90
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 3

3. The allotment of sections to members of the association shall be made at such time and in such manner as the association may, with the consent of the Commissioner, determine.

4. The land shall be disposed of by lease at an annual rental of 4 per cent. on the capital value fixed by the Minister.

5. One-third of the rents 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 in or leading to the block. Such expenditure to be first sanctioned by the Land Board for the Land District of Auckland.

6. All rents and moneys 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 discharge for the payment of the moneys therein respectively acknowledged to have been received.

7. The settlers shall be members of the association, and no settler shall be under seventeen years of age.

8. The secretary shall inform the Commissioner of the names of the settlers; pay a deposit of one half-year’s rent and lease fee of £1 1s.; and also furnish the Commissioner from time to time with minutes of proceedings of the association if so required.

9. The original or amended list of members deposited in the office of the Commissioner shall be prima facie evidence that the persons claiming to select land are members of the association.

10. Each settler shall put on the land comprised in his lease substantial improvements as follows:—
    (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, to a value equal to 10 per cent. of the price of the land;
    (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another 10 per cent. of the price of the land;
    (c.) And thereafter, but within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another 10 per cent. of the price of the land.

And, in addition thereto, shall, within six years from the date of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent character to an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land.

11. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in accordance with Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

12. No person who is the owner in fee or leasehold of any land in New Zealand which, together with the land included in his application or transfer under these regulations, would exceed 320 acres, and no person who has made an arrangement or agreement to permit any one, save his own son or daughter, to acquire by purchase or otherwise the allotment in respect of which his application is made, shall be entitled to become a settler under these regulations.

13. Any settler who shall fail to comply with these regulations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Land Board of the district, forfeit his interest in the land selected, and the land shall thereafter be dealt with as ordinary Crown land; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority for such forfeiture.

14. The association may make such rules and regulations from time to time as it may deem necessary, subject to the approval of the Commissioner.

15. In case any doubt shall arise as to the sufficiency of the compliance with these regulations, with reference to the selection, occupation, or improvement of any land, or otherwise arising thereunder respectively, the same shall be settled by the Land Board.

16. Excepting as expressly modified by these regulations, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, shall be deemed to have full force and effect over and upon the land herein referred to, and shall, mutatis mutandis, be read as if these regulations formed part of the Act.

Schedule.

All that area of land in the Auckland Land District, containing 7,390 acres, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block II.; 1 to 3, 5 to 9, and 11 to 16, Block VI.; 1 to 3, and 5 to 14, Block IX.; and 5 to 8, Block X., Otanake Survey District, Kawhia County.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands 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 Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three; and also that the lands 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 they contain or are supposed to contain metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Mining Act, 1898,” and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TAURANGA COUNTY.

First-class Land.

All wiwi and raupo swamp, with a little dry land in Section 5; fronting Kaituna River. From three to seven miles from Maketu.

Te Tumu .. .. | 2 | VI. | *124 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 2 19 6

Wiwi and raupo swamp land fronting Kaituna River; about three miles from Maketu.

Maketu .. .. | 2 | III. | 358 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 8 11 10

" .. .. | 3 | " | 128 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 3 1 6

" .. .. | 4 | " | 153 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 3 13 6

" .. .. | 5 | " | 250 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 6 0 0

" .. .. | 6 | " | 295 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 7 1 8

Raupo, manuka, and wiwi swamp land. Sections 4 and 6 front Kaituna River. From three to seven miles from Maketu.

Maketu .. .. | 14 | IV. | 260 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 6 4 10

" .. .. | 15 | " | 137 0 0 | 0 11·52 | 3 4 2

Raupo, manuka, and wiwi swamp land, with a little dry land on Section 14. Situated from two to three miles from Maketu.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.