6. That I am at the present time the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, of only acres anywhere in the Colony of New Zealand.
   And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

Declared at , this day
of , 188 , before me,
Justice of the Peace.

[Form of Cover.]
On Public Service only. [Free.
Tender for Land under the Perpetual-leasing System.
Section. Block. District.
To the
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

• These sections are not shown upon this plan.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land for Sale, on Deferred Payments, in the Forty-Mile Bush District, Wairarapa, in the Mangahao, Mangaone, and Kopuaranga Survey Districts.

ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that the sections of land as per Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale, on deferred payments, by application at the Land Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 2nd June, 1885, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. If two or more applicants apply to purchase the same section, an auction will be held between them, at the Institute, Masterton, on Thursday, the 4th June, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

For the convenience of deferred-payment selectors resident in the Wairarapa District, a Government officer will be in attendance at the Institute, Masterton, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 2nd June, to receive applications.

SCHEDULE.

LAND ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.--RESIDENCE NOT COMPULSORY.

Terms of Payment: With the applications for deferred-payment sections one-twentieth of the upset price must be paid in cash, or by bank draft, or marked cheque; the balance of the purchase-money in half-yearly instalments extending over ten years.

The sections comprised in the above Schedules are situated near Pahiataua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer's Rock, near Dreyerton, and some of them front upon or adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through, or leading to, the sections at Dreyer's Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiataua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-five miles, and forty miles.

The railway is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton.

The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, and kahikatea; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, clay, marl, sandstone, &c.

The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the area; it is well watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable, the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes.

Maps, schedules, and application forms can be obtained at the Land Office, Wellington; at the Post Offices, Featherston, Greytown, Masterton, Woodville, Palmerston North, Foxton, and Wanganui; and at the various Crown Land Offices throughout the colony.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.