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Official Notices and Circulars. 



[JAN., 



landowners, who work on a commercial basis, for small holdings similar 

 in character to those provided by the County Council. 



In this connection I am to remind the Council that in 1926 the small 

 holdings undertakings will be valued as a whole on the basis of their 

 then rental value. If the Council is not then obtaining rents equal 

 to their full rental value the loss will fall on the Council itself. 



6. A dvances to Settlers, — The^Regulations have now been made by the 

 Treasur^^ and copies are enclosed herewith* with copies of a covering 

 memorandum.! 



1 am, etc., 

 (Signed) Lawrence Weaver, 



Director-General of Land Settlement. 



The following Regulations, dated 8th December, 191 9, have been 

 made by the Treasury under Section 18 of the Land Settlement 

 (Facilities) Act, 191 9 (9 and 10 Geo. 5 Ch. 

 Loans to Tenants 59) : — 



of Small Holdings In pursuance of the powers conferred on 

 under the them by Section 18 of the Land Settlement 



Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919,$ My Lords make the 

 (Facilities) Act, 1919. following Regulations :— 



I. Any application by a tenant or pro* 

 spective tenant of a small holding provided by a County Council for an 

 advance or guarantee of an advance under the above section shall be 

 addressed to the Clerk of the County Council. 



2. Every application'^shall state the purpose or purposes for which 

 the^^advance is required, which must be one or more of the following 

 purposes, namely, the*purchase of live stock, fruit trees, seeds, fertilisers 

 and implements required for the purposes of the holding. The applica- 

 tion shall contain an undertaking to apply the money advanced for the 

 purpose authorised, and that if the money is used for any other purpose 

 the Council may require its]|repayment forthwith. 



3. The applicant shall state in every case the capital in cash or 

 kind, other than the advance, which is or will be available for farming 

 his holding, and whether any part of such capital is or represents bor- 

 rowed money. 



4. A County Council shall limit the sum to be advanced to any 

 applicant to such amount as in the opinion of the Council does not 

 exceed the amount of capital in cash or kind which the applicant is able 

 to provide from other sources, except in any special case where the 

 Council are of opinion that a larger amount might safely be advanced 

 to the tenant, and the previous sanction of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries has been obtained by the Council. 



5. The amount of the advance shall not exceed the sum which the 

 Council consider necessary for the purpose stated in the application, 

 and in no case shall the advance or advances to any one applicant at 

 any time exceed ;^5oo. 



* See below. t Not here printed. 



X See this Jo^iynal, October, 1919, p- 733- 



