Terms and Conditions of Village-homestead Allotments in the Momahaki Village Settlement.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of February, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Land Act, 1892," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, fixing terms and conditions for the disposal of village lands in the Momahaki Village Settlement; and also doth by this present Order in Council fix the terms and conditions as set forth in the Second Schedule hereto as those upon which the lands described in the First Schedule shall be leased as village-homestead allotments.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

MOMAHAKI VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT. -- PATEA COUNTY.--WAIROA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Section. Block. Area. Lease in Perpetuity.

Rent per Half-yearly
Acre. Rent.

1A VIII. 86 2 0 10 1 8 21 19 0
2A " 100 0 0 11 1 8 27 17 6
3A " 51 2 0 8 7 8 11 2 9
4A " 55 2 30 8 7 8 12 0 10
5A " 75 2 30 8 7 8 16 7 4
6A " 100 0 0 8 7 8 21 12 6
7A " 100 0 0 7 7 8 19 12 6
8A " 49 0 30 8 1 8 10 0 5
9A " 59 0 16 8 1 8 12 0 10
10A " 82 2 0 10 1 8 20 18 8
11A " 64 0 15 11 7 8 18 13 4

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. THE lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act").

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection shall be Tuesday, the 27th day of February, 1894.

3. The rental set forth in the First Schedule hereto shall be the price at which the land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Wellington or Waverley; and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration hereby prescribed.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent, together with the lease and registration fees, immediately the application has been approved, or declared successful at the ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is payable as before provided. The next payment of rent will become due on 1st January, 1895.

8. No lessee shall hold more than one section, and it shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.

9. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence shall be continuous.

10. The lessee shall put on the land comprised in his lease substantial improvements as under:

(a.) Within one year from the date of his lease to a value equal to 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease to a value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;

(c.) And thereafter, but within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;

and in addition thereto shall, within six years from the date of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent character to the value of £1 for every acre of such land.

Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments or protective works of any kind, in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erection of any non-movable building.

11. The lessee must fence the land leased with a ring-fence within the second year of the term; and such fence must be sufficient to comply in all respects with "The Fencing Act, 1881," or any other law to regulate the fencing of land which shall for the time being be in force.

12. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as fences, and also stub all broom and sweetbriar.

13. The lessee must not take more than three crops, one of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succession; and either with or immediately after a third crop of