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Kumara Times, Issue 1377, 1 March 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATION 3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877." HERCULES ROPINSON, GOVERNOR. WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of if. "The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as " the said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, Bubject' to the provisions of the Baid Act f torn time to time to make, alter amend* and rvoke role* and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: and Vhereaß by the fifty-third section of the said Act It is enacted that the rules and regulations contained in the Appendices to the said Aet shall be deemed to be the first rales and regulations made under the fiftyfirst and fifty-second seotioßS of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the regulations respecting agricultual leases under Appendix B to the said Act,, and numbered three, five, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen, should be amended: Nov, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colonv of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulations under. Appendix B particularly referred to above shall be and are hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:— ' ~' WHO' MAY APPLY. 3. Every application must be made by the applicant in person ; and the Warden shall not 'entertain any application unless he satisfied that the person is of the full age of twenty-one years, and legally capable of being bound by the contract into which it i thereby proposed to enter, and is not in respect of the land applied for, or in respect of any part: thereof, the agent or servant of or a trustee for any other person. 5. Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one years, of that he is in respect of the land applied for the agent or servant of or the trustee for any other person, or that the whole or any portion ot the land applied for is claimed or owned by any other person than the applicant, or is in the whole or in part auriferous, or is or ir likely to be required for any public purpose, must be made in writing to the' Warden, and lodged at the office at which the application shall have been lodged twenty-four hours at least before the time appointed for hearing; and the person objecting must at the time appointed for hearing urge the objection personally, or by ounsel or agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing with any application the Warden may require a report or survey to be mvle by the District Surveyor, and in such case the cost of uuch survey or report shall be paid in advance to the Receiver of Gold Revenue either by the hiector, or partly by both, bb may be decided by the Warden. GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 13. On issuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to tho Goveruor a duplicate of snob certificate, and nctwitbGovernor within sixty day from the date thereof to refuse to grant it the applicant a lease of the land referred to in. such certificate; and immediately upon svch refusal being communicated to tbe applicant, either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of bnsiness or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall beoome and be absolutely void, and the applicant Bhajl forthwith quit and deliver up possession of the said laud, and failing his gp doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Crown lands. CONDITION OK OCCUPATION. J2. Every certificate and lease shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to say— , • ,-,. .. | J. That no sale or assignment shall be. made without license. 2. That "not less than one-eighth of the whole area shall be cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, within twelve months after the commencement of the, or onesfourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. $. That the lessee shall, within two years after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelling-Louse of a value of not less than fifty pounds sterling, and that within the same Erlod he Bhall begin to reside on the id, and continue so to do until the id becomes freehold, ' building and residence may be dispense with in the case of. an applicant who resides during the currency of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be dispensed with in all cases where the major part of tiie land is declared bj the District Surveyor to be pf a greater altitude above jea leyel than two thousand feet! SCHEDULE B. district of , I{J Whereas the application of for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was heard before me on }8 \ and whereas I have decided that a lease of acres rpads perches should be granted to the said applicant: This is to certify that the said is hereby authorised to take possession of the said land, and the same to hold, use, and f d joy, subjects tp the terms aad conditions specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations in fprce at the date of the issue bereof. Warden, $.8..- This certificate is tp be exchanged ,|or a I«ase when the said is notiti d that such lease is ready for bin a- ceptance, and will become void if the saitf is notified that a lease will not be granted to feim. HQT TRANSFERABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June one « e Y?aty-u^e,j