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2. The day on which the said lands shall be open for selection shall be Monday, the 7th day of December, 1908.

3. The rentals stated above shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases 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; and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I aforesaid.

5. 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 prescribed declaration.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent, together with the lease and registration fee (£1 1s.), and in the case of Section 26, Block I, the value of the improvements, immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot; also the rent for the period elapsing between the date of the lease and the due date of such half-yearly payment.

7. All rent must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 180 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is payable as before provided.

8. Preference will be given over the other applicants to landless married bona fide co-operative workers with children who have been engaged on the North Island Main Trunk Railway or on any of the roads or other works pertaining thereto, also to landless married bona fide employees at sawmills in the vicinity of Kakahi within such a radius as may be defined by the Land Board; and preference will be given to single co-operative workers and single employees at sawmills employed on the same works and at the same mills over all other applicants not so employed. In order to secure preference every applicant will require to forward with his application a certificate, signed by an officer of the Public Works or Roads Department or by the manager of a sawmill, showing that he has been employed on the works mentioned for a period not less than three months during the twelve months preceding the ballot.

9. 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 162, 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 159, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

10. 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.

11. No lessee shall apply for or 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. Persons who already hold land shall not be eligible as selectors.

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; 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.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead Allotments in Rangataua Village Settlement, Wellington Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of October, 1908.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-third section of “The Land Act, 1908,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have been set apart under the said Act and declared open for lease as a village settlement, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of renewable lease, and which said terms and conditions are set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. — WAIMARINO COUNTY. — BLOCK V, KARIOI SURVEY DISTRICT.—RANGATAUA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Village-homestead Allotments.

Rangataua is situated on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, about three miles south-east of Ohakune, and is eighty-two miles distant from Marton Junction and 198 miles from Wellington.

The sections are in standing mixed bush, and are nearly all level; some are wet in parts.

A sawmill, general store, post and telegraph office, and school have already been erected in the vicinity.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. THE lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are village-homestead allotments, open for selection on renewable lease for periods of sixty-six years under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

2. The day on which the said lands shall be open for selection shall be Tuesday, the 1st day of December, 1908.

3. The rentals stated above shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases 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; and leases shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I aforesaid.

5. 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 prescribed declaration.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent, together with the lease and registration fee (£1 1s.), immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot; also the rent for the period elapsing between the date of the lease and the due date of such half-yearly payment.

7. All rent must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 180 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is payable as before provided.