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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Regulations for the Rising Sun 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 Rising
Sun 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 Rising Sun Special Settle-
   ment Association, being a body of persons, not
   less than thirty in number, voluntarily associated
   together at Woodville, 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 includes any person acting
   in that capacity, and, if there be no secretary,
   means 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 land 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 thirty sections of not more
   than 320 acres each and thirteen sections of not more than
   640 acres each, and the number of persons to be located
   thereon shall not be less than thirty.

2A. Any two or more members may jointly hold any one of
the sections as tenants in common, and in such case all the
provisions of section 161 of "The Land Act, 1892," shall apply
to the lessees so far as are applicable to the tenure created.

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 lead-
   ing 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 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 640 acres, or 320 acres, as the case may be, and no
    person who has made an arrangement 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 Commissioner shall
    cause such interest to be again open for selection by a bona
    fide settler; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority
    for such forfeiture and reallotment. Any settler so selecting
    shall be deemed to stand in the position of the original
    settler.

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 in respect
    of the land herein referred to.

Schedule.

All that parcel of land containing by admeasurement
12,768 acres, and comprising Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, Block I., 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, Block II., 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,
Block IV., 44, 45, 46, 47, Block XII., 1, 2, and 3, Block XIII.,
Mount Cerberus Survey District, in the Land District of
Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Local Authorities required to find New Names for certain
Places.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers enabling me
under section four of "The Designation of Districts
Act, 1894," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby require the local authori-
ties mentioned in the Schedule hereto to submit to me new
names for the places set opposite the names of such local
authorities respectively.