APRIL 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 841

Reserve near Yaldhurst, in the Canterbury District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 25th March, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the under-mentioned reserve will be offered for sale by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 14th May, 1902, at 12 o’clock noon.

In the event of the lease not being sold at the auction it will immediately thereafter be open for application at the upset annual rental and for the term stated below.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Locality and Description of Reserve.

Reserve No. 702 is situated at a distance of about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from the Templeton Railway-station, and one mile and a quarter from Yaldhurst, and comprises open, stony river-bed land, light soil, and sand. The reserve is subdivided into four paddocks by the intersecting road-lines, which are fenced, and it is watered by a county water-race which flows along Baxter’s Road through the centre of the reserve. Most of the boundary and subdivision fences are old and out of repair; they consist principally of stakes or gorse and wires. Gorse has spread from some of the fences, especially those on the north, south-west, and part of south boundaries, and gorse and broom are scattered to some extent over the whole of the reserve.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The purchaser of the lease shall, immediately upon the fall of the hammer, deposit an amount equal to six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee.
2. Possession will be given on the day of sale on approval of application by the Land Board.
3. The leases will be for the term stated in the Schedule.
4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may at any time resume possession of the land comprised in the lease, or any portion thereof, by giving to the lessee twelve months’ notice in writing of his intention so to do.
5. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land, or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause.
6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
7. The land shall be used for grazing purposes only, and shall not be broken up or cropped without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
8. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase or spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
9. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
10. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free of all deductions whatsoever.
11. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within sixty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.
12. The lessee shall, within two years from the date of the lease, satisfactorily clear and eradicate from the reserve all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, except gorse properly growing in the line of fences; and he shall put the whole of the boundary and other fences upon the reserve into proper legal repair and condition.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

By-laws of the Hokianga District Maori Council, under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” approved.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following by-laws made by the Maori Council of the Hokianga Maori District, under the provisions of section sixteen of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Approved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

THE MAORI COUNCIL OF THE HOKIANGA MAORI DISTRICT.

BY-LAWS.

THE Maori Council of the Hokianga Maori District, constituted under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” hereby makes the following by-laws under and by virtue of the said Act, such by-laws to come into operation upon approval thereof by the Governor, and the publication of the same in the Gazette and Kahiti:—

Interpretation.

In these by-laws, except when inconsistent with the context, or when otherwise expressly provided, the following expressions shall have the meanings attached thereto:—

“The said Act” means “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

“The Council” means the Maori Council of the Hokianga Maori District, constituted under the said Act.

“Committee” or “Village Committee” means the Village Committee or Komiti Marae of a Maori kainga, village, or pa, appointed by the Maori Council under the provisions of the said Act.

“District” means the Hokianga Maori District, proclaimed by the Governor under the said Act by Proclamation dated the 26th day of December, 1900.

“Native township” means a township constituted under “The Native Townships Act, 1895.”

“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules or regulations made under the said Act or by these by-laws.

(A.) Health and Personal Convenience.

(Section 16, Subsection 1.)

1. Human corpses shall be buried, if the death occurs between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of September (both days inclusive) in any year, within four days after death; and, if the death occurs between the 16th day of September and the 14th day of March of the following year (both days inclusive), within three days after death, unless the Council shall otherwise direct, or unless it is otherwise provided for by any Act of the General Assembly.
2. It shall be the duty of the nearest relatives of the deceased, or, in their absence, of the owner or occupier of the house or premises wherein deceased died, to comply with the provisions of the last preceding by-law; and all or any of them shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach thereof as the Council may deem fit, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for a first offence and one pound for each subsequent offence.
3. No human corpse shall be buried, except with the permission of the Council, in any place other than a burial-ground recognised by the inhabitants of a Maori kainga, or reserved or set apart by them or some duly constituted authority as a burial-ground.
4. The Council may, by notice in writing in Form A in the Schedule hereto, require the owner or occupier of any house within a kainga (other than cooking-houses, kautas, and outbuildings) which shall be erected after the coming into operation of these by-laws to construct a floor for the same (within a time to be specified in such notice) to be approved by the Council or any person or body it may authorise in that behalf.
5. Any person who, after service upon him of such notice as aforesaid, refuses or neglects, within the time specified in such notice, or such further time as the Council may allow, to comply with the same, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.