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6. Each 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.

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

8. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each 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 lessees 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 lessees under these regulations.

9. No lessee shall divide, 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.

10. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and such allotment shall be held for his or her sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever. Each section is an allotment. 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.

11. 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; and 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.

Close Season for Imported and Native Game, Wanganui.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, and in compliance with written application from the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the season for taking or killing imported game and native game shall be closed absolutely during the present year in the districts comprised in the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, and that no imported game or native game of any species shall be taken or killed in the said districts during such close season.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Board, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Board shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, recommended the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instrument of title of the block of land known as Mangatainoka K No. 2c, so far as to permit the said land to be mortgaged to the Government Advances to Settlers Department:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon and vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the said land to be mortgaged to the Government Advances to Settlers Department.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing 1,525 acres, more or less, known as Mangatainoka K No. 2c, being the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 149, folio 209, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, containing the following restriction: “Inalienable by sale or mortgage, or by lease for more than twenty-one years, except with the consent of the Governor.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Board, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Board shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Aotea District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and received on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, recommended the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instrument of title of the block of land known as Waitara West, Section 31B:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon and vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Aotea District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, as from the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the Taranaki County, in the Land District of Taranaki, containing 25 acres, more or less, known as Waitara West, Section 31B, being the land comprised in a partition order dated the 12th day of November, 1896, in favour of Haromi Pirihiro and another, and being part of the land comprised in a Crown grant dated the 1st day of April, 1882, containing the following restriction: “Inalienable by sale, lease, or by mortgage for a longer period than twenty-one years, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Board, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Board shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation: