APRIL 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

57. Any person who, without reasonable cause, makes default
    in compliance with the requirements of any of the preceding clauses
    numbered 50 to 56 (inclusive) shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £2
    for such default.

BREACHES OF THE LAW BY VILLAGE COMMUNITIES.

58. (1.) If upon the information of any officer of the Administration
    authorized in writing by the Administrator to lay the same, charging
    that there has been a general breach of the law in the part of any village
    community, it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that there has
    been such general breach, and that there is no reasonable excuse for
    such breach, and that the law so broken was or reasonably might have
    been generally known among such community, the Court may inflict
    a fine not exceeding £25 in respect of such breach.

(2.) Any fine so inflicted or any unpaid balance thereof shall be
deemed to be payable by such of the matais resident in such village and
in such proportion as the Court shall from time to time direct or, in the
absence of any such direction, by all such matais in equal proportions.

(3.) The Court shall direct service of any information under this
clause upon such person and in such manner as it shall think necessary
in order to bring such information to the notice generally of the
inhabitants of such village, and any such service shall be deemed to be
sufficient service.

(4.) No proceedings under this clause shall be taken or heard save
before the Chief Judge of the Court.

RESERVATION OF NATIVE LAND FOR CHURCH PURPOSES.

59. In the following clauses of these regulations “Church purposes”
    means and includes the provision of a site for a place of worship, or for
    a pastor’s house, or for a school conducted by a religious denomination,
    or for houses for pupils or teachers of such a school, or for a plantation
    for the support of pupils or teachers of such a school, or any one or more
    or such purposes.

60. If and whenever the Administrator shall be satisfied that any
    Native land has been at any time sold, gifted, or set aside by the Samoan
    owners thereof exclusively for Church purposes for the benefit of the
    adherents of some Christian denomination, and that the said owners
    are willing that such land shall be exclusively so used in perpetuity,
    and that no lawful alienation or disposition of the said land by way of
    conveyance, lease, or otherwise has been made in pursuance of the
    aforesaid sale, gift, or setting-aside, the Administrator, on application
    in writing made on behalf of the said adherents, may, by Proclamation
    under his hand, declare that land to be reserved for Church purposes,
    and to be held for the adherents of the said denomination.

61. Every Proclamation made under the preceding clause shall be
    published in the Western Samoa Gazette and in some official publication
    circulating among Samoans.

62. Native land which has been declared by a Proclamation under
    clause 60 to be reserved for Church purposes shall from the date of such
    Proclamation be held by the Crown for the use exclusively of the
    adherents of the denomination named in such Proclamation for Church
    purposes for so long as in the opinion of the Administrator there shall
    be any of such adherents reasonably requiring its use for Church purposes,
    and in the event of there ceasing to be any such adherents so reasonably
    requiring, then such land shall be held by the Crown for such other use
    for the benefit of the Samoans in general, or of the particular community
    to whom the land originally belonged, as the Administrator shall from
    time to time determine.

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