Native owners shall receive and be paid a sum of not less than £3 per annum.

4. For every site taken up, held, or occupied in any other part of the said land for business purposes, or upon which any business is carried on, the Native owners shall receive and be paid a sum of not less than £2 per annum.

5. For every site taken up, held, or occupied on any part of the said land for residence only (except in Whitaker and Bridge Streets in the said township) the Native owners shall receive and be paid a sum of not less than £1 per annum.

6. In addition to the above moneys the Native owners are to receive and be paid all revenue, produce, and profits of every description arising in any manner whatever under “The Mining Act, 1891,” and regulations thereunder, from the said land and every part thereof.

7. All such rents, revenue, and other moneys shall be paid by the Receiver of Gold Revenue aforesaid to the Native owners quarterly on the first days of March, June, September, and December in each year during the said term.

8. No miner’s right, held by any person taking up, holding, or occupying any site upon the said land, is to be accepted or considered as part payment for such site or the occupation thereof, section 240 of “The Mining Act, 1891,” to the contrary notwithstanding.

9. No business site shall exceed in area 20 perches, and no residence site shall exceed in area 1 rood.

10. No person shall be suffered or allowed to carry on any business whatever upon a residence site without first taking out a business-site license, and paying the rent hereinbefore mentioned in respect thereof.

11. In exchanging residence sites for business sites, or vice versa, or in altering in any way the titles to any sites upon the said land, no rebate, deduction, or allowance of any kind shall be made to any person whatever.

12. The Warden for the time being of the goldfield or mining district within which the said land shall for the time being be included, shall have power to grant to any person, company, or corporation whatever leases or licenses to occupy any such sites as aforesaid for such period as he may think fit, but not extending beyond the term hereinbefore granted, and so that such leases or licenses are granted subject to the several terms and conditions herein contained or implied.

13. No person shall be suffered or allowed at any time to take down or remove any buildings or fences of any kind heretofore or hereafter erected upon any part of the said land, whether affixed to the freehold or not, without the written permission of the Native owners.

14. Outside the actual area of the township, the Native owners shall be entitled from time to time to have any unoccupied portions of the said land withdrawn from the goldfield or mining district for the time being for the use of the lessors or their families, or for cultivation.

15. At the end of each twenty years of the said term of ninety-nine years, a revaluation of the annual rental of all the business sites occupied upon the said land shall be made by two disinterested persons, one to be chosen by the Native owners, and one by the Minister of Mines on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, or by the umpire of such two persons in case of their disagreement; and the valuations made by such persons, or their umpire, shall be taken to be the annual rentals for the twenty years then next ensuing, in lieu of the previously existing rentals; but should either party refuse or neglect to appoint such person as aforesaid within ten days after notice in writing for that purpose, the valuation of the person first appointed shall be binding and conclusive on all parties interested: Provided always that in no case, and at no time during the said term of ninety-nine years, shall the rentals for the said business sites or any of them be less than those hereinbefore mentioned and reserved: And also that until such revaluations shall from time to time be duly made, the then existing rentals shall continue to be charged. [Deed No. 1812, Auckland.]

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart for Village Settlements in the Marlborough Land District.

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the one hundred and sixty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown lands respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for lease as village settlements.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Revoking the Setting-apart of Land for Leasing as Small Grazing-runs.

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the Proclamation of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, by His Excellency the Governor, setting apart the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto for leasing as small grazing-runs, shall be and the same is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Kaingaroa Plains.