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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

place of business or abode, the certificate and any
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.

Rent.

15. Rent at the rate of three shillings per acre per
    annum shall be payable half-yearly during the term;
    and at the time of the execution of the lease rent
    shall be paid up to the first day of January or the
    first day of July, as the case may be, from the date
    up to which payment shall then last have been made;
    and thereafter the rent shall be payable by equal
    half-yearly payments in advance, on the first day of
    January and the first day of July in every year; and
    the payment hereinbefore required at the time of
    granting a certificate shall be deemed to include
    payment of rent for the first six months of the term,
    and for the purpose of computing rent every fractional
    part of an acre shall be considered as an acre, and
    every fractional part of a month shall be considered
    a month, and shall be respectively charged for ac-
    cordingly.

Conditions of Occupation.

18. Every certificate and lease shall be subject to
    the conditions following, that is to say,-

19. That no sale or assignment shall be made with-
    out license.

20. 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 term, or one-fourth of the whole area
    substantially fenced within the same time.

21. 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.

Buildings and residence may be dispensed 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 Surveyor to be of a greater
altitude above sea level than two thousand feet.

SCHEDULE B.

District of ,18

WHEREAS the application of for an agricultural lease
of Crown lands, situated at , was heard before me on
of acres , 18 ; and whereas I have decided that a lease!
roods perches should be granted
to the said applicant: This is to certify that the said
is hereby authorized to take possession of the said land, and the
same to hold, use, and enjoy, subject to the terms and condi-
tions 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 that such lease is ready for his accept-
ance, and will become void if the said is notified that a
lease will not be granted to him.

Not Transferable.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this eleventh day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

J. BALLANCE,

Warrant giving the Waimate Railway Company Per-
mission to use Crown Lands and Public Reserves
vested in the Crown, and to construct the Railway
through such Public Reserves.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS the Waimate Railway Company
(Limited) is a company under and within
the meaning of "The District Railways Act, 1877,"
formed for, amongst other purposes, the purpose of
constructing a railway under the said Act from the
Waimate Branch Railway, in the Provincial District
of Canterbury, to a terminus in Section number
eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty-four,
near Pudding Hill, in the Provincial District of Can-
terbury: And whereas the said Company, with a
view to obtain the Governor's approval of the con-
struction of the said railway, deposited at the Public
Works Office, Dunedin, a plan showing, as prescribed
by the said Act, the middle line and direction of the
said railway, and the limits of deviation in respect
thereof: And whereas the Governor approved of
the construction of the said railway, and notice of
such approval was gazetted in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 24, of the twenty-seventh day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine:
And whereas the Governor is desirous of exercising,
on behalf of the said Company, the powers and
authorities conferred on him by the thirty-second
and thirty-third sections of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred as aforesaid, hereby give to
the said Company exclusive permission to use such
portions of the land required for the purposes of the
said railway within the limits of deviation shown on
the said deposited plan as may be now vested in the
Crown, or as may be subject to any Waste Lands
Act in force in that part of the colony where the
said railway is to be constructed, including such
portions of the land required as aforesaid as are held
under lease or license for pastoral purposes; and
do hereby permit such part or parts of the said rail-
way as may intersect public reserves vested in Her
Majesty the Queen to be constructed on or through
such public reserves.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twelfth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

J. T. FISHER,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

Consent in terms of Section 61 of "The District Rail-
ways Act, 1877," re Waimate Railway Company
(Limited.)

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS the construction of a railway from the
Waimate Branch Railway, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, to a terminus in Section
number eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty-
four, near Pudding Hill, in the Provincial District
of Canterbury, under "The District Railways Act,
1877," and "The District Railways Act 1877 Amend-
ment Act, 1878," by the Waimate Railway Company
(Limited), (a company within the meaning of the
aforesaid Acts), has been duly approved by the
Governor, as prescribed by the said Acts: And
whereas the said Company proposes to raise and
borrow under the provisions of the said Acts the
sum of sixty-nine thousand pounds (£69,000), pay-
able on the first day of June, one thousand nine