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colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of mortgage to the Government Advances to Settlers Office Superintendent, the block or parcel of land known as Maungakaretu No. 4B⁴, situate in the Maungakaretu Survey District, containing four hundred and eighty-five acres, more or less, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, volume sixty-one, folio two hundred and fourteen, of the Land Transfer Register of the Wellington Land Registration District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Modified Tables for Immediate Annuities under “The Government Life Insurance Act, 1886,” and “The Government Insurance and Annuities Act, 1874.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council bearing date the third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand did, in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Government Life Insurance Act, 1886,” and “The Government Insurance and Annuities Act, 1874” (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), approve of the tables set forth in the Schedule to the said Order in Council as the tables to be used under the said Acts for determining the value of immediate annuities: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the tables so made as aforesaid, and to substitute others in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Acts, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the tables relating to immediate annuities contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council of the third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, as aforesaid, and, in lieu thereof, doth hereby approve the tables contained in the Schedule hereto; and doth direct that, for the purposes of the said Acts and the regulations made thereunder, such last-mentioned tables shall be used for determining the value of immediate annuities; and doth further declare that this Order in Council shall come into force as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

TABLE VII.—IMMEDIATE ANNUITIES.—Table showing the sum to be paid for an Immediate Life Annuity of £1, payable by Quarterly Instalments, according to the Age and Sex of the Person upon whose life the Annuity is to depend. Annuity apportionable to day of death.

TABLE VII.—IMMEDIATE ANNUITIES.—Table showing the amount of Annuity which £100 will purchase, payable by Quarterly Instalments, according to the Age and Sex of the Person upon whose life the Annuity is to depend. Annuity apportionable to day of death.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Greenpark Village Settlement, Canterbury.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council, issued on the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, under the authority of the one hundred and sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” fixing the terms and conditions upon which village-settlement lands in the Greenpark Village Settlement should be disposed of, it was provided that no selector should hold more than one allotment:

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold not more than one hundred acres in the said Greenpark Village Settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of “The Land Act, 1892,” and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby amend the Order in Council aforesaid so far as it affects the areas in which the land in the Greenpark Village Settlement shall be held, and doth declare that on and after the date hereof any settler in the Greenpark Village Settlement may apply for and acquire more than one allotment, provided that the total area does not exceed one hundred acres. And it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the area in which the sections may be held, to the Greenpark Village Settlement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in Village Settlement of Arowhenua.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, under the authority of the twenty-first section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,”