2120 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 95

FIRST SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—AROWHENUA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

These sections are situated near the eastern end of the Arowhenua Village Settlement, in the vicinity of the Taumatakahu Stream, at a distance of about a mile to the eastward of the Temuka Railway-station, and are suitable for residential and garden purposes. The lands are weighted with valuations for improvements, consisting of boundary-fencing, as follows: Lot 771, 6s.; Lot 773, 6s. These sums must be paid by the successful applicants before being admitted to possession of the lands.

Selectors are limited to 1 acre in the settlement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto are first-class lands.

2. The lands in the First Schedule are village allotments, open at the option of the applicant either for purchase for cash, for selection for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

3. The day on which the said lands shall be open for application shall be Thursday, the 18th day of January, 1900.

4. The price and rental stated in the First Schedule shall be the price at which the land shall be open for application.

5. Applications shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act, and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch.

6. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration prescribed in Schedules A, B, C to the said Act, according to the tenure under which the land is applied for.

7. Each applicant to purchase for cash shall undertake to pay immediately upon being declared the successful applicant one-fifth of the price of the land; and the balance of the purchase-money, together with Crown-grant fee, must be paid within thirty days.

8. Each applicant for occupation with right of purchase or for lease in perpetuity shall undertake to pay immediately upon being declared the successful applicant the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee.

9. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided.

10. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each lease shall be as provided in Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

11. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

12. No person shall hold more than 1 acre. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

13. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Village-homestead Allotments in Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of November, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have been set apart under the said Act and declared open for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of lease in perpetuity, and which said terms and conditions are set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and also doth direct that the lands shall be leased as village-homestead allotments only.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

Open land of fair quality; situation good; access good; no timber. Distant two miles from Thornbury Railway-station. Burdened with £8, valuation for improvements.

| 5, 6, 11, 12 | III. | 4 0 0 | 4 9·6 | 0 9 7 |

Open land of fair quality; situation good; access good; no timber. Distant about two miles from Thornbury Railway-station. Burdened with £11 7s. 6d., valuation for improvements. Limit of holding in this village, one allotment.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—SEAWARD BUSH TOWNSHIP.

| 7 | II. | 5 0 0 | 4 0 | 0 10 0 |
| 8 | " | 5 0 0 | 4 0 | 0 10 0 |

Situated about four miles from Invercargill and one mile from Seaward Bush Siding. Soil fair; bush light. Limit of holding in this village, ten acres. These sections are burdened with valuation for improvements as follows: Section 7, £8, consisting of clearing £5, fencing £3; Section 8, £12, consisting of clearing £9, fencing £3.