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receive the same, and the receipt of the President or such person so appointed shall be a good discharge to the lessee.
(2.) Any power which may be exercisable under these presents by or on behalf of the lessor may from time to time be exercised by any person whom he from time to time appoints for that purpose.
(3.) Service on the lessee of any notice under this lease may be effected either personally or by posting the same in a registered letter addressed to him, either at his last known place of business or abode in the colony or at the demised land.
(4.) The lessee, faithfully observing and performing all the covenants, conditions, and agreements on his part herein contained or implied, shall, on the expiration by effluxion of time of the term hereby granted, have the right to a renewal of the lease, or to valuation for all substantial improvements of a permanent character made or owned by him and then existing on the demised land: Provided that such right shall exist only to the extent and subject to the conditions following, that is to say :-
(1.) Not sooner than nine nor later than six months before the expiration of the said term by effluxion of time two separate valuations shall be made in manner prescribed (mutatis mutandis) by sections 79 and 80 of 'The Land Act, 1892,' of (a.) All such improvements as aforesaid ; and of
(b.) The annual ground-rent of the land (exclusive of such improvements as aforesaid) for a fresh term of twenty-one years.
(2.) After the making and publishing of the aforesaid valuations, which shall be effected by serving a copy thereof on the lessee and another copy on the lessor, but not later than one month before the date of such expiration as aforesaid, the lessee shall, by notice in writing served on the lessor, elect whether he will accept a new lease of the demised land (including the aforesaid improvements) for a fresh term of twenty-one years, computed from the date of such expiration as aforesaid, at the annual ground-rent ascertained by valuation as aforesaid, and subject in all other respects to the same covenants and conditions as those of this present lease.
(3.) If for any reason the lessee does not duly elect in manner aforesaid to accept such new lease, or if, having duly elected, he for any reason does not execute such new lease when requested by the lessor so to do, his right to a new lease shall be and be deemed to be abandoned, and the land shall be disposed of by lease at such time, in such manner, and subject to such conditions not inconsistent with the said Act and its amendments and the regulations for the time being in force thereunder as the lessor thinks fit : Provided that it shall be one of the conditions of the new lease that the new lessee pays to the lessor the amount at which the improvements (if then existing) have been valued as aforesaid, or such less amount as the lessor thinks just, having regard to the extent to which such improvements have deteriorated since the date of the said valuation; and all moneys actually received by the lessor in respect of such valuation shall be paid over to the lessee under this present lease as soon as the lessor is satisfied that the new lessee has been admitted into full and quiet possession of the premises : Provided, further, that in no case shall the lessee under this present lease have any claim against the lessor in respect of any such improvements, or of the value thereof, save to the extent of the moneys which are actually received as aforesaid from the new lessee, and available for payment, and which the lessee under this present lease becomes actually entitled to.
In witness whereof the seal of the District Maori Land Council has been hereunto affixed, and we have hereunto subscribed our names, the day and year first above written.
, President.
Members of Council.
}, Lessee.
Sealed and signed as aforesaid in the presence of--
12. Each allotment shall be debited in the books of the Council with all charges registered or capable of being registered against it, and with such proportion of the expenses incurred by the Council or the Government in connection with the administration of the Acts hereinbefore referred to, as the Council may consider just. Such charges shall be deducted by instalments, to be decided from time to time by the Council, extending over any period not exceeding ten years, from the income of the land, and the balance thereof
shall be paid to the beneficial owners as soon as possible after the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each year.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly ; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.
Approved in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
Additional Land set apart for Niho Niho Improved-farm Special Settlement, Taranaki Land District.
(L.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the one-hundred-and-sixty-second section of 'The Land Act, 1892,' and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby set apart and declared open for lease as part of the Niho Niho Improved-farm Special Settlement.
SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 66 acres, more or less, being formerly a portion of Section No. 6, Block Vll., Ohura Survey District, and known now as portion of Section No. 3, Block VII., Ohura Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Section No. 2 of Ohura South K No. 2 Block, 5370.1 links ; towards the east generally by Turoto Road, 4143.4 links ; and towards the south generally by the other portion of Section No. 3 aforesaid, 3064.3 links, and Waiora Road, 1275.6 links : as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 47970, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly ; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
Proclaiming Main and Branch Totara Rivers, together with their Tributaries, in the Land District of Nelson, to be Watercourses.
(L.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-fifty-second section of 'The Mining Act, 1891,' as continued by section seven of 'The Mining Act, 1898' (hereinafter termed 'the said Acts'), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, proclaim and declare that any watercourse shall be a watercourse into which tailings, mining debris, and waste water of any kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding shall be suffered to flow or be discharged:
And whereas notice of application having been made to proclaim the watercourses hereinafter mentioned was gazetted on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six:
And whereas His Excellency the Governor has decided to exercise the powers conferred upon him by the said Acts :
Now, therefore, His Excellency Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,