Num. 98.

1867

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1893.

Regulations for the Swinburn Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1893.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-third section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations fixing the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any special settlement shall be disposed of by lease in perpetuity:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority 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 regulations fixing the terms and conditions upon which the lands known as the Swinburn Special Settlement Association Block, described in the Schedule to the said regulations, shall be disposed of, 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 Swinburn Special Settlement Association, being a body of persons, not less than twelve in number, voluntarily associated together for the purpose of taking up the land as a special settlement of farm-homesteads:

“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 land under these regulations:

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

“Minister” means 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 of Otago:

“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:

“Substantial improvements of a permanent character.” mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting with trees or live hedges, the laying-out and cultivation 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:

“Lease” means a lease in perpetuity in terms of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

2. The block of land to be dealt with under these regulations has been surveyed into sections of not more than 320 acres each, and the number of persons located thereon shall not be less than fifteen.

3. The cost of such survey shall be included in the capital value.

4. Such portions of the land as may be required for any of the purposes enumerated in section 235, Part VIII., of “The Land Act, 1892,” or as a site for a township, as shall be approved by the Minister, shall not be open for selection under these regulations.

5. 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.

6. The land shall be disposed of at an annual rental of 4 per cent. on the capital value fixed by the Minister.

(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 4 per cent. on the capital value of the land, as fixed by Regulation No. 6, payable half-yearly on the 1st day of January and July in each year. The unpaid two years' rent shall 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.

7. 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. Such expenditure to be first sanctioned by the Land Board for the Land District of Otago.

8. All rents and 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 discharge for the payment of the moneys therein respectively acknowledged to have been received.