Land set apart for Village Settlements in the Taranaki 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 land respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for lease as village settlements.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Kapara Survey District.--Matapouri Village-homestead Settlement.

Section. Block. Area. Section. Block. Area.

12 VI. 23 2 30 18 VI. 4 1 24
13 " 23 2 27 19 " 4 0 37
14 " 18 0 0 21 " 2 3 35
16 " 4 1 30 22 " 2 3 38
17 " 4 1 15

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 twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE.

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations for the Kaikoura Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth 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 Kaikoura 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 Kaikoura Special Settlement Association, being a body of persons, not less than twelve in number, voluntarily associated together at Kaikoura, in the Provincial District of Marlborough, 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 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, 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 to be located thereon shall not be less than twelve.

3. 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.

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 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.

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 permanent character to the value of £1 per acre.

11. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in accordance 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 arrangement 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 regulations 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 bona 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.