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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

ation of the improvements (if any), immediately the ap-
plication has been approved or declared successful at the
ballot.
7. 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.
8. 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 according 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 accord-
ingly to lessees under these regulations.
9. 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.
10. No lessee shall hold more than the limit stated in the
First Schedule, including that already held, and all allot-
ments shall be held for his or her sole use and benefit,
and not for the use or benefit of any other person whom-
soever. 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.
11. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable,
shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regula-
tions, 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.

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth
section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark,
Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in
this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby
declare that the rural land enumerated in the Schedule
hereto shall be open for selection on and after the thir-
teenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two;
and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be
selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the
provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the
said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals,
minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the
price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned
in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land
shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The
Land Act, 1892,” and “The Mining Act, 1898,” and amend-
ments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL COUNTY.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in
Block VIII., Harataunga Survey District, containing by
admeasurement 187 acres, more or less. Bounded towards
the north-east by Section No. 10 of Block VIII., Hara-
taunga Survey District, and by the Kauae-o-Maui Block;
towards the south-east by the Whareroa Block; towards
the south-west by the Torehine Block; towards the west by
Section No. 9 of Block VIII. aforesaid; and towards the
north-west by the Moehau No. 3 Block to the point of com-
mencement.

Description of land: Mostly broken forest land, with a
little open fern and tea-tree land at western end of block.
Situated about a mile from the coast and about three miles
from Cabbage Bay.

Lease in perpetuity: Rent, 4·8d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this fourth day of June, one thousand nine hun-
dred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rules and Regulations for the Management of the Waikaka Commonage.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Land Act, 1892”
(hereinafter termed “the said Act”), the Governor
is empowered to make, alter, or revoke rules, regulations,
and orders for, among other things, the care, management,
and protection in every manner of all commonages: And
whereas it is expedient to make regulations for the care
and management of the Waikaka Commonage, hereinafter
described: Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of
Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
by the said Act, do hereby make the following rules, regula-
tions, and orders for the care and management of the
Waikaka Commonage, described in the First Schedule to
such regulations, and do hereby declare that such regula-
tions shall come into force on the day of the gazetting
hereof.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purpose of carrying out these regulations the
   following persons are hereby appointed a Committee for
   the care, management, and protection of the said com-
   monage:—

Henry William Parsons, dredgemaster;
Walter Matheson, miner;
John McLellan, miner;
Hugh Rankin, engine-driver;
Thomas Maslin, dredge-master;
George Kirby, baker; and
John Blakie, dredge-owner;

all of Waikaka; who shall be known as the “Waikaka
Commonage Committee” (hereinafter referred to as “the
Committee”). Three of such Committee shall retire by
ballot in December in each year, but they shall be eligible
for reappointment as hereinafter provided.

2. The Committee shall meet for the transaction of busi-
   ness on the second Wednesday in each month, at 7 o’clock
   p.m., at Waikaka, or at such other time or place as may
   from time to time be fixed by the Committee. The first
   meeting shall be held on Wednesday, the 9th day of
   July, 1902.

3. On the second Wednesday in January in every succeeding
   year thereafter an election shall take place from among the
   holders of licenses to depasture cattle or stock upon the said
   commonage (hereinafter termed “license-holders”) for the
   purpose of electing three members of the Committee instead
   of the three retiring members; and the names of such per-
   sons, when so elected, shall be submitted to the Governor for
   approval, and if so approved they shall take the place of the
   three retiring members.

4. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or
   by any two members of the Committee, provided that two
   days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, speci-
   fying the business to be transacted at such special meeting,
   and no other business than that so specified shall be trans-
   acted at such meeting.

5. Any three of the said Committee shall form a quorum.
   Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

6. The members of the Committee shall, at their first
   meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on
   the first Wednesday in January in every succeeding year
   thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may
   join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as
   a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the
   election of his successor. At such meeting a Secretary shall
   also be appointed by the Committee.

7. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the
   time appointed for holding the same, the members present
   shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of
   such meeting.

8. If, by retirement, resignation, death, or incapacity, or
   otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant,
   the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint
   a Chairman.

9. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
   votes of the members of the Committee present at a meeting.

10. The words “great cattle” shall be construed to mean
    and include cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male or female,
    and their offspring above six months of age; and the words
    “small cattle” shall be construed to mean sheep, male and
    female, and their offspring above the age of twelve months.

11. License-holders may run great or small cattle upon
    the lands described in the First Schedule upon the condi-
    tions mentioned in the depasturing license, to be obtained as
    hereinafter provided.

12. Persons desirous of obtaining a depasturing license
    must lodge with the Postmaster at Waikaka an appli-
    cation in writing in the form or to the effect contained
    in the Second Schedule hereto, and deposit therewith the