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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Lands taken for a Sludge-channel and Tailings-site at Ross.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a sludge-channel and for a tailings-site in the Borough of Ross:

And whereas the Minister for Public Works has recommended the Governor to issue a Proclamation taking the said lands:

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 of every other power and 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 purposes of a sludge-channel and for the deposit of tailings in connection with mining operations.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Westland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17508, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured 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 Wellington, this nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations for “The Peaks” Special Settlement Association.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1896.

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 hereinbefore 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 Peaks” 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 context shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

“Association” means “The Peaks” Special Settlement Association, being a body of persons, not less than fifteen in number, voluntarily associated together at “The Peaks,” in the Provincial District of Canterbury, 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 Christchurch, 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 Canterbury:

“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, clearing 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 improving 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 regulations 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 fifteen.

3. The allotment of sections to members of the association 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 5 per cent. on the capital value fixed by the Minister.

5. All rents and moneys required to be paid for the land under these terms and conditions shall be paid to the Receiver 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.

6. The settlers shall be members of the association, and no settler shall be under seventeen years of age.

7. The secretary shall inform the Commissioner of the names of the settlers; and also furnish the Commissioner from time to time with minutes of proceedings of the association, if so required.

8. 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.

9. 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 two and a half per centum of the capital value of the land;

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another two and a half per centum of the capital value of the land;

(c.) And thereafter, but within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another two and a half per centum of the capital value 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.

10. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in accordance with Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

11. 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 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.

12. Any settler who fails to comply with these regulations 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 thereafter be dealt with as ordinary Crown land; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority for such forfeiture.

13. The association may make such rules and regulations from time to time as it may deem necessary, subject to the approval of the Commissioner.

14. In case any doubt at any time arises as to the sufficiency of the compliance with these regulations, with reference to the