932 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 42

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 Hunterville No. 2 Special
   Settlement Association, being a body of persons,
   not less than forty-six in number, voluntarily
   associated together at Hunterville, in the Provin-
   cial 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 forty-six.

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 sanc-
   tioned by the Land Board for the Land District of Wel-
   lington.

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
9,005 acres, and comprising Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, Block I.; Sections 1, 2, 3, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25,
26, Block II., and Sections 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
Block III., Tiriakaukawa Survey District, in the Land Dis-
trict of Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Whananaki Recreation-ground brought under "The Public
Domains Act, 1881."

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of June, 1895.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

By virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-fourth section of "The Public Reserves
Act, 1881," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order
and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in
the Land District of Auckland, and known as the Whananaki
Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation
of and declared to be subject to the provisions of "The
Public Domains Act, 1881"; and such domain shall here-
after be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land Dis-
trict containing by admeasurement 28 acres 2 roods 32
perches, more or less, and being Section 26 of Block IX.,
Opuawhanga Survey District. Bounded towards the north-
east by Section 25 of Block IX. aforesaid, 1117 links;
towards the south-east by a road reservation of varying
width, 1687 and 1199 links; towards the south-west by
Spithill's Block, 1126 links; and towards the north-west by
a road reservation of varying width, 179 and 2441 links, to
the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages
a little more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Whananaki Domain Board under
"The Public Domains Act, 1881."

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of June, 1895.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twelfth section of "The Public
Domains Act, 1881," it is, inter alia, enacted that
the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time