Feb. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 303

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land in Canterbury set apart for Leasing as Small Grazing-runs.

(l.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one hundred and seventy-second section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy-two to one hundred and eighty-six of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” relating to small grazing-runs.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations under “The Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of February, 1898.

Present:

RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him by “The Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say:—

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“District Valuer” means any person so appointed for a special district by the Governor in Council for the purpose of making valuations, and generally to act under the control of the Valuer-General and perform such other duties as the Valuer-General from time to time directs:

“Local authority” means any Council, Board, trustees, commissioners, company, body, or persons empowered to make and levy rates:

“Local district” means a county or riding of a county, and includes a road district, town district, borough, or any subdivision of a special district, as the Valuer-General from time to time determines:

“Local Valuer” means any person temporarily employed to make valuations in any local district for the purposes of the general or district valuation-roll:

“Person” includes company and corporate body:

“Principal local authority” means—

(a.) Any Borough Council which rates on the capital or unimproved value;

(b.) Any County Council of a county in which “The Counties Act, 1886,” is in force, and which rates on the capital or unimproved value, and which levies a general rate;

(c.) Any Road or Town Board which rates on the capital or unimproved value, and which is situated within a county wherein “The Counties Act, 1886,” is not in force, or in which the County Council does not levy a general rate:

“Publicly notified,” or “Public notice,” means notice published in the Gazette or some newspaper circulating in the locality to which the notice relates:

“Special district” means any such portion of the colony as is from time to time defined as a special district by the Governor in Council:

“Supervising Valuer” means any person appointed by the Governor in Council for the purpose of supervising valuations, and generally to act under the control of the Valuer-General and perform such other duties as the Valuer-General from time to time directs:

“The said Act” means “The Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896.”

2. A notification in the Gazette that any person therein named has been appointed for the purposes of the said Act shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment without any further proof; and the production by any such person of a printed copy of the Gazette containing such notification, and his statement that he is the person named therein, shall be prima facie evidence that he is authorised to act in the capacity mentioned in such notification.

3. Local Valuers may be employed at such times and on such conditions as are found necessary for the purpose of obtaining information with respect to the valuation and other particulars of the property within any local district.

4. From the information obtained from the Supervising, District, or Local Valuers the Valuer-General shall cause the district valuation-rolls to be prepared or amended, as the case may be.

5. The district valuation-roll shall be in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto or to that effect, and the first such roll shall be prepared as on the 31st day of March, 1898.

6. The Valuer-General shall give to each person whose name appears on any district valuation-roll a notice in writing of the making of the valuation: Provided always that the omission to give such notice shall not invalidate any valuation.

7. All objections to the valuations made are to be sent to the Valuer-General on or previous to a day to be stated in such notice.

8. Such notice shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

9. Each district valuation-roll shall be deposited for public inspection at such place within the special district to which it relates, on such days, and at such hours during the day, as the Valuer-General from time to time publicly notifies.

10. Any person feeling aggrieved by reason of any valuation may, by himself or his agent, object to such valuation.

11. Every such objection shall be made in writing under the hand of the objector or his agent in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

12. The Valuer-General shall consider the objections, and may make such inquiries relating thereto as he thinks fit, and if he determines that any objection should be allowed he shall alter the valuation accordingly, but if not, then such objection, if the objector so desires, shall be heard and determined by the Assessment Court.

13. When objections have been lodged with the Valuer-General he shall, on or before the day appointed for the sitting of the Assessment Court, transmit such objections as may not have been allowed or withdrawn to the Assessment Court to hear and determine the same, and shall also transmit the roll to which such objections relate.

14. The Judge of the Assessment Court shall initial all alterations made by him in the district valuation-roll on the hearing of any such objection, and shall then sign the roll and transmit the same to the Valuer-General.

15. The Valuer-General may, during the currency of the district valuation-roll, obtain such new valuations, and make such alterations in the roll as in his opinion are necessary for the purpose of at all times maintaining the roll in a correct condition.