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8. If the rent in respect of any allotment is not paid at the time prescribed in section 4 hereof, the application shall be deemed cancelled, and such allotment shall be disposed of by fresh application or fresh ballot, as the case may be.

9. Each application shall specify the dates and numbers of the miners’ rights of the members thereof, and such miners’ rights shall be produced to the Land Board before the application is disposed of.

10. No person other than a bonâ fide miner shall apply for any allotment.

11. If any miner applies, either directly or indirectly, on behalf of any person other than himself, the application shall be void.

12. In case any dispute may arise on the disposal of any allotment the same shall be referred to the Warden, whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

13. Each party obtaining a lease of any allotment shall be entitled to mine thereon for gold, and, as between themselves and other parties, shall be subject to “The Mining Act, 1891,” and the regulations made thereunder.

14. The Warden may arrange with the trustees hereinafter referred to, or, failing them, with any other person, for the construction of the said tunnel, and may grant permission to the trustees or to any other persons to use the said tunnel after construction, on such conditions as may be prescribed hereunder: Provided, however, that the value of any gold taken therefrom, less the reasonable cost of excavating the tunnel and of obtaining such gold, shall be equally divided among the lessees of the said land; and the Warden may at any time cancel the permission hereby authorised to be given.

15. If any dispute arises between any of the lessees of the said land in respect to any right or claim in connection with the said land, such dispute shall be dealt with as provided by “The Mining Act, 1891,” and regulations made thereunder.

16. The Warden shall have power to direct any person to inspect the ground in any way so as to insure the safety of the main tunnel and the workings adjacent thereto, and any Mining Inspector shall have the right at any time to enter in and upon such land, and workings thereon, for the purpose of inspection and report and direction.

17. If any two or more of the lessees shall make application to the Warden he shall declare the tunnel hereinbefore referred to to be a main tail-race or tramway, as the case may require; and the lessees shall elect from among themselves three persons as trustees to hold the said tail-race or tramway on behalf of all concerned; and the said trustees may enter into contracts or employ labour for the construction or maintenance of the said tail-race or tramway, and may collect, sue for, and recover any moneys due in respect of such contributions, rates, dues; and the said trustees may also arrange for the construction or maintenance of the said tramway or tail-race by the joint labour or contributions of all parties concerned. No lessee or any other person shall be permitted to use the said tramway or tail-race unless and until all rates, dues, or other contributions in money or labour have been paid. The Warden shall prepare conditions prescribing the manner in which the said tunnel or tramway shall be used and maintained by the said trustees, and also for the registration thereof as nearly as may be in accordance with “The Mining Act, 1891,” and the regulations made thereunder.

18. The tunnel shall not be excavated to a greater width than 6ft., and shall be protected on either side for a further width of 4ft. Any lessee desirous of working the ground on either side of the main tunnel shall do so only on the authority of the Warden, and on conditions to be prescribed by him.

19. Subject to the foregoing conditions the Land Board shall from time to time fix a date when applications for the allotments shall be made; and all the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” relative to applications and ballot shall, as far as possible, apply thereto; and such date for receiving applications shall be publicly notified for at least one week prior to the date fixed.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for a System of Ballot under “The Land Act, 1892.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Land Act, 1892,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby revoke the regulations for a system of ballot under the said Act, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the tenth November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and doth hereby make the following regulations for a system of ballot with respect to lands purchased, leased, or otherwise disposed of under the provisions of the said Act, that is to say:—

1. On the day appointed for receiving applications for land each application as it is received shall be numbered in consecutive order, and in addition with a rotation number having reference only to the applications made for the particular section applied for.

2. A list shall be prepared for each section in the following form, on which will be entered the rotation number for the land applied for, and the consecutive number of the application:—

SURVEY DISTRICT.

3. The Commissioner shall provide sufficient balls, all of one size and colour, equal to the total number of applications for the section applied for, and on each of such balls he shall cause to be legibly printed or written one of the rotation numbers aforesaid, but so that no two balls shall bear the same rotation number. The figures on the balls shall have a line drawn horizontally under them to show which is the right side up.

4. At the time fixed for the ballot the Commissioner of Crown lands, or officer appointed by him, shall read over each name on the list aforesaid with its rotation number, and, as each name and number is read over, the ball bearing the corresponding rotation number shall be deposited in the ballot-box.

5. The ballot-box shall then be securely closed and thoroughly shaken up and turned, and the drawing shall then take place in the presence of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, or the officer appointed by him to superintend such drawing, and the person whose rotation number appears on the ball first drawn from the ballot-box shall be declared by the Commissioner or other officer to be the successful applicant.

6. Immediately upon the successful applicant being declared he shall pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue the deposit, purchase-money, rent, or other moneys required by law in respect of the land applied for; and should such applicant or his representative not make the said payments as required by law then a fresh ballot in the manner before provided shall be taken between the other applicants without delay. Or, should there be only one remaining applicant he shall be declared successful, subject to the said payments being made as aforesaid.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Amending the Area of a Reserve in the Otago Land District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and thirty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that where there has been any error of description made in any notification of any intended reserve, or where there appears a great discrepancy in the area of any intended reserve after the same shall have been surveyed, the Governor may cancel any notification that may have been made in respect of such reserve, and issue fresh notification in respect thereof, with amended particulars and description: And whereas an error was made in the area of Section 270, Block I., Blackstone Survey District, Otago Land District, in the warrant of the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 21, of the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, reserving the land for a public-school site; and it is expedient to cancel the said notification in so far as it relates to Section 270, Block I., Blackstone Survey District, aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the warrant of the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in so far as it relates to Section 270, Block I., Blackstone Survey District; and do declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be known as Section 270, Block I., Blackstone Survey District, and that it is reserved for a public-school site.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 12 acres 2 roods, more or less, being