Num. 30.

1017

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1903.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1903.

Amending Regulations under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of April, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the fiftieth section of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council published in the Gazette and Kahiti, make regulations for any of the purposes in the said section specified:

And whereas regulations under the above-in-part-recited Act have been made by Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred, published in the Gazette of the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, and Kahiti of the sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one:

And whereas it is deemed advisable to amend and alter several of the aforesaid regulations as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby amend and alter the aforesaid regulations in the following manner, that is to say,—

Regulation forty-seven is hereby amended by inserting after the paragraph defining first-class land, and immediately preceding the paragraph defining second-class land, the following words—“First-class land shall also be deemed to be swamp land, or land covered with standing forest, scrub, or other high vegetation, such land not being of less value than one pound per acre, and capable, when reclaimed, cleared, or improved, of being utilised wholly or in part for agricultural or dairying purposes”; and is also further amended by deleting the words “including standing forest irrespective of value,” in the paragraph describing second-class land.

Regulation fifty-one is hereby amended by substituting the words “thirty days” for “sixty days” therein, so as to read “which time shall not be less than thirty days from the day of the first publication of the notice in such local newspaper as aforesaid.”

Regulation sixty-one is hereby amended by substituting the words “three months” for the words “one year” therein.

The following regulation is hereby made in regard to offering lands for lease as small grazing-runs:—

“64a. The Council shall have power to offer for lease any lands as small grazing-runs which are suitable only for occupation in larger areas than 2,000 acres, and may classify the land into first- or second-class pastoral country. The area of a first-class small grazing-run shall not exceed 5,000 acres, and the area of a second-class small grazing-run shall not exceed 20,000 acres; and the whole of these regulations, and the forms of tender, declaration, &c., with necessary alterations and amendments, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.”

Regulation sixty-six is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “shall not exceed thirty years” for the words “shall be twenty-one years” therein.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating District Electors Rolls, Melrose.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of April, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the hereinafter-mentioned district electors rolls of the then existing Borough of Melrose were prepared and completed after the times required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the district electors rolls of the then existing Borough of Melrose for the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three, so prepared and completed as aforesaid, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been prepared and completed within the times required by the said Act, and regulations made thereunder.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.