May 25. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1193

Prescribing Terms and Conditions upon which certain Lands shall be held by District Maori Land Council.

WHEREAS by section 3 of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1904” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted: (1) That the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are vested in the Maori Land Council of the district in which they are situated (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) for the purpose of being administered under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its amendments, in the same manner as if they had been transferred to the Council; and (2) that the said lands shall be held and administered by the Council upon such terms as to leasing, cutting up, managing, improving, and raising money, not being inconsistent with the provisions of the last-mentioned Act, as may be declared by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette and Kahiti: Provided that if the Natives in any case within the period of two months from the date of the passing of the said Act should repay to the Minister the total amount paid by him, as set out in the Schedule to the said Act, in respect of any mortgage, the provisions thereof would not apply to the land which was the subject of such mortgage:

Now, therefore, I, James Carroll, the Minister of Native Affairs, in pursuance of the provisions of section 3 of the said Act, do hereby notify and declare that the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto, and in respect of which repayment has not been made by the Natives as provided, shall, subject to the provisions of section 3 of the said Act, be held and administered by the Council upon the terms and for any of the purposes following, that is to say,—

(1.) After reserving and rendering inalienable such portion, if any, of the said land as may be required for the occupation and support of the Maori owners thereof, or for burial-grounds, eel-pas or eel-weirs, fishing-grounds, or as reserves for the protection of native birds, or the conservation of timber and fuel for the future use of the Maori owners, to lease by public tender the balance of the said land or any part or parts thereof, or any easement, right, or privilege over or in relation to the same, for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, to take effect in possession, at the best rent or rents that can reasonably be obtained, and with or without covenant for renewal, and subject to such other covenants, conditions, and agreements as the Council may deem proper.

(2.) To manage the said land in all respects as the Council may consider advantageous or advisable in the interests of the Maori owners, and to make such improvements upon the premises as in the opinion of the Council shall be necessary or advisable.

(3.) To make allowances to and arrangements with tenants, and to accept a surrender of any lease or tenancy for the time being affecting the whole or any part of the said land, and so that if any lease shall be granted under the aforesaid powers on the surrender of a then-existing or prior lease or tenancy, the value of the interest surrendered, or compensation for improvements or otherwise in respect of such lease or tenancy, may be taken into account in fixing the rent and other terms of the new lease.

(4.) To enter into, alter, vary, and rescind agreements for or in relation to the exercise of the said powers of leasing, and to agree to the apportionment of an entire rent between different parts of the property to be leased, and so that on such apportionment being made the requirement that the best yearly rent or rents be reserved shall apply to the aggregate of the rents reserved by the said leases, and not to the rent reserved by any one lease; but no lease to be granted in pursuance of any such agreement shall be granted for a longer term than could have been granted at the date of such agreement.

(5.) To borrow money on the security of the said land, or a definite part thereof, to such extent and on such terms in all respects as the Council thinks fit, and, should the Council see fit, to apply the net proceeds so borrowed in or towards discharging valid mortgages or survey-charging liens and other bond fide valid expenses or debts of the Maori owners incurred within the six years preceding the passing of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” in perfecting the title to the said land, or to any other lands owned by the same Maoris, and to apply the balance in cutting up, surveying, roading, opening up, preparing, and advertising such lands for lease, or generally improving such land or any other land of the same owners.

SCHEDULE.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Tenders for Supply of Coal, 1905-6.

Railway Department (Head Office), Wellington, 18th May, 1905.

THE under-mentioned successful and unsuccessful tender rates for the supply and delivery of New Zealand lignite or brown coal for the New Zealand railways for 1905-6 are published for general information.

By order.

A. L. BEATTIE,
For General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

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