JAN. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 5

"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, clear-
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 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 thirteen.
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 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 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 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 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 land; 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 parcel of land, containing by admeasurement
2,565 acres, and comprising Sections 3 to 6, 8, Block VII.,
Section 1, Block VIII., Sections 9 to 13, Block XI., and
Sections 2 and 3, Block XII., Mimi Survey District, in the
Land District of Taranaki.

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

Industrial Districts constituted under "The Industrial
*Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894."

GLASGOW, Governor.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf
conferred upon him by "The Industrial Conciliation
and Arbitration Act, 1894," His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby, for the purposes
of the said Act, declare as follows, that is to say:—

1. The colony is hereby divided into six industrial districts,
   constituted with the names and boundaries following, that is
   to say:—
   (1.) The Northern Industrial District, the boundaries
   whereof are coterminous with those of the
   Northern Judicial District constituted under
   "The Supreme Court Act, 1882";
   (2.) The Wellington Industrial District, the boundaries
   whereof are coterminous with those of the Wel-
   lington Judicial District, constituted as afore-
   said;
   (3.) The Nelson Industrial District, the boundaries
   whereof are coterminous with those of the Nelson
   Judicial District, constituted as aforesaid;
   (4.) The Westland Industrial District, the boundaries
   whereof are coterminous with those of the West-
   land Judicial District, constituted as aforesaid;
   (5.) The Canterbury Industrial District, the boundaries
   whereof are coterminous with those of the Can-
   terbury Judicial District, constituted as aforesaid;
   and
   (6.) The Otago and Southland Industrial District, the
   boundaries whereof are coterminous with those of
   the Otago and Southland Judicial District, con-
   stituted as aforesaid.
2. In each of the aforesaid industrial districts one of the
   persons for the time being holding the office of Deputy
   Registrar of the Supreme Court of the judicial district coter-
   minous with such industrial district shall be appointed to be
   the Clerk of Awards in and for such industrial district, and
   the two offices shall be held in conjunction.
3. The Board of Conciliation in and for each industrial
   district shall consist of four members, in addition to the
   Chairman.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this second day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Regulations under "The Industrial Conciliation and Arbi-
*tration Act, 1894."

GLASGOW, Governor.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this
behalf conferred upon him by "The Industrial Con-
ciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894," His Excellency the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby, for
the purposes of the said Act, make the following regulations,
that is to say:—

REGULATIONS.

Industrial Unions and Associations.

1. Application for registration as an industrial union or
   industrial association may be in the form numbered 1 in
   the Schedule hereto.
2. The certificate of registration and incorporation of an
   industrial union or industrial association shall be in the
   form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto.
3. The application for registration as an industrial asso-
   ciation shall be accompanied by a list of the industrial
   unions which the council or other body making the applica-