Rumb. 76.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1900.
Regulations for the Te Tuhi 4b Special Settlement Block.
RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of August, 1900.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred upon him by the herein-
before 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 Te Tuhi 4B
Viticulture and Fruit-growing Special Settlement Block,
described in the Schedule to the said regulations, shall be
disposed of, that is to say :—
REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these regulations, unless the con-
   text shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall
   have the meanings hereby assigned to them :—
   “Land” means the land described in the Schedule,
   set apart for the special purpose of viticulture and
   fruit-growing, as a settlement, to be dealt with
   under these regulations:
   “Settler” means the person, not being a married
   woman, leasing the land under these regulations:
   “Receiver of Land Revenue” means Receiver of Land
   Revenue at Wellington, 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 Wellington:
   “Substantial improvements of a permanent character”
   mean and include, in addition to a dwellinghouse
   and other buildings necessary to the production of
   wines, the planting of grape-vines and fruit-trees,
   suitable for wine-making or table or culinary pur-
   poses:
   “Cultivation” means—
   (1.) Fencing the land with timber or other dur-
   able materials, not being a brush fence; or
   (2.) Breaking up and planting grape-vines and
   fruit-trees:
   “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, and contains not more than 320
   acres.
3. The land shall be disposed of by lease in one lot at
   an annual rental of 4 per cent. on the capital value fixed by
   the Minister.
4. One-third of the rent 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 expenditure on roads leading to
   the block. Such expenditure to be first sanctioned by the
   Land Board for the Land District of Wellington.
5. All rent 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 dis-
   charge for the payment of the moneys therein respectively
   acknowledged to have been received.
6. The settler shall not be under seventeen years of age.
7. The settler shall put on the land comprised in his
   lease, within six years from the date thereof, substantial
   improvements of a permanent character to the value of £1
   per acre, and shall within that time have not less than 20
   acres planted with vines and fruit trees, and which shall be
   maintained in a healthy state. Such vines and fruit trees
   shall be planted at the rate of not less than an annual
   increase of 5 acres each year for the first three years, and
   after six years an annual increase of not less than 3 acres
   until the whole of the land within the Te Tuhi 4B Special
   Settlement Block suitable for the purpose of viticulture and
   fruit-growing has been brought under such cultivation.
8. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in ac-
   cordance with Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”
9. If the settler shall fail to comply with these regula-
   tions in any respect, such settler shall, upon sufficient proof
   thereof to the satisfaction of the Land Board of the district,
   forfeit his interest in the land set apart under these regula-
   lations, and the land shall thereafter be dealt with as ordi-
   nary Crown lands; and these conditions shall be sufficient
   authority for such forfeiture.
10. In case any doubt shall arise as to the sufficiency of
    the compliance with these regulations, with reference to the
    occupation or improvement of the land mentioned in the
    Schedule hereto, or otherwise arising thereunder respectively,
    the same shall be settled by the Minister.