Dec. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1659

Sale of Forfeited Deferred-payment Sections.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 26th November, 1884.

THE under-mentioned deferred-payment sections, having been forfeited for breach of conditions, will be offered for sale by public auction, the improvements for cash, and the land on deferred-payments, in terms of section 71 of “The Land Act, 1877,” at the Land Office, New Plymouth, on Saturday, the 10th January, 1885, at 10.30 a.m. :—

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Forfeited Deferred-payment Section, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 1st December, 1884.

UNDER section 71 of “The Land Act, 1877,” and section 16 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1884,” the under-mentioned forfeited deferred-payment section, with improvements thereon, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, at noon on Tuesday, the 6th January, 1885, the improvements for cash, and the land on deferred payments :—

PELORUS SOUND, WET INLET.

A deposit of 5 per cent. on the price of the land, and the full amount for improvements, must be paid at the auction.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands by Auction, Marlborough.

Crown Lands Office,
Blenheim, 29th November, 1884.

THE Land Board of the Marlborough Land District hereby notifies that at noon, on Tuesday, the 6th January, 1885, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, the under-mentioned sections of suburban, rural, and pasture land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash, and a license of the run under mentioned will also be offered by public auction, at the upset prices and rent respectively hereinafter set forth :—

TO BE SOLD FOR CASH.

KAIKOURA SUBURBAN.

RURAL LAND.—KAITUNA VALLEY.
Onamalutu Survey District.

| IV. | 4 | 48 0 22 | 54 0 0 | .. |

PASTURE LAND.

| IV. | 5 | 51 0 11 | 45 0 0 | 6 0 0* |
| " | 6 | 80 1 16 | 48 0 0 | .. |

KENEPURU SOUND.
Gore Survey District.

| VI. | 2 | 122 1 0 | 61 2 6 | 9 0 0* |

*If any other person than applicant becomes the purchaser, the cost of survey must be paid at the auction by the purchaser, to be handed to applicant.

Twenty-five per cent. of the purchase-money must be paid at auction, the balance and the Crown-grant fee within one month, or the money paid at auction will be forfeited.

RUN TO BE LET UNDER LICENSE UNDER “THE LAND ACT, 1877,” AND AMENDMENTS THEREOF, 1879, 1882, AND 1884.

The Onamalutu Run No. 2, situate in the Onamalutu Survey District; approximate area, 210 acres; upset annual rent, £1; term of license, ten years.

There must be paid, at auction, rent, at the rate of the highest price bid, from date of auction to the 1st March, 1885, and £3 for the license.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands to be leased, Forty-Mile Bush District, Wairarapa.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal.

Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited, in accordance with “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

The price tendered must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with six months’ rent at the rate tendered, and a fee of £1 10s. for lease and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, not later than 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884.

The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December (the following day), at 10 o’clock a.m., when the highest tenderer, if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either in person or by an agent authorized in writing, on the day on which the tenders are opened.

Plans and schedules of the sections, and copies of the regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained at the District Land Office, Wellington; at any of the other Land Offices in the colony; and may also be seen at the Railway Stations and Post Offices in the Wellington Provincial District.

The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter being on “Public Service only,” and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of postage; neither does the declaration require to be stamped.

Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington: Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s. in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same.

Any lessee who has fulfilled all conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment of the price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease.

NOTE.—Limits of area for each lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in the colony.

The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer’s Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer’s Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera,