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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

Leases of Rural Land with Perpetual Right of Renewal,
Auckland Land District.

2,389 Acres in Rangiuru Block for Leasing.—Leases
for Thirty Years.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1885.

WRITTEN tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the
under-mentioned sections, in accordance with the
provisions of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”
Conditions to be observed by Tenderers: The price tendered
must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied
by the statutory declaration required by the Act, together
with six months’ rent at the rate tendered, and the sum of
£1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration, to be lodged
with the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland not later
than 4 o’clock on Wednesday, the 6th May, 1885, and to be
opened by the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland, on
Thursday, the 7th May, 1885, at 2 o’clock p.m., when the
highest tenderer (if the tenders shall equal or exceed the
upset fixed annual rental per acre) will be declared the
lessee.

Forms of tender and declaration can be obtained at any
Crown Lands Office in the colony.

Any person of the age of eighteen years 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 a 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, Auckland.

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 sub-lease 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 any-
where in the colony.

TAURANGA COUNTY.—MAKETU SURVEY DISTRICT.
Rangiuru Block.

Description of Land: Block VII., Section 1, open fern
land, a few acres swamp, soil good, 95 chains frontage to
navigable river (Te Kaituna), old cultivations on river banks;
2, open fern land, soil good, a few acres swamp; 3, open fern
land, soil good, a little tea-tree on section; 4, open fern land,
rather broken, a little swamp; 5 and 6, open fern land, soil
good; 7 and 8, soil good, vegetation fern and tutu, few acres
swamp, half of both sections broken country; 9 and 10, soil
good, vegetation fern and tutu, a little swamp on both
sections, a quarter of Section 10 broken country. Block X.,
Section 1, soil good, vegetation fern and tutu, rather broken
country, a few acres tea-tree and mixed forest; 2, 3, 4, and
5, soil good, vegetation fern and tutu; 6 and 7, soil good,
vegetation fern and tutu, a few acres of each section mixed
bush; 8, soil good, vegetation fern and tutu.

NOTE.—All the above sections are situated near Te Puke
Special Settlement, and are accessible by a formed road.

Lithographs and further particulars can be obtained on
application to the Crown Lands Office, Auckland.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Run for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1885.

I HEREBY give notice that the under-mentioned run
will be submitted to auction, at the Land Office, Christ-
church, on Wednesday, the 6th May, 1885, at 12 o’clock
noon.

The license for the said run shall be for a term of four
years nine months and twenty-five days, terminating the
1st March, 1890, subject to the provisions of “The Land
Act, 1877,” and its amendments.

The purchaser will have to pay, on the fall of the hammer,
fifteen months and twenty-five days’ rent, to the 1st Sep-
tember, 1886, in pursuance of clause B of subsection 3 of
section 16 of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879.”

SCHEDULE.

Plan may be seen at the Land Office, Christchurch.

WALTER KITSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

West Coast Settlement Reserves.

SALE OF LEASES FOR A TERM OF THIRTY YEARS.
Compensation for Improvements up to £5 per Acre will be
allowed at End of Term of Lease.

West Coast Settlement Reserves Office,
New Plymouth, 30th April, 1885.

WRITTEN tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the
under-mentioned sections, in accordance with the
provisions of “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act,
1881,” and the regulations issued thereunder.

The tenders, accompanied by the statutory declaration and
deposit of six months’ rent at the rate tendered, in accord-
ance with the regulations, will be received at my office up to
noon of Monday, the 15th June, 1885, when the highest
tenderer for each lease (if the tenders shall equal or exceed
the upset fixed annual rental per acre) will be declared the
lessee.

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 Offices, New Plymouth, Patea, and
Hawera, or at any of the other Land Offices in the colony;
also at the office of the Collector of Customs, Wanganui, and
at the Post Offices, Manaiia, Opunake, Thames, Wanganui,
Reefton, Westport, Greymouth, Ashburton, and Oamaru, on
and after the 11th proximo.