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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

Rules and Regulations under “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882.”

In the matter of “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882.”

WE, the undersigned Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, do hereby, by virtue of the powers granted to us by “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882,” make the following rules and regulations respecting the examination of candidates for barristers and solicitors:—

1. Clause 5 of the rules and regulations which came into force on the 1st January, 1901, and which were published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 26th July, 1900, No. 67, pages 1428 and 1429, is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:—

“5. A candidate may take the examinations in general knowledge and in law in any order or in the same year. This provision shall take effect as from the 1st January, 1903.”

2. Clause 1 of the rules and regulations which were published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 11th April, 1901, No. 36, page 877, is hereby repealed, and the following shall be substituted therefor and added to clause No. 11 of the first-named rules and regulations, namely:—

“The foregoing subjects may be taken either together or in sections, as provided by the New Zealand University in the case of the third examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and for the purposes of this clause the first-mentioned three subjects shall be deemed to be the second LL.B. examination, and the remaining subjects shall be deemed to be the third LL.B. examination.”

3. Clauses Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of the rules and regulations last named—viz., the rules and regulations of April, 1901—are hereby repealed, and the following shall be substituted therefor, and shall be read as an addendum to clause No. 16 of the first-named rules and regulations:—

“The examination may be taken either all at once or in two sections, the first section consisting of any two or three of the above-mentioned subjects, and the second section consisting of the remaining subjects not passed in the first section.”

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of April, 1904.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, J.
J. E. DENNISTON, J.
W. B. EDWARDS, J.
THEO. COOPER, J.
FRED. R. CHAPMAN, J.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Canterbury Land District surrendered.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 25th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that, a surrender of the lease of the undermentioned land having been accepted by the Canterbury Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Lands in Canterbury Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 25th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the leases of the undermentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Canterbury Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—HANMER SPRINGS TOWNSHIP.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Lands at Hanmer Springs, Canterbury Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th April, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned town sections at Hanmer Springs will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of forty-two years, at the Hanmer Sanatorium, Hanmer Springs, on Wednesday, the 15th day of June, 1904, at 11 a.m.

In the event of any of the sections not being disposed of at auction, they will immediately thereafter be open for lease on application at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at the upset annual rentals stated below.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT. — AMURI COUNTY. — HANMER SPRINGS TOWNSHIP.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of a half-year’s rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee, and the amount of valuation for improvements (if any), must be paid on the fall of the hammer, or with the application for the lease.

2. Possession will be given on day of sale, or on approval by the Land Board of the application.

3. The leases will be for a term of forty-two years.

4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free of all deductions whatsoever; and if not paid within twenty-one days after due date the lessor may re-enter upon the land and determine the lease.

5. The lessee shall have no right to mortgage, sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

6. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

7. The lessee shall prevent the growth or spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease; and shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lessee shall not carry on, or permit to be carried on, upon the land or any part thereof, any noisy, noxious, or offensive trade or manufacture, or do or suffer to be done thereon any act or thing whatsoever which may be an annoyance to the lessor or to any other lessee in the neighbourhood.

9. In the event of the lessee, upon the expiry of the term, not again becoming the occupier of the land under a fresh lease, he shall be entitled to payment of valuation for all improvements which he shall have effected upon the land, so far as the same are existing and unexhausted.

10. The lessee of every town section shall, within one year from the date of selection, erect upon each section a permanent building of a value of at least £50.

Sale plans may be obtained at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.