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 im-
proving the character or fertility of the soil, or
the erection of any building:

“Cultivation” means—

(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other dur-
able 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 regula-
   tions has been surveyed into sections of not more than 320
   acres each, and the number of persons to be located thereon
   shall not be less than thirteen.

3. The allotments of sections to members of the associa-
   tion shall be made at such time and in such manner as the
   association may, with the consent of the Commissioner,
   determine.

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

5. 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 charged with the construction and maintenance of
   roads in the district, 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 Wellington.

6. All rents and moneys required to be paid for the land
   under these terms and conditions shall be paid to the Re-
   ceiver 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.

7. The settlers shall be members of the association, and
   no settler shall be under seventeen years of age.

8. The Secretary shall inform the Commissioner of the
   names of the settlers, pay a deposit of 10s. per member,
   and also furnish the Commissioner from time to time with
   minutes of proceedings of the association if so required.

9. The original or amended list of members, signed by the
   secretary of the association, and sent to the Commissioner,
   shall be prima facie evidence that the persons claiming to
   select land are members of the association.

10. Each settler shall put on the land comprised in his
    lease substantial improvements as follows:—

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

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a
value equal to another ten per centum 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 ten per
centum 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 per-
manent character to the value of £1 per acre.

11. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in ac-
    cordance with Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

12. No person who is the owner in fee or leasehold of any
    land in New Zealand which, together with the land included
    in his application or transfer under these regulations would
    exceed 320 acres, and no person who has made an arrange-
    ment or agreement to permit any one, save his son or
    daughter, to acquire by purchase or otherwise the allotment
    in respect of which his application is made, shall be entitled
    to become a settler under these regulations.

13. Any settler who shall fail to comply with these regula-
    tions in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to
    the satisfaction of the Land Board of the district, forfeit
    his interest in the land selected, and the Commissioner shall
    cause such interest to be again opened for selection by a bond
    fide settler; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority
    for such forfeiture and reallocation. Any settler so selecting
    shall be deemed to stand in the position of the original
    settler.

14. The association may make such rules and regulations
    from time to time as it may deem necessary, subject to the
    approval of the Commissioner.

15. In case any doubt shall arise as to the sufficiency of
    the compliance with these regulations, with reference to the
    selection, occupation, or improvement of any land, or other-
    wise arising thereunder respectively; the same shall be settled
    by the Land Board.

16. Excepting as expressly modified by these regulations,
    the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amend-
    ments shall be deemed to have full force and effect over and
    upon the land herein referred to, and shall, mutatis mutandis,
    be read as if these regulations formed part of the Act.

Schedule.

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1,582
acres 1 rood 15 perches, and comprising Sections 1, 6, 3, 4,
8, 9, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 29, 30, 31, 17, 18, 19, 20,
23, 21, 22, 53, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 36, 43, 45, 47, 49,
40, 41, 42, 44, 56, 46, 54, 48, 50, 52, 51, 57, 58, 59, Block X.,
Kaitawa Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Delaware Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of August, 1894.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 herein-
before 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 Delaware
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 con-
   text shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall
   have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

“Association” means the Delaware Special Settlement
Association, being a body of persons, not less than
twelve in number, voluntarily associated together
at Ashurst, in the Provincial District of Wellington,
for the purpose of taking up land as a special settle-
ment 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 Wellington, 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 Wellington:

“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, clear-
ing 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 im-
proving the character or fertility of the soil, or
the erection of any building:

“Cultivation” means—

(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other dur-
able 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.”