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Kumara Times, Issue 1381, 5 March 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. BTANDINO REGULATIONS RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER •• THE MUSES ACT, 1877." HERCULES ROPINSON, GOVERNOR. HEREAS by the fifty-firßt section of "The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as "the said Act"), it ia enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act tiom time to time to make, alter amend* and rvoke rales and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: ana whereas 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 sectloHS 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: Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulations under Appendix B particularly re* ferred to above shall be and are hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lies 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 reßpect 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 is 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 mode by the District Surveyor, and in such case the cost of such survey or report shall be paid in advance to the Receiver of Gold Revenue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, as may be deoided by the Warden. GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RB SERVED. 13. On isßuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to the Governor a duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the issue of the same, it shall be lawful for the Governor 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 sich refusal being communicated to the 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 Bhall become and be absolutely void, and the applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver ■p possession of the Baid land, and failing bis so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Crown lands. CONDITION O* OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to say—1. That no sale or assignment shall be made without license. 2. That not less than one-eighth of the whole area Bhall be cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, within twelve months after the commencement of the, or one-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. 2. That the lessee shall, within two years after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelling-house of a value of not less than fifty pounds sterling, and that within the same period he shall begin to reside on the land, and continue so to do until the land becomes freehold. Building and residence may be dispense with in the case of an applicant who resides during the currenoy 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 the land is declared by the District Surveyor to be of a greater altitude above sea level than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B. District ot ,18 Whereas the application of for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was heard before me on 18 ; and whereas I have deoided that a lease of acres roads 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 enjoy, subjects to the terms aad conditions specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations in force at the date of the Issue hereof. Warden, N.B.—This certificate is to be exchanged for a lftase when the said is notified that snch lease is ready for his a< ceptanoe, and will become void if the said is notified that a lease will not be granted to him. NOT TRANSFERABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June one thousand hundred a&d seventy-nine. J