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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 No. , 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
   believing 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

*Altering Boundaries of Districts under "The Supreme
Court Act, 1882."

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.*

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third
day of January, 1895.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty of "The Supreme Court
Act, 1882 " (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it
is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to
time, for the purposes of the said Act, divide the colony into
districts, and alter the limits of such districts from time to
time as occasion may require :

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the
twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-eight, and made under the provisions of the said Act,
the limits of the Westland and Nelson Districts were altered
and redefined :

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the limits of
the said Westland and Nelson Districts :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice
of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby
alter the limits of the Westland and Nelson Districts so de-
fined as aforesaid, and doth hereby declare that from and
after the first day of April next the limits of the said districts
shall, for the purposes of the said Act, be those respectively
described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND.

All that area bounded towards the north generally by Col-
lingwood County; towards the south-east generally by the

Counties of Waimea and Inangahua to the Buller River;
thence towards the north-east by a right line to Mount
Humboldt ; again towards the south-east by Amuri County
to the Hurunui Saddle, and by the summit of the Southern
Alps to Mount Aspiring ; towards the south-west by a right
line thence to the mouth of Awarua River ; and towards the
north-west generally by the ocean.

NELSON.

All that area bounded towards the north and east generally
by the sea ; towards the south generally by the Clarence River
to Lake Tennyson, and thence by a right line to Mount Hum-
boldt ; and towards the west generally by a right line to the
point at which the south-eastern boundary of Buller County
intersects the right bank of the Buller River, thence by the
said Buller County and by the sea.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Canterbury withdrawn from Sale as Village-
homestead Allotments.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the sixth section of "The Land
Act, 1892," and of every other power and authority enabling
me in that behalf, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from
and after the day of the date hereof the sections of land
enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be and are hereby
withdrawn from sale as village-homestead allotments.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—OPAWA SURVEY DISTRICT.
Cannington Village Settlement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Extension of Period for Election of Boards of Conciliation.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Industrial Conciliation and Arbi-
tration Act, 1894" (hereinafter termed "the said
Act"), it is, among other things, enacted that Boards of Con-
ciliation shall be elected for every industrial district within
thirty days after the constitution of such districts, but that
the Governor may from time to time extend the period
within which any election shall be held for such time as he
shall think fit :

And whereas it is expedient to extend the period within
which the election of Boards of Conciliation may be held for
the districts constituted by warrant under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor, dated the second day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five :

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby extend the period within which the election of Boards
of Conciliation for the aforesaid districts may be held until
the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-second day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five.

W. P. REEVES.