The New Zealand Official Year-book, Volum 12Government Printer, 1903 |
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The New Zealand Official Year-book, Volum 17 New Zealand. Department of Statistics Visualització completa - 1908 |
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20 per cent 31st March acres ad valorem agricultural amount April Auckland Australia average Board Borough bushels butter Canterbury capital value Census Chief Christchurch Clutha coal coast colony Crown lands dairy deaths Debentures Decrease diseases Dunedin Electoral expenditure exports factories females forest gallon Government Greymouth Harbour Hawera Hawke's Bay head Hokitika imports increase industry Invercargill June labour Lake lease licenses loan machinery males manufactures Maoris Marlborough ments Middle Island miles Native Nelson North Island number of persons Oamaru Office Otago paid pastoral pension population Port produce proportion Provincial District quantity railway registered revenue River Road District Rotorua schools settlement sheep South Wales Southland steamers Stewart Island Taranaki Taupo Timaru timber tons total number Total of county town Transhipments Unenumerated Unimproved Value Valley valorem Value of Land vessels Victoria Waikato Waipawa Wanganui Wellington West Westland Whangarei Zealand
Passatges populars
Pàgina 86 - No allowance, beyond 16'5 shall be made for the underproof of any spirit of a less strength than 16 '5 underproof. Case Spirits : Contents of two, three, four, or five gallons shall be charged : Two gallons and under as two gallons. Over two gallons and not exceeding three as three gallons. Over three gallons and not exceeding four as four gallons.
Pàgina 18 - The Electoral Act Amendment Act, 1896," and residence alone now entitles a man or woman to have his or her name placed upon an electoral roll. For Maori representation every adult Maori resident in the district can vote, and no registration is required. There are four Maori electoral districts. For local bodies the qualification is a property or residential one. Women can vote as well as men.
Pàgina 179 - Husband. — Adultery, provided that at the time of the institution of the suit the husband is domiciled in New South Wales ; desertion for not less than three years ; habitual drunkenness for a similar period...
Pàgina 557 - ... rent due in advance on the 1st day of January or July following the selection. If the land is unsurveyed, the cost of survey is to be deposited, and is credited to the selector as so much rent paid...
Pàgina 579 - Colony; and also that, during the twelve years immediately preceding such date he has not been imprisoned for four months or on four occasions for any offence punishable by imprisonment for twelve months or upwards, and dishonouring him in the public estimation...
Pàgina 560 - ... in area, exclusive of the small grazing run applied for, may be a selector under this system and only one small grazing run can be held by any one person. The lease entitles the holder to the grazing rights, and to the cultivation of any part of the run, and to the reservation of 150 acres round his homestead through which no road may be taken ; but the runs are subject to the mining laws. Residence is compulsory, if bush or swamp land, within three years; if open, within one year ; and must...
Pàgina 550 - Zealand land system, is a further application of the principle of " the land for the people," viz., the restriction in area which any man may hold. This subject has been forced upon the attention of the Legislature by defects in former systems, under which one individual with means at his command could appropriate large areas, to the exclusion of his less wealthy fellow settler.
Pàgina 626 - Rarotonga is the most fertile and valuable of the Cook group, and it has the largest population. The island has been exceptionally favoured by nature, not only with delightful scenic attractions, but also with a remarkably rich and product!
Pàgina 17 - Council and of the Superintendent. The Superintendent was chosen by the whole body of electors of the province ; each member of the Provincial Council by the electors of a district. The Provincial Governments, afterwards increased to nine, remained as integral parts of the Constitution of the colony until the 1st November, 1876, when they were abolished by an Act of the General Assembly, that body having been vested with the power of altering the Constitution Act. On the same day an Act of the General...
Pàgina 579 - ... years ; or if a wife, deserted her husband or such of her children as were under age without cause.