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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 area, situated in Blocks V., VI., VII., IX., and
X., Manganui Survey District, containing 10,000 acres, ex-
clusive of roads and reserves, bounded on the north-east by
Crown lands ; on the south-east by Marton No. 4 F.H.A.
Block, and Marton No. 3 F.H.A. Block ; on the south-west
by Waimarino Subdivision No. 3, and Crown land ; and on
the north-west by Crown lands.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Gladstone Special Settlement Asso-
ciation.

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 Gladstone
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 con-
   text shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall
   have the meanings hereby assigned to them :—
   “Association” means the Gladstone Special Settlement
   Association, being a body of persons, not less than
   twenty-three in number, voluntarily associated to-
   gether at Gladstone, 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 Wellington, 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, 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 twenty-three.
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 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 the survey, before ballot takes place, and also furnish the
Commissioner from time to time with minutes of proceed-
ings 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 area situated in Blocks VII., VIII., and XII.,
Manganui Survey District, containing 7,600 acres, exclusive
of roads and reserves, bounded on the north and north-west
by Crown lands, on the east by Crown lands, on the south by
the Mangaturuturu Stream, and on the south-west by the
Marton No. 4 F.H.A. Block.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.