G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 19th day of February, 1872.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871," it is, among other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, with the advice of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to set aside out of the waste lands within the Province of Wellington, the Native title of which has been extinguished, or any block or blocks, for the purpose of special settlement, not exceeding in the whole one hundred thousand acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the Governor in Council, anything in the existing regulations for the management or disposal of the waste lands in the Province to the contrary notwithstanding:

And whereas the said Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council as aforesaid, hath proposed to set aside a certain block of land at Sandon, in the said Province, containing five thousand and eight acres two roods and thirty-two perches, or thereabouts, as a special settlement under the said Act for the members of an Association known as the "Hutt Small Farm Association," upon the terms hereinafter mentioned: And whereas the said Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council as aforesaid, hath requested the Governor to sanction the said terms:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby sanction the terms set forth in the Schedule hereto as the terms under which the said proposed special settlement shall be made under the said Act.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

For the Occupation and Purchase of the Block of Land proposed to be set aside for Special Settlement as aforesaid.

Interpretation.

1. In the construction of these terms and conditions, unless the context shall otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—"Association" shall mean the "Hutt Small Farm Association." "Land" shall mean the block of land described in the foregoing Proclamation. "Purchaser" shall mean any members of the Association, or the Trustees thereof, who may purchase any of the land hereby set aside. "The said Act" "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871."

To whom Purchase Money to be Paid.—Limitation of Time.

2. All monies required to be paid by any purchaser of the said land under these terms and conditions, shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, at Wellington, and receipts given by him shall be sufficient evidence of such payments as may be therein expressed. The payment of purchase money, under these terms and conditions, shall not extend beyond a period of three years from the date of the foregoing Proclamation.

Rules of Association so far Applicable.

3. Subject to the foregoing terms and conditions, the Rules of the Association hereinafter set forth shall, so far as applicable, be deemed to regulate the terms on which the special settlements shall be made and occupied under the said Act.

RULES.

1. The object of the Association shall be the establishment of a Small Farm Settlement and Township in the District of Manawatu, in the Province of Wellington.

2. The business of the Association shall be managed by a Committee of seven persons, including Secretary and Treasurer, to be elected by the Shareholders annually, whose duty it shall be to carry out the objects of the Association.

3. No question of vital importance to the Association shall be decided by the Committee, so as to bind the members, unless resolved upon at a general meeting of members, due notice of which shall be given and all questions carried and decided upon by a majority of the members then present shall be binding upon the Association, unless contrary to the rules and law under which the Association shall be formed.

4. The members of the Association shall be males not under eighteen years of age, who shall hold at least one share, and shall undertake to occupy and pay for the land in conformity with these Regulations.

5. Occupation shall be the enclosing of at least five acres of land with a good and substantial fence, and the erection of a tenement the value of which shall be ten pounds, before the end of the second year, and the actual residence of a member himself, or a son of not less than seventeen years of age, during the whole of the third and last year for which the reserve is proclaimed.

6. The settlement shall be divided into allotments of from forty to two hundred acres, according to requirements of shareholders, with a quarter-acre town allotment for each and every forty acres of rural land, together with reserves for public purposes, which will be laid aside by the Government.