Numb. 20. 491

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895.

Regulations for the Marton No. 4 Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of March, 1895.

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 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 Marton No. 4 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 Marton No. 4 Special Settlement Association, being a body of persons, not less than thirty in number, voluntarily associated together at Marton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, 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 Auckland, 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 Wellington :

"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 thirty.

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 Wellington.

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:—