Num. 3.

89

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1903.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1903.

Appointing Members of the Surveyors' Board under “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of January, 1903.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

I N pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby appoint, as from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, the undermentioned persons to be members of the Surveyors' Board constituted by the said Act, namely,—

JOHN STRAUCHON,
MORGAN CARKEEK,
The Hon. GEORGE FREDERICK RICHARDSON, and
ARTHUR O'NEIL O'DONAHO,

the two first-named persons having been nominated by the Minister of Lands, and the two last-named persons having been nominated by the Council of the Institute of Surveyors, as required by the said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Otanake Special Settlement Association.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this 5th day of January, 1903.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS 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 hereinbefore-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 Otanake Special Settlement Association 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 context shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

“Association” means the Otanake Special Settlement Association, being a body of persons not less than thirty-six in number, associated together for the purpose of taking up the land as a special settlement of farm homesteads:

“Land” means the land described in the schedule, set apart for a special settlement, to be dealt with under these regulations:

“Receiver of Land Revenue” means Receiver of Land Revenue at Auckland, or other officer for the time being acting as such:

“Settler” means any member of the association or other person leasing land under these regulations:

“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 Auckland:

“Secretary” means the secretary of the association for the time being, and shall include any person acting in that capacity, and, if there shall be no secretary, then the chairman of the association:

“Substantial improvements of a permanent character” means and includes reclamation from swamp, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting with trees or live hedges, the laying-out and cultivation of gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erection of any building:—

“Cultivation” means—
(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence; or
(2.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or other cultivated grass; or
(3.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other crops therein.

“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 regulations has been surveyed into sections of not more than 320 acres each, and the number of persons to be located thereon shall not be less than thirty-six.