Oct. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2401

SECOND SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. — MANUNUI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
(For Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.)
Village-homestead Allotments.

Manunui Village Settlement is situated about a hundred and eighty miles from Auckland, five miles from Taumarunui, and three miles north of Piriaka Township.

The access is by the North Island Main Trunk Railway, which passes through the settlement, and is available for traffic, also by a main road from Taumarunui and Piriaka. The sections are all open, and for the most part comprise flat land; a few are situated on slopes.

Parts of Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 42, and 43 on river frontage are liable to flood.

The soil is alluvial deposit on a gravel formation.

Section 42 is weighted with £52 10s., and Section 64 is weighted with £2, valuation for improvements.

NOTE.—Owners of buildings on any of these sections will have the right to remove said buildings within one month from date of sale, if they are not successful in obtaining leases of the sections.

THIRD SCHEDULE.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands.

2. The lands in the First Schedule are village allotments, and will be offered for sale by public auction on Friday, the 15th day of December, 1905. One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance (with Crown-grant fee) within thirty days thereafter.

3. The lands in the Second Schedule are village-homestead allotments, open for selection on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and shall be open for application on Tuesday, the 5th day of December, 1905.

4. The prices and rentals stated above shall be the prices at which the lands shall be offered for sale or open for application.

5. Applications for the allotments in the Second Schedule shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington.

6. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration prescribed in Schedule C of the said Act.

7. The successful applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease and registration fee, immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot.

8. The rent must be paid half-yearly in advance, on the 1st day of January and July of each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided.

9. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in the lease shall be as provided in Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to a lessee under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to a lessee under these regulations.

10. The lessee shall not subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

11. The lessee shall hold the allotment for his or her sole use and benefit, and not for the benefit of any other person whomsoever. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will, or by virtue of an intestacy.

12. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Empowering Native Appellate Court to hear Appeal under Section 62 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of October, 1905.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section sixty-two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is provided that in any case in which application has been or shall be made to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of any order of the Court determining the succession to the estate of any Native deceased, the Governor, on being certified by the Chief Judge as in the said section is provided, may, by Order in Council, empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with such application as a valid appeal under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”: And whereas the Chief Judge has, in respect of the application of Roka te Rata under section thirty-nine aforesaid, certified as by the said section sixty-two is required: And whereas the said application in all other respects complies with the requirements of the last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with the said application as an appeal, under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” from the order of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say,—