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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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4. The decision of the Land Board, either in regard to the
   suitability or otherwise of any applicant, the sufficiency of
   capital possessed by him, or any other matter connected with
   the allotment of any section, shall be final and conclusive.
5. Except on the recommendation of the Land Board, and
   with the approval of the Minister, a single woman shall not
   be eligible to apply for land under these regulations.

IMPROVEMENTS.

6. Within two years after the date of selection the licensee
   shall clear and bring under cultivation not less than one-
   tenth of the total area of his selection, and in addition thereto
   shall place upon the land substantial improvements of a
   permanent character to a value equal to not less than ten
   shillings per acre.
7. Within four years after the date of selection the licensee
   shall clear and bring under cultivation an additional area
   of not less than one-third of the total area of his selection,
   and in addition thereto shall place upon the land substantial
   improvements of a permanent character to an additional
   value of not less than ten shillings per acre.
8. Within six years after the date of selection the licensee
   shall have laid down in permanent cultivated grasses and
   clovers not less than one-half of the total area of the section,
   and have placed upon the land substantial improvements of a
   permanent character to a total value of not less than thirty
   shillings per acre.
9. Before any improvements are effected upon any of the
   lands disposed of under these regulations, a proposal setting
   out the improvements in detail shall be submitted for the
   approval of the Land Board.
10. All areas brought into cultivation, and all improve-
    ments placed upon the land, shall be maintained in good order
    and condition during the currency of the license. All areas
    brought under pasture shall be so maintained by the neces-
    sary application of manures.

FORFEITURES AND SURRENDERS.

11. If any licensee under these regulations shall fail from
    time to time to effect such improvements as may be pre-
    scribed by these regulations, or in any other manner shall
    commit any breach of any conditions to which his license
    is subject, whether express or implied, his interest therein
    shall be liable to be absolutely forfeited, and the land shall
    revert to His Majesty the King.
12. Any licensee under these regulations may, with the
    consent of the Minister, on the recommendation of the Land
    Board, surrender his interest in his license.

SCHEDULE.

Under Section 223 of the Land Act, 1924.

LICENSE TO OCCUPY.

WHEREAS , of , in the Land District of
, in the Dominion of New Zealand, has made appli-
cation for a license to occupy the land described in the
Schedule hereto: And whereas the said applicant has complied
with the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and amendments
and with regulations made thereunder, and it appears expe-
dient to grant the said license on the terms and conditions
hereinafter set forth :
Now, therefore, I, , Commissioner of Crown Lands
for the Land District of , do hereby license and
authorize the said to occupy the land in the Schedule
hereto for a period of ten years commencing from the
day of , 19 , upon the terms and conditions fol-
lowing, namely :—
No rent shall be payable by the licensee in respect of the
occupation of the land hereby demised.
At any time after the completion of improvements to the
value prescribed in the aforesaid regulations in respect of the
period of six years after the date of selection of the land
comprised herein, and before the expiry hereof, the licensee,
if he has complied to the satisfaction of the Board with all
the conditions of this license, shall be entitled, without pay-
ment, other than payment of the prescribed fee in respect
of issue of certificate of title, to become the owner in fee-
simple of the land comprised herein, subject to the certificate
of title being subject to all undischarged charges and encum-
brances to which this license may be subject at the date of
issue of such certificate.
And it is hereby declared and agreed that these presents
are intended to take effect as a license to occupy under the
provisions of section 223 of the Land Act, 1924, and the
provisions of the said enactment and of the aforesaid regu-
lations shall be as binding on the parties hereto as if such
provisions had respectively been set out herein at length.
Dated this day of , 19 .
Commissioner of Crown Lands for the
Land District of ,

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Land District, in the Dominion
of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement
acres roods perches, more or less, situated
in the Survey District of , being Section
numbered , Block , on the map of the said
district, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at
. As the same is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin
hereof and thereon coloured red.

Licensee.

Signed by the above-named as licensee in the presence
of .

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Stratford
County Council in respect of a Loan of £4,500, being a further
Portion of a Loan of £21,000, authorized to be raised for
effecting Road Improvements in, and purchasing Machinery
for, the South Riding.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 25th day
of January, 1927.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fourteen of the
Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, it is provided that,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or
in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has
been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is
thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to
a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate
of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not
specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof
has not been borrowed, the local authority or public body
may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance,
borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been
borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be
prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council :
And whereas the Stratford County Council has been
authorized to borrow the sum of twenty-one thousand pounds
for effecting road improvements in, and purchasing machinery
for, the South Riding, and is now desirous of raising the sum
of four thousand five hundred pounds, being a further portion
of the loan of twenty-one thousand pounds :
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent
consent as required by the above-recited section one hundred
and fourteen, and it is desired that the rate of interest at
which the money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per
centum per annum :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of
interest that may be paid by the Stratford County Council in
respect of the said sum of four thousand five hundred pounds
shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and
the said Stratford County Council is hereby authorized to
borrow the said sum of four thousand five hundred pounds
accordingly.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Paeroa
Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £1,000, being a further
Portion of a Loan of £42,750, authorized to be raised for
Drainage Works.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 25th day
of January, 1927.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fourteen of the
Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, it is provided that,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in
any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has