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 4,974 acres, and comprising Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block I., Sections A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, and 29, Block V., and Sections 24, 25, and 26, Block VIII., Karioi Survey District, in the Land District of Wellington.

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

Varying Order in Council Prescribing Close Season for Seals.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 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 (which shall have force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season or close seasons for seals, and for extending or varying any close season so prescribed, or varying any close season so extended:

And whereas it is provided by the third section of “The Fisheries Conservation Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887,” that a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds may be imposed in respect of the breach of any regulations respecting seals, and a further penalty of not exceeding twenty pounds for every seal illegally taken:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirtieth day of the same month, the months of November and December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, were prescribed a close season for seals throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the said colony, and on all the shores of such waters, or on any part thereof:

And whereas it is desirable to vary the said close season for seals in respect of that part of the said colony lying between the Hokitika River on the south and West Wanganui Inlet on the north:

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 its amendments, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby vary the said close season for seals in respect only of the waters and places hereinafter specified, and doth order and declare that the regulations hereby made shall on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette have force and effect in the waters and places specified in such regulations.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. The months of October, November, and December, 1894, are hereby prescribed a close season for seals within the waters and places following: namely, in all salt, fresh, or brackish waters in the Colony of New Zealand between the Hokitika River on the south and West Wanganui Inlet on the north, and on all shores of such waters, and any part thereof, or that may be contiguous or adjacent to such waters, and on all islets and rocks lying off or contiguous to the shores of such waters.

2. No person shall buy, sell, or expose for sale or have in possession any seal, or the skins, oil, or blubber of any seal, taken during the close season hereby prescribed for seals.

3. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £5 and not exceeding £500, and a further penalty of not exceeding £20 for every seal illegally taken.

4. Every penalty imposed by these regulations shall be recovered in a summary manner before any two or more Justices of the Peace.

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

Land in the Borough of Thames not required for Public Use authorised to be sold.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Public Works Act, 1882” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under that Act, or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for public works, is not required for public use, the Governor may by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted cause the same to be sold under the conditions in the said recited section set forth: And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired for a public work within the meaning of the said Act, and is not now required for the same: And the Council of the Borough of Thames has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, in terms of the said Act, praying the Governor by an Order in Council to cause the said land to be sold:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do hereby order that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be valued and sold in the manner and subject to the conditions in the fourteenth section of the said Act provided.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned in the list hereunder:—

Approximate Area of Land Being Allotment Being Part of Situate in the required No. the Township of to be sold.

6·64 perches 211 Subdivision Grahamstown of Block Kauaeranga No. 13

In the Provincial District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.