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Kumara Times, Issue 1383, 8 March 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. *BTANDINO REGULATION 3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL « LEASES UNDER «• THE MINES ACT, 1877." Hercules Robinson, Governor. HEREAS by the fifty-first section of r "The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as " the said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act faom time to time to make, alter amendand rvoke rales and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: and 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 rules and regulations made under the fifty* first and fifty-second sections of the said Aot: 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 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. 6. Objections that the the applicant is notof 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 of 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 Bhall have been lodged twenty-four hours at least before the time appointed for hearing • and the person objecting mußt at the time appointed for hearing urge the objection personally, or by ouhsel or agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing with any application the Warden may require a report or Burvey to be mide 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 decided by the Warden.

GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 13. On issuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to tho Governor a duplicate of Boch certificate, aHd notwithstanding the issue of the same, It shalJ be lawiul 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 snch certificate; and immediately upon each refusal being communicated to the applicant, either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of bnsineßß or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, and the applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver up possession of the said land, and failing his so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Crown lands. CONDITION OV OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to say—1. That no sale or assignment shall bt> made without lioense. 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 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 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 the land is declared by the District gurveyor to be of a greater altitude above jea level than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B» District of , 18 Whereas the application of for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was beard before me on 18 j and whereas J have decided that a lease of acres roads perches should be granted to the said applicant: This i« to certify that the said 1b hereby authorised to take possession of the BBid land, and the same to hold, use, and enjoy, subjects to the tenns and 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 lease when the said is notified fchat snch lease is ready for his acceptance, and will become void if the said is notified that a lease will not be granted to feim. NOT TRANSFERABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June one thonsand P'gkfc hundred Wfid aeve.nty-ntae,3