"GOVERNMENT LOANS TO LOCAL BODIES ACT, 1891" (REPORTS OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL UNDER SECTION 3 AND REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1899 Session I, C-07a

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1899. NEW ZEALAND.

"GOVERNMENT LOANS TO LOCAL BODIES ACT, 1891" (REPORTS OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL UNDER SECTION 3 AND REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE).

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the Bth August, 1599. Ordered " That there be laid before this House a return setting out the reports of the Surveyor-General under section 3 of ''The Government Loans to Looal Bodies Act, 1891,' together with the regulations under seotion 4 of such Act, in respect of the several settlement blocks wholly or in part sitoale within tire Patea electorate."— {Mr. G. Hutchison.) '

Return setting out Reports of the Surveyor-General in respect of the Several Settlement Blocks wholly or in part situate within the Patea Electorate.

Year. Name of Block. Area. Surve i Valuation! of Block. ] yor-General's Report. Works Estimated Cost " ' to be borrowed. 1891-92 Mangainingi W aim arin o Acres. 6,000 20,000 £ 9,040 16,880 Roads £ 4,286 7,837 1892-93 Kaimanuka 9,987 5,350 2,665 1893-94 Omahine, Block I. Opaku-Kapara ... 455 18,620 . 341 10,405 i 114 2,793 1894-95 Kaitangiwhenua Special Settlement Momohaki Village Settlement Palmerston North Knights of Labour Pohonuiatane Sommerville Wanganui ... ... . ••• 11,000 824 10,995 28,000 8,i566 6,222 6,600 6,311 12,222 28,000 9,085 . 6,046 i 1,375 1,360 2,749 600 2,142 1,556 I 1895-96 Clifton No. 1 ... Kaitangiwhenua No. 2 ... .:. Kaitieke Manganui and Ruapehu ... Rangiwhakaoma 4,650 46,045 45,500 7,350 13,650 4,081 27,627 41,700 6,337 5,487 I I 1,163 5,765 11,375 1,838 1,707 ' I 1896-97 Gladstone Rawhitiroa Te Ngaue Whenuakura 7,597 32,746 1,470 11,000 5,822 8,186 1,286 6,600 I I I 1,899 2,-046 367 1,338 [ 1897-98 Moeawatea Mokotuku, Block III. Marton No. 3 ... 11,000 1,550 8,816 6,243 1,768 7,788 1,560 388 2,204 16th An ;ust, 1899. A. Babbon, UnderSecretary.

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Regulations under "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1891." ONSLOW, Governor. OBDEE IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of February, 1892. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. In pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1891," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations under and for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say : — 1. These regulations shall come into force on the date when the same shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette. 2. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context, — " The Minister " means the Minister of Lands : " The said Act" means " The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1891 " : " Proclamation " means a Proclamation setting apart a block of land for settlement under section 2 of the said Act: " The block " means a block of land set apart for settlement by " Proclamation " : " Beceiver " means the Eeceiver of Land Eevenue for the district in which the block is situated. 3. For the purposes of 'these regulations, the Surveyor-General shall prepare a schedule showing the value of each and every section of land in the block, and shall on the basis of such valuation divide and apportion among all the sections in the block the amount issued and applied by the Colonial Treasurer under the said Act for roads or bridges in or leading to the block ; and the amount so apportioned shall be a charge on the proceeds arising from the sale or lease of each • section in the block in the proportion hereinafter appearing, and the amount so apportioned shall be conclusive. The Surveyor-General shall forward to the Treasury and Audit Office a copy of the schedule above referred to. 4. The proportion mentioned in the last foregoing section hereof as applied to the various tenures of land shall be as follows :— (a.) In respect of lands sold for cash, the proportion shall be such a portion of the purchasemoney as will refund in one sum the whole amount apportioned as aforesaid against the land so sold, together with 5 per centum per annum added thereto, calculated from the date of the issue to the repayment thereof. (b.) In respect of land sold on deferred payments,- — (1.) When the term is five years, there shall be set apart from each half-yearly payment made by the purchaser a sum equal to per cent, of the amount of expenditure apportioned against such land as aforesaid : (2) When the term is ten years, there shall be set apart from each half-yearly payment made by the purchaser a sum equal to 6-J per cent, of the amount of expenditure apportioned as aforesaid : (3.) When the term is fourteen years, there shall be set apart from each half-yearly payment made by the purchaser a sum equal to 5 per cent, of the amount of expenditure apportioned as aforesaid. In case of the extension of tenure from ten to fourteen years, the proportions to be repaid shall be treated in the same manner as are instalments payable on account of the freehold by section 20 of " The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887." (c.) In respect of lands let on perpetual lease, there shall be set apart, for a period of twentysix years, from each half-yearly payment made by the lessee a sum equal" to 3-| per cent, of the amount of expenditure apportioned against such land as aforesaid. (d.) In respect of land let as a small grazing-run, there shall be set apart, for a period of twenty-one years, from each half-yearly payment made by the lessee a sum equal to 4 per cent, of the amount of expenditure apportioned against such land as aforesaid. 5. Arrears of interest shall be added to the principal sum advanced upon eaclusection. 6. The Eeceiver shall keep proper accounts in respect of each section of land to which these regulations apply, and shall, on receipt of any moneys for or .on account of such section of land, enter the proportionate part of such moneys as defined by section 4 of these regulations to the credit of the " Government Loans to Local Bodies Account " in the respective cash-book accounting for the particular class of land sold or otherwise disposed of. 7. In the event of the tenure of any section of land to which these regulations apply beingexchanged by the holder for another tenure, as provided by "The Laud Act, 1885," and its amendments, the amount of the proportion under section 4 of these regulations due at the time shall be capitalised, and the Eeceiver shall set apart such proportion of the capital value of the land in lieu of the previous apportionment as the Survey or-General, with the approval of the Minister, may direct as sufficient to refund the expenditure as required by these regulations. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations under " The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1891." GLASGOW, Governor. OEDEE IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, 1893. Present: The Honoukable Sic P. A. Buckley, K.C.M.G., pbesiding in Council. In pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of " The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1891 " (hereinafter termed " the said Act "), His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following additional regulations under and for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say : — In respect of lands let on lease in perpetuity, and in respect of lands let for occupation with*, right of purchase, respectively, there shall be set apart from each half-yearly payment made by the lessee, for a period of twenty-six years, a sum equal to 3J per cent, of the amount of expenditure respectively apportioned against such lands in the manner set forth in the regulations of the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, hereinafter mentioned. In case of purchase within the period of twenty-five years, the then value of the balance of the half-yearly payment, reckoned at 5 per cent, interest, shall be set apart; and, in case'of extension as a lease in perpetuity, the half-yearly payment shall continue as under that system. And it is hereby declared that the foregoing regulations shall be read and construed as part of the regulations made under the said Act on the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and published in the..New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council. Approximate Cost of Pa/per. —Preparation, not given printing (1.375 copies), £2 4s. 6d.

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