Oct. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1695

“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 Auckland, 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 Auckland:

“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 twelve.

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 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 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 Auckland.

6. 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.

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 1s. 3d. per acre, being half survey-fee, the balance to be paid within six months before ballot takes place; 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 an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land.

11. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in accordance 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 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.

13. 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.

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

15. In case any doubt shall arise as to the sufficiency of the compliance with these regulations, with reference to the selection, occupation, or improvement of any land, or otherwise arising thereunder respectively, the same shall be settled by the Land Board.

16. Excepting as expressly modified by these regulations, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments shall be deemed to have full force and effect over and upon the land herein referred to, and shall, mutatis mutandis, be read as if these regulations formed part of the Act.

Schedule.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2,290 acres, situated in Sections 1, 2, 3, Block IV., Otanewainuku; Sections 17, 18, Block III., Te Tumu; and Sections 19 to 23, 26 to 29, Maketu Survey Districts.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Wainono and Nukuroa Village-homestead Settlements, Canterbury.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of October, 1896.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, under the authority of section one hundred and sixty-seven of “The Land Act, 1885,” fixing the terms and conditions upon which certain village-settlement lands therein enumerated should be disposed of, it was provided that no lessee should be allowed to acquire more than one allotment in the village-settlements on Reserves One thousand one hundred and twenty-six, One thousand one hundred and twenty-eight, and One thousand one hundred and seventy-eight:

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold more than one allotment, provided that the total area acquired does not exceed a total of fifty acres in extent:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of all powers and authorities 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 Wainono and Nukuroa Village Settlements shall be held, and doth declare that on and after the date hereof any settler residing in the village settlements aforesaid may apply for and acquire such additional land therein as, with his present holding, shall not exceed a total of fifty acres in extent in the whole; and it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the area in which the sections may be held, to the village settlements aforesaid on Reserves One thousand one hundred and twenty-six, One thousand one hundred and twenty-eight, and One thousand one hundred and seventy-eight.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Patea Borough Council subject to “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of October, 1896.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Patea Borough Council, being a leasing authority within the meaning of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), has requested that these presents should issue, and it appears expedient to make the Order hereinafter contained: