1694
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

ing 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 im-
proving the character or fertility of the soil, or
the erection of any building:

"Cultivation" means—
(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other dur-
able 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 regula-
   tions is being 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 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 Minis-
   ter.

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 lead-
   ing 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 1s. 3d. per acre, being
   half survey fee, the balance to be paid on completion of survey,
   before ballot takes place; and also furnish the Commissioner
   from time to time with minutes of proceedings of the asso-
   ciation 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 land shall there-
    after be dealt with as ordinary Crown lands; and these con-
    ditions 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 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 area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 1,200 acres, more or less, situated in
Gorge Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by
forest reserve; towards the south-east by the Land District
of Hawke's Bay; towards the south-west by forest reserve;
and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 5 and 2,
Block II., Gorge Survey District, and the production of the
south-eastern boundary-line of the last-mentioned section.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring certain Provisions of "The Dairy Industry
Act, 1894," to be in Force.—Notice No. 404.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of November, 1894.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR P. A. BUCKLEY, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by "The Dairy Industry Act, 1894" (hereinafter termed
"the said Act"), His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare
that on and after the date of the publication hereof in the
New Zealand Gazette the following provisions of section
twenty-one of the said Act—namely, subsection one, (a),
and subsection one, (c), subsection two, (a), and sub-
section two, (d), and also subsection three of the said
section—shall be in force.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Cool-stores under "The Dairy Industry Act,
1894."—Notice No. 405.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of November, 1894.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR P. A. BUCKLEY, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred upon him by section 3 of "The Dairy
Industry Act, 1894," His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth
hereby order and declare the buildings and places described
in the Schedule hereto to be cool-stores for the purposes of
the said Act, as from the 29th day of November, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

The Auckland Freezing Company (Limited), store, Auckland.
The Wellington Meat Export Company (Limited), store,
Wellington.
The Lyttelton Harbour Board's store, Lyttelton.
Irvine and Stevenson's store, Dunedin.
Taieri and Peninsula Dairy Company's store, Dunedin.
J. and R. Cuddie's store, Mosgiel.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village Homestead Allot-
ments in Southland.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth
day of November, 1894.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR P. A. BUCKLEY, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING 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 thirtieth
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