1478
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

“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 sixteen.

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 land shall thereafter be dealt with as ordinary Crown lands; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority for such forfeiture.

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 otherwise 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 amendments 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 2,975 acres, and comprising Sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Block I., and Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, Block II., Mangahao Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Time for Elections, Borough of Roxburgh.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of September, 1894.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Returning Officer for the Borough of Roxburgh failed to take the necessary steps for holding the annual election of Councillors for the said borough on the second Thursday of the present month of September, as provided by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” and it is expedient to extend the time for holding such election:

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 that the time for holding the said election of Councillors for the Borough of Roxburgh shall be and the same is hereby extended to Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Lands in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Tauranga, and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWNSHIP OF OHIWA (BAY OF PLENTY).

Block II., Lots 2 to 12 (both inclusive), each containing ¼ acre; upset price, £5 each lot.

Block III., Lots 8, 9, 10 (Museum endowments), each ¼ acre; upset price, £5 each lot.

Block IV., Lots 3 to 10 (both inclusive), containing ¼ acre each; upset price, £5 per lot.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Southland for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.