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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

Land taken for Sewer from Kilbirnie to Hue-ti-Taka.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
are required to be taken, under the provisions of
"The Public Works Act, 1894," for a certain public work, to
wit, the construction by the Council of the City of Welling-
ton of a sewer to carry the sewerage of such city to an
outfall into the sea beyond Hue-ti-Taka:

And whereas the Council of the City of Wellington has
laid before the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a
map and duplicate thereof, required by the said Act, and the
statutory declaration mentioned in the same Act:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of
the powers and authorities in me vested by "The Public
Works Act, 1894," and section two hundred and twenty-six
of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886," and of every
other power or authority in anywise enabling me in this
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after
the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand
Gazette, the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are
hereby taken for the purpose of the construction by the
said Council of the said sewer.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

| Approximate Area | Being | Situated | Situated in the |
| of each of | Portion of | in | Survey District of |
| the Parcels of Land | Section No. | Block No. | |
| required to be taken. | | | |
| A. R. P. | | | |
| 0 0 16·6 | 5 | VII. | Port Nicholson. |
| 3 3 4 | 8 | XI. | Port Nicholson. |
| 3 0 1 | 13 | " | Port Nicholson. |
| 0 3 13·9 | 14 | " | Port Nicholson. |
| 1 1 17·6 | 15 | " | Port Nicholson. |
| 2 0 14 | 18 | " | Port Nicholson. |

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same
are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
17555, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public
Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Welling-
ton, and thereon coloured purple, blue, and red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

God save the Queen!

Regulations for the Mangaehu Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of October, 1895.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor 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 Mangaehu
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 Mangaehu Special Settlement
Association, being a body of persons, not less than
forty-nine in number, voluntarily associated to-
gether at Stratford, in the Provincial District of
Taranaki, 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 New Plymouth, 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 Taranaki:

"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 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 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-nine.

3. The allotment 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, de-
   termine.

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
   the 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 Taranaki.

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 permanent
    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