REGULATIONS.

1. Form 9 in the Schedule to the said Regulations is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor :—

FORM 9. (Reg. 31.)

Under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and Amendments.

APPLICATION FOR A COAL LEASE.

[If the land is situate wholly outside a mining district, the application must be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Land District, and this form must be altered accordingly.]

To the Warden of the Mining District at

PURSUANT to the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and amendments, the undersigned [full name, residence, and occupation], hereby applies for a coal lease in respect of the following land : [Insert section and block numbers and name of Survey District, and describe boundaries of land and identify area with reasonable particularity by reference to its situation and ownership].

[Where the area applied for does not exceed twenty acres section 2 of the Coal-mines Amendment Act, 1924, requires “a locality plan, in duplicate, of the area applied for, with the boundaries thereof defined by a compass traverse connected with a fixed and clearly indicated survey-mark or with the corner of a section or the angle of a road, shall be filed with the application.”]

Area applied for : acres roods perches.

The said land is [State if unalienated Crown lands, or reserve, or endowment, giving nature thereof.]

Mark on pegs :

Date of marking out :

Address for service :

Dated at this day of , 192 .

[Signature of applicant : A.B. or, as the case may be,
A.B. by his Solicitor or registered agent C.D.]

Precise time of filing this application (e.g., 6th March, 1924, at 2.30 p.m.)

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto (e.g., Monday, 23rd March, 1924; at 10 a.m. at Warden’s Court at )

Objections must be filed in the Registrar’s office and notified to applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.

Mining Registrar.

2. Form 10 in the Schedule to the said Regulations is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor :—

FORM 10. (Reg. 31.)

Under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and Amendments.

APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE TO PROSPECT FOR COAL.

(As in Form 9, with requisite modifications.)

3. Regulations 36 and 37 are hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor :—

“36. The sums to be lodged with the Receiver under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 8 of the Coal-mines Act, 1908, to abide the disposal of the application, shall, according to the nature of the application, be the sums set forth in Form 13 in the Schedule hereto.

“37. The Warden or Commissioner, before disposing of the application, shall satisfy himself that the sums lodged as aforesaid are sufficient to pay all fees and other charges in respect whereof the lodgment has been made, and they shall be applied in payment thereof accordingly, and the surplus (if any) shall be returned to the person entitled thereto:

“Provided that the sums deposited under these regulations as rental shall be refunded to the persons entitled thereto without deduction in the event of the application not being granted.”

4. Form 13 in the Schedule to the said regulations is hereby amended by adding the following scale of fees thereto :—

“For every application under the provisions of the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its amendments, for a coal lease, or a lignite license, or a license to prospect for coal, or a tramway license £ s. d. ... 0 5 0

“For every application for an extension of a coal lease, or to amalgamate coal leases, or for consent to transfer or assign a coal lease or a lignite license or a coal-prospecting license or a tramway license ... ... ... 0 5 0

“For every other application under the provisions of the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its amendments ... ... ... ... 0 2 6

“For preparation and issue of any lease or license or for consent of Minister of Mines to the renewal or transfer or assignment of any lease or license ... ... ... 1 1 0

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council
(Mines N. 3/2/1.)

Amending the Boundaries of the Land Districts of Taranaki and Wellington.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section twenty-nine of the Land Act, 1924, certain land districts are constituted, and it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, define the boundaries of any land district, constitute one or more additional land districts, abolish any land district, alter the boundaries of any land district, or appoint any place, either within or without a particular land district, to be the Principal Land Office of that district.
And whereas it is desirable to alter the boundaries of the Taranaki and Wellington Land Districts:
Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby order and declare that from and after the date hereof the boundaries of the Taranaki Land District shall be such as are described in the First Schedule hereto, and the boundaries of the Wellington Land District shall be such as are described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
BOUNDARIES OF TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
All that area bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Mokau River and proceeding thence up the middle of that river to the western boundary of the Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 36 Block, and southerly along that boundary to the Waimiha Stream ; thence down the middle of that stream, the middle of the Ongarue Stream, and the middle of the Wanganui River to the mouth of the Pakakau Stream ; thence by a right line to the nearest point of the Pipiriki Road, and south-westerly generally along the middle of that road and the middle of Makakaho Road to the southern boundary of Section 5, Block IV, Kapara Survey District ; thence along the southern boundaries of Sections 5 and 6, Block IV aforesaid, across Puraroto Road, to the southern boundary of Section 3, Block IV aforesaid ; thence along the southern boundary of said Section 3, and the south-eastern boundaries of Subdivisions 8 and 9, Mangapapa No. 2 Block, to the south-eastern boundary of Kapara Survey District; thence along the south-eastern boundaries of Kapara, Opaku, and Carlyle Survey Districts, to the north-eastern corner of Lot 2 of part Sections 452 and 453, Okotuku Registration District, as shown on Plan 3374, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at New Plymouth ; thence along the north-eastern, north-western, and south-western boundaries of said Lot 2 to the south-eastern boundary of Carlyle Survey District; thence south-westerly along that boundary to the sea at the mouth of the Patea River; thence northerly generally along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Mokau River, the place of commencement; including all islands adjacent to the coast.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
BOUNDARIES OF WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
All that area bounded by a line commencing at the southern-most corner of the Carlyle Survey District at the mouth of the Patea, and proceeding thence along the boundary of the Taranaki Land District hereinbefore described to the confluence of the Ongarue and Wanganui Rivers; thence along the boundary of the Auckland Land District as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1923, page 720, to the Ngaruroro River; thence down the middle of that river to the northern corner of Timahanga Block; thence along the north-western boundary of the said Timahanga Block to Te Waimara Stream, along the middle of that stream, and the middle of the Taruara, Ikaawetea, and Makirikiri Streams, to the northern boundary of the Awarua Block; thence north-westerly along that boundary to the summit of Ruahine Range, and southerly along the said summit of range to Trig. Station 60A; thence south-westerly to the northernmost corner of Section 10, Block XVI, Woodville Survey District, and along the western boundaries of said Section 10, a public road, and the north-western boundary of Section 11, Block XVI, Woodville Survey District, along the western boundaries of Sections 12 and 11, Block XIV, Woodville Survey District; and of a railway reserve to the Manawatu River; thence up the middle of that river to the south-western boundary of