Dec. 8.

Regulations under the Census and Statistics Act, 1926.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of December, 1927.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Census and Statistics Act, 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations prescribing additional matters in regard to which the Statistician shall collect statistics, and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Transfer and Mortgage Statistics Regulations, 1927.
2. In addition to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (s) of section 9 of the Census and Statistics Act, 1926, the Statistician shall, subject to that section, collect statistics relating to conveyances, transfers, mortgages, and dealings with mortgages of land in New Zealand.
3. Every person presenting for registration at any Land Registry Office, or Deeds Register Office, or to any District Agent appointed under the Land Transfer Act, 1915, or the Deeds Registration Act, 1908, any instrument operating as a conveyance, transfer, lease, mortgage, encumbrance, or other assurance or charge of land or of any estate or interest therein (including transfers of mortgages and mortages of mortgages, but not including instruments operating solely to create, assure, or charge an easement affecting land) shall, at the time of such presentation, furnish in writing to the District Land Registrar, Registrar of Deeds, or District Agent (as the case may be), in respect of each such instrument, the following information relating thereto:

(1) The name of the county, city, borough, or town district (whether such town district be part of a county or not) in which the land dealt with is situated.

(2) In the case of assurances (otherwise than by way of mortgage or charge, lease or sublease) of freehold or leasehold interests in land, if there is a separate Government valuation for the parcel of land dealt with, then the amount of such valuation; and if there is a separate Government valuation for the separate interest in land dealt with, then the amount of such valuation.

(3) In every case, the nature and purpose for which the land comprised in the instrument is for the time being used, being one of the following classes of purpose:

(i) Farming purposes (inclusive of sheep farms, dairy farms, agricultural farms, fruit farms, bee farms, and every other kind of farm).

(ii) Mainly or solely residential purposes.

(iii) Business purposes, including retail and wholesale businesses, manufacturing establishments, and offices.

(iv) Combined residential and business purposes.

(v) Miscellaneous purposes—that is to say, any purpose not set out above.

(4) In the case of a mortgage, the purpose for which the amount secured thereby is required, being one of the following purposes:

(i) To secure to vendor unpaid purchase-money of property mortgaged:

(ii) To secure loan (to lender other than vendor) to enable mortgagor to purchase property mortgaged;

(iii) To secure loan to enable mortgagor to build on property mortgaged;

(iv) To secure loan to enable mortgagor to improve or develop property mortgaged otherwise than by building;

(v) To secure current account of mortgagor;

(vi) To secure loan for purposes not connected with property mortgaged;

(vii) To repay existing mortgage;

(viii) To secure liabilities of mortgagor other than loans;

(ix) To secure liabilities of persons other than mortgagor;

(x) To secure payment of debentures;

(xi) For other purposes;

(xii) For two or more classes of purpose in conjunction.

4. It shall be sufficient compliance with these regulations if the person presenting for registration any instrument as set out in the last preceding regulation shall insert, in the place or places provided on the form known as “Abstract of Instruments presented for Registration or Deposit” and in accordance with the instructions on or accompanying the said form, the information specified in the last preceding regulation.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village Allotments in Runanga Village Settlement, Westland Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of December, 1927.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by section two hundred and twenty of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General 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 Proclamation made under the said Act on the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, and published the New Zealand Gazette on the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto were set apart 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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and acting 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 terms said and conditions are set forth in the Second Schedule hereto; and doth also direct that the said lands shall be divided into village allotments only.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—RUNANGA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

• Weighted with £200, valuation for six-roomed dwelling-house.
  † Weighted with £300, valuation for seven-roomed dwelling-house.