May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1713

7. There shall be appointed an officer of the Samoan Public Service who shall be called the Commissioner of Crown Estates, and who shall, subject to the direction of the Administrator of Western Samoa and the Minister of External Affairs, be charged with the execution of this Order and with the administration of the Samoan Crown estates.

8. There shall also be appointed or employed by the Minister of External Affairs or by the Administrator such other officers, clerks, and servants as may be necessary for the assistance of the Commissioner in the execution of this Order and the administration of the said estates.

9. All rents, profits, and other revenues derived from the Samoan Crown estates shall be received by the Commissioner of Crown Estates on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, and shall constitute a separate fund distinct from the public revenues of Samoa and known as the Samoan Crown Estates Account.

10. All expenditure incurred in the execution of this Order and in the administration of the said estates, including the salary and allowances of the Commissioner and of all such officers, clerks, and servants as aforesaid, shall be paid out of the Samoan Crown Estates Account.

11. From time to time, in accordance with the directions of the Minister of External Affairs, there shall be transferred from the Samoan Crown Estates Account to the Public Account of New Zealand, to the credit of the Consolidated Fund, such balances as in the opinion of the Minister are not required to meet expenditure in the execution of this Order or the administration of the Samoan Crown estates.

12. If at any time the moneys in the Samoan Crown Estates Account are insufficient to meet the calls thereon the Minister of Finance may, out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for that purpose, pay into that account such sums as may be required.

13. The Samoa Treasury Regulations, 1920, shall, so far as applicable, extend and apply to the Samoan Crown Estates Account in the same manner as to the public revenues of Samoa, save that every reference in those regulations to the Treasurer shall be read as a reference to the Commissioner of Crown Estates, and every reference to the Treasury shall be read as a reference to the Samoan Crown Estates Account.

14. All Samoan Crown estates shall, as the Minister of External Affairs thinks fit, and on such terms and in such manner as he thinks fit, be either sold, or leased, or managed by the Commissioner as a plantation, or utilized by him in such other manner as may be proper for the production of adequate revenue therefrom.

15. If any Samoan Crown estate is in the opinion of the Administrator required for the purposes of the Government of Samoa, the Minister of External Affairs may, if he thinks fit, by order under his hand and the seal of Samoa, transfer that estate to the Government of Samoa on the payment of the value thereof out of the Samoan Treasury into the Samoan Crown Estates Account, and the estate shall thereupon cease to be a Samoan Crown estate and shall become Crown land to be administered as such in the ordinary course by and on account of the Government of Samoa. For the purpose of this clause the value of an estate shall be the value as assessed by a competent valuer or valuers to be appointed for that purpose by the Minister of External Affairs. This clause shall apply to any portion of an estate in the same manner as to the whole.

16. All moneys which at the coming into operation of this Order are in the hands of the Military Government of Samoa as the proceeds of the administration of any property which by this Order becomes vested in the Crown shall be forthwith paid into the Samoan Crown Estates Account.

17. All liabilities which have been incurred by the Military Government of Samoa in the administration of any such property and are outstanding at the coming into operation of this Order shall