1879.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1415

Rakauwahi Block, situated between Hokianga
and the Bay of Islands, containing 1,422 acres.

N.B.—The highest or any tender not necessarily
accepted, and the Waste Lands Board reserves to
itself the right to dispose of any portions of these
blocks during the above term.
Cheque for amount offered to be enclosed with
tender.
Tenders to be addressed, "Waste Lands Board,
Auckland. Tender for Kauri Gum, — Block."

Public Notification.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 20th September, 1879.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in
the Waste Lands Board by "The Land Act,
1877," it is hereby notified that the rural lands men-
tioned in the Schedule hereunder will be open for
selection under the "Homestead System," on Tues-
day, the 28th day of October next.

D. A. TOLE,
Chief Commissioner of Waste
Lands Board.

SCHEDULE.

WANGAROA DISTRICT.
Takou Block—2,900 acres second-class land.
Applications for this land to be made to A.P. Rad-
cliffe, Esq., H.M. Customs, Wangaroa.

BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT.
Okaihu No. 2 Block—Part of 1,000 acres first-
class land. Applications for this land to be made to
Captain Burleigh, Okaihu.

HOKIANGA DISTRICT.
Orira Block—Part of 1,300 acres second-class
land.
Taketahi Block—300 acres second-class land.
Applications for these lands to be made to the
Chairman of the County Council, Hokianga.

WHANGAREI DISTRICT.
Tangihua Survey District—Block III.—2,000
acres second-class land. Applications for this land
to be made to the Chairman of the District Board,
Maungakaramea.

PUHOI DISTRICT.
Makarau Block—Part of 1,000 acres second-class
land.
Mahurangi—Lot 148, 114 acres second-class land.
Applications for these lands to be made to Captain
Krippner, Puhoi.

Forms of application can be obtained and plans of
the lands inspected at this office, and at the residence
of the above-named agents.

"THE LAND ACT, 1877."—HOMESTEAD SYSTEM.
Conditions of Occupation.

1. The area allowed to be selected by each person
   of the age of 18 years or upwards shall be—of first-
   class lands, fifty acres, or of second-class lands,
   seventy-five acres; and for persons under 18 years of
   age, of first-class lands, twenty acres, or of second-
   class lands, thirty acres: Provided that the total
   quantity to be selected by any one family or number
   of persons occupying the one household shall not
   exceed two hundred acres of first-class or three
   hundred acres of second-class lands.

2. Within three months after the selection has
   been approved to the Board, the selector shall com-
   mence to reside on his selection, and shall continue
   to reside continuously thereon for five years from
   the date of such approval as aforesaid.

3. Within eighteen months after such approval the
   selector shall erect on his selection a permanent
   dwellinghouse of wood or other materials, which
   shall be specified in regulations to be issued in refer-
   ence to homestead-system selections.

4. In each year there shall be brought under culti-
   vation one-fifteenth of the area of such selection if
   open land, and one-twenty-fifth if bush land, so that
   at the end of the term of five years one-third of the
   selection of open land, or one-fifth of bush land,
   shall be under cultivation.

5. Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipu-
   lations shall render the selection void, and the right
   of the selector therein and to all improvements there-
   on shall be forfeited.

6. At the end of the said period of five years a
   grant or grants shall issue for the lands selected:
   Provided the selector shall not have forfeited his
   right thereto in manner aforesaid.

SURVEY REGULATIONS.

1. All surveys shall be made by surveyors author-
   ized by the Surveyor-General, and in accordance with
   instructions to settlement surveyors issued or which
   may be issued by him.

2. There shall be paid for the survey of any area—
   Not exceeding 30 acres 5 0 0
   Exceeding 30 and up to 50 acres 0 3 0 per acre
   ” 50 ” 100 ” 0 2 6 ”
   ” 100 ” 200 ” 0 2 0 per acre,
   but not
   less than
   £12 10s.
   ” 200 ” 300 ” 0 1 8 per acre,
   but not
   less than
   £20.

3. Whenever two or more sections are surveyed
   together by the same surveyor, one-third of the above
   rates shall be deducted for all areas above fifty acres;
   and whenever also more than one-half the length of
   the boundary lines shall run through vegetation less
   than six feet high, one-third of the Schedule rates
   shall be deducted.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regulations
made under that Act for the granting of leases for
gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Naseby on or
before the 17th day of October, 1879.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Naseby.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: The Enterprise Water-Race Company
(Registered). Style under which it is intended to
conduct the business: "The Enterprise Water-Race
Company (Registered)." Four acres, in the Mount
Ida Mining District, between Coal Pit and Wet
Gullies.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this
twenty-ninth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)