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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 104

The Government does not bind itself to provide for continuous work for any person, nor will more than 100 acres of clearing be paid for in any case.

Advances for improvements.

16. Where the member is a married man an advance of £30, and where the member is a single man an advance of £10, may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, be made towards the cost of ploughing, fencing, erecting a dwellinghouse, and making a garden on his section; such advance not to exceed three-fourths of the value of the ploughing, fencing, building, and garden, and to bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Such amounts may be afterwards deducted from the earnings of the member in such proportions, or added to the capital value, as the Commissioner may in each instance determine; but the buildings will remain the property of the Crown until wholly paid for, and if not wholly paid for when the lease or license is issued, then the value remaining unpaid shall be added to the capital value of the land, and 4 per cent. or 5 per cent. per annum thereon be added to the rent, according to the tenure, as the case may be. Buildings of the value of £40 or over shall be insured against loss or damage by fire in the name of the King to the full amount of the advance in some fire-insurance office carrying on business in New Zealand to be approved by the Commissioner. This regulation shall not be acted upon without the special authority of the Minister of Lands, but, subject thereto, shall be applicable to lands already taken up under the regulations made under the said Act.

Agreement.

17. Every person taking up land under these regulations shall subscribe his name to an agreement in the form of the Second Schedule hereto, and no person shall be allowed to occupy any land under these regulations unless and until he has so signed.

Residence.

18. Every person to whom land is allotted in terms of these regulations shall forthwith, or within three months after the first burning of bush felled upon the said land, reside with his family and continue to reside on such land for the term of ten years, unless exempted from such residence by the Land Board. Residence in pursuance of this clause shall count as residence under “The Land Act, 1892,” and the lease or license shall, as hereafter set forth, issue in pursuance of clause 22 of these regulations.

Land may be forfeited for misconduct.

19. If any person taking up land under these regulations commits a breach of such regulations, or is dismissed for misconduct from the works, or commits any gross act of misconduct that in the opinion of the Land Board may make it undesirable that he shall any longer remain on the land, or if he commits a breach of the Land Act in respect to the same, or at any time ceases to reside with his family upon such land, his interest therein shall, by any such fact, be absolutely cancelled and forfeited without any right to compensation or otherwise, and he may be ejected accordingly, and shall cease to be a member of the association.

Rental payable under lease or license.

20. Rent at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum for every lease in perpetuity, and at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for every license to occupy with right of purchase, will commence from the 1st day of January or 1st day of July first immediately following one year from the date upon which the grass is ready for stock in cleared forest country, and in open country at such time after the advances have been expended as the Commissioner of Crown Lands considers fair and equitable; and such rent shall be based on the capital value of the land, with the addition of the cost to the Government of roading, clearing, providing and sowing of grass-seed, &c., and any other expenses in the opinion of the Commissioner fairly chargeable to the land at date of commencement of the lease or license. The cost of any additional clearing, or advances made subsequent to the before-named date at which the rent commences, shall be added to the capital value of the land, and interest thereon shall become a part of the rent, and be payable on each recurrent 1st day of January or 1st day of July; but no lease or license shall be issued to any person until he shall have paid the first half-year’s rent, and until the whole of the improvements contemplated have been completed,