April 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 817

Regulations for the Moeawatea Special Settlement Association.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirtieth

day of March, 1897.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 Administrator of the
Government 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 Moeawatea Special Settlement Association Block, de-
scribed in the Schedule to the said regulations, shall be dis-
posed 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 Moeawatea Special Settle-
ment Association, being a body of persons, not
less than fifty-three in number, voluntarily asso-
ciated together at Palmerston North, in the Provin-
cial District of Wellington, for the purpose of taking
up the land as a special settlement of farm home-
steads :

"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 swamp, 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 dur-
able 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 fifty-three.

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,
   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 lead-
   ing 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
    exceed 320 acres, and no person who has made an arrange-
    ment 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 shall fail to comply with these regu-
    lations 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 other-
    wise 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 parcel of land, containing approximately by ad-
measurement 9,600 acres, and comprising Sections Nos. 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, Block VIII., Omona
Survey District; Section No. 26, Block XI., Omona Survey
District; Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, and 28, Block XII.,
Omona Survey District; Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8,
Block V., Taurakawa Survey District; Sections Nos. 1, 2,
3, 4, and 6, Block IX., Taurakawa Survey District, in the
Land District of Taranaki.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Whaingaroa Domain Board under
"The Public Domains Act, 1881."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirtieth
day of March, 1897.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in him by "The Public Domains Act, 1881," His
Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain
Order in Council, dated the first day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-six, making delegation of certain
powers in manner as therein appears; and doth, with
the like advice and consent, by this present Order, dele-
gate, but only with respect to the pieces or parcels of
land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers con-