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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon
which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed
of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas
by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the twenty-
sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the
first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four, the lands described in the First Schedule
hereto have been set apart under the said Act, and declared
open for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to
fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall
be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix the
terms and conditions on which the lands mentioned in the
First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of lease
in perpetuity, and which said terms and conditions are set
forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and also doth direct
that the lands in the said village settlement shall be
divided into village-homestead allotments only.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
UPPER MAKURI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT, PAHIATUA COUNTY.
First-class Land.

This settlement is situated in the Makuri Valley, about
two miles and a half from the Township of Makuri in a
northerly direction, on the road to Coonoor. All the sections
are practically level, but portions of Sections 1 and 2 are
stony. The soil is good, covered with timber, and well
watered.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. THE lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are
   divided into village-homestead allotments, open for selection
   on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of "The Land
   Act, 1892" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act").

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection
   shall be Wednesday, the 5th day of December, 1894.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the
   land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as
   provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applica-
   tions shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands,
   Wellington, and at Pahiatua, and leases will be issued in
   accordance with the provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occu-
   pation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or
   single), and will be required to make the declaration hereby
   prescribed.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent,
   together with the lease and registration fee, immediately the
   application has been approved or declared successful at the
   ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the
   1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in
   section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is
   payable as before provided. The next payment of rent will
   become due on the 1st July, 1895.

8. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and
   such allotment shall be held for his sole use and benefit,
   and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomso-
   ever. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector;
   but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who
   may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an
   intestacy.

9. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one
   year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence
   shall be continuous.

10. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in
    each lease shall, subject to clause No. 9, be as provided in
    Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and
    all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial
    improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these
    regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other
    provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence,
    shall, subject to clause No. 9, apply accordingly to lessees
    under these regulations.

Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean
and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush,
gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting
gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or
water-tanks, constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making
embankments or protective works of any kind, in any way
improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erec-
tion of any non-movable building.

11. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land
    held by him under these regulations, except under and sub-
    ject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

12. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable,
    shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regula-
    tions, and to the applications and leases to be made and
    issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created,
    and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are
    thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision
    of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other
    provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY APPLICANT.
I, , of , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.
2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of
   "The Land Act, 1892," am applying for the purchase of a
   Village Settlement.
3. That I am acquiring such lease solely for my own use
   and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or
   benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.
4. That I am not the owner, or lessee, or occupier, directly
   or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other
   person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony ex-
   ceeding in the whole one acre.
5. That I have not, within one year from the date hereof,
   surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal or lease
   in perpetuity of the lands for a lease whereof I am now
   applying.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices
of the Peace Act, 1882."
A.B.

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before
me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of
New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead
Allotments in Canterbury.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of October, 1894.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-ninth section
of "The Land Act, 1892," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon
which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed
of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas
by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the twenty-
sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on
the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto
have been set apart under the said Act and declared open
for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix the
terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be dis-
posed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on
which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto
shall be disposed of by way of lease in perpetuity, and
which said terms and conditions are set forth in the Second
Schedule hereto, and also doth direct that the lands in the
said village settlements shall be divided into village-home-
stead allotments only.