May 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 629

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 accordance 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, Manaia, Opunake, Thames, Wanganui, Reef ton, Westport, Greymouth, Ashburton, and Oamaru, on and after the 11th proximo.

These sections are part of the block commonly known as the Waihi Block, and are all first-class, open, level lands, situate in the County of Clifton and Provincial District of Taranaki, and are only from one and a half to five miles from the Port of Waitara. Some of the sections are on the Main North Road, and none are more than a mile from it or the inland main road. Not more than 200 acres of this land will be leased to one person.

Attention is specially called to the fact of these being the last of the open lands of any extent likely to be in the market in this district.

These sections form part of the Waihi Block, and are forest land, some very good and some broken.

This block comprises lands belonging to seven distinct grants. Lands being portions of more than one grant will not be included in the same lease. Separate leases will, therefore, be prepared for any lease of two or more sections in different grants.

Other lands to be leased but not included in plan :—

• There are improvements to the value of £20 on this section.
  † Close to the Town of Waitara; open land.

CONDITIONS AS TO OCCUPATION AND IMPROVEMENTS.

The maximum quantity any lessee can hold is 640 acres of rural land of the West Coast Settlement Reserves.

Each lessee shall within two years from the date of his lease bring into cultivation not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him, and within four years of the said date not less than one-fifth of the said land, and within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, shall place on such land substantial improvements of a permanent character to the value of £1 for every acre of such land.

Improvements to be suitable to and consistent with the extent and character of the holdings, and none shall be allowed for in any valuation in excess of £5 for every acre of rural land.

The lease will contain an arbitration clause to enable, at the end of the term, the value of improvements to be determined for which an outgoing lessee should be paid by an incoming lessee. It will also provide that, in the event of there being no accepted tenderer for the new lease, the old lessee shall have the option of accepting a fresh lease for the same period and on the same conditions as his first lease, at a rental to be fixed by arbitration, minus the value of the improvements, which is also to be fixed by arbitration.

CONDITIONS AS TO TENDERS.

Tenderers may offer for any number of sections, but no tender will be accepted for more than 640 acres in the aggregate. Such sections must, however, be contiguous, and not more than 200 acres of the open Waihi land will be let to one person.

After the declaration of tenders any sections not tendered for will be open for application at the upset rent. The first applicant to be declared the lessee, but, if there should be two or more applicants at the same time for any lease, the right to the lease shall be decided by lot.

A deposit of one half-year’s rent must be made at the time of tendering, the amount to be calculated on the highest amount offered by any tenderer for an aggregate area of 640 acres or any less quantity; but no deposit will be required for any quantity of land tendered for beyond the 640 acres.

Coloured lithographic plans of the Waihi Block will be on view in the several Land Offices throughout the colony.

W. RENNELL,
Reserves Trustee.

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

2,688 ACRES IN MOTU BLOCK FOR LEASING.—LEASES FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 30th April, 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 3rd June, 1885, and to be opened by the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland on