May 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 705

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, Manai'a, Opunake, Thames, Wanganui,
Reefton, 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 deter-
mined 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 aggre-
gate. 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