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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

five miles and a half of the block, and bullock-drays can be
taken at present to the landing-place at Aohanga, on the
East Coast, a distance of about seventeen miles. The sec-
tions consist of flat and undulating land, with fair soil on a
papa foundation, and are generally well watered; the timber
varying, and consisting of tawa, rimu, rata, hinau, totara,
manuka, &c., several of the sections being all manuka or
mixed light bush and scrub.

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 Tuesday, the fifth day of March, 1895.

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 Eketahuna, 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 January, 1896.

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
   lease of Section , 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.

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

Fixing Date of Payment of Income-tax.

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

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him under "The Income-tax Act, 1894," His
Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby order and determine that the
respective duties leviable under the said Act by way of
income-tax shall be paid in one sum on Thursday, the
thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent as
aforesaid, His Excellency doth also determine that the place
where the said duties of income-tax shall be payable shall be
the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, at the Government
Buildings, Wellington, and that notice to the foregoing effect
shall be given by the said Commissioner accordingly.

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

Regulations for the Gatton Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of December, 1894.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 herein-
before 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 Gatton
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 Gatton Special Settlement
   Association, being a body of persons, not less than
   eighteen in number, voluntarily associated together
   at Terrace End, in the Provincial District of Wel-
   lington, 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 :