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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 bonâ
    fide settler; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority
    for such forfeiture and reallotment. 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 2,200
acres, and comprising Sections 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 44,
45, 46, Block IV., Umutoi Survey District, in the Land
District of Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulations under the Fisheries Conservation
Act.

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 Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884"
(hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is, among

other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may
from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations for
the purposes therein mentioned, which regulations shall
have force and effect only in any waters and places specified
therein:

And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations here-
inafter set forth with respect to the indigenous fish known
as whitebait inhabiting the waters of the colony herein
mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred upon him by the said Act, and by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby make the following regulations, and,
with the like advice and consent, doth order that these
regulations shall have force and effect in all waters in the
colony.

REGULATIONS.

1. No scrim or whitebait-net shall be used as a set-net or
   be set or placed in openings made in the banks of rivers or
   streams or in dams constructed therein, and no scrim hand-
   net having an opening of more than five square feet shall be
   used for the purpose of catching whitebait.

2. Any person committing a breach of the above regula-
   tion shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds,
   to be recovered as by "The Fisheries Conservation Act,
   1884," is provided.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating By-law made by Thames Borough Council.

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 the Council of the Borough of Thames, by
a resolution passed on the seventeenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and confirmed
at a subsequent meeting held on the eighteenth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, made a by-law,
numbered twenty, repealing all by-laws and regulations in
force and making other provision in lieu thereof: And
whereas it is doubtful whether public notice of the said
subsequent meeting and of the said resolution, passed on
the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four, was given in the manner prescribed by section
one hundred and twenty-one of "The Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1886"; and it is expedient to validate the said
by-law in manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power vested in him
by the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1886," and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, doth hereby order and declare the said by-law,
numbered twenty, made by the Thames Borough Council,
shall not be called in question or be deemed to be invalid by
reason only that the said recited public notices had not been
given in the manner prescribed by the said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Aratapu Recreation-ground brought under "The Public
Domains Act, 1881."

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.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-fourth section of "The Public Reserves
Act, 1881," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order
and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in
the Land District of Auckland, and known as the Aratapu
Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation
of and declared to be subject to the provisions of "The
Public Domains Act, 1881"; and such domain shall here-
after be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District,
being Section No. 42 of the Parish of Kopuru, containing by