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the south by said Section No. 18; again towards the east by Douglas Road; again towards the south by Section No. 1, Block IX. aforesaid, and Section No. 8, Block XII., Huiroa Survey District aforesaid; and towards the west by Sections Nos. 6 and 13, Block XII. aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN MCKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart for a Special Settlement.

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the one hundred and sixty-second section of "The Land Act, 1892," and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby set apart and declared open for special settlement.

SCHEDULE.

PAPAMOA BLOCK.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,200 acres, more or less, situated in the Tumu Survey District. Bounded towards the north generally by the Tauranga-Te Puke Road, Native land, and Crown land; towards the east generally by Crown land and the Tauranga-Te Puke Road; towards the south by Crown land; towards the south-west and south-east by the Hikutawatawa Block; again towards the south by Crown land; and towards the west generally by Crown land and Native land.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN MCKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations for the Oxford Special Settlement Association.

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.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-third section of "The Land Act, 1892," it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations fixing the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any special settlement shall be disposed of by lease in perpetuity:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations fixing the terms and conditions upon which the lands known as the Oxford Special Settlement Association Block, described in the Schedule to the said regulations, shall be disposed of, that is to say:—

REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these regulations, unless the context shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

"Association" means the Oxford Special Settlement Association, being a body of persons, not less than twenty-two in number, voluntarily associated together at West Oxford, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, for the purpose of taking up the land as a special settlement of farm homesteads:

"Land" means the land described in the Schedule, set apart for a special settlement, to be dealt with under these regulations:

"Settler" means any member of the association or other person, not being a married woman, leasing land under these regulations:

"Receiver of Land Revenue" means Receiver of Land Revenue at New Plymouth, or other officer for the time being acting as such:

"Minister" means the Minister of Lands for the time being, or any member of the Executive acting for him:

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Taranaki:

"Secretary" means the secretary of the association for the time being, and shall include any person acting in that capacity, and, if there shall be no secretary, then the chairman of the association:

"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 twenty-two.

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 Taranaki.

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 an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land.