New Zealand Gazette – 1886 – No. 1

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✨ Land Leasing and Auction Notices



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1]

AUTHORITY TO ACT AS AGENT.

. This authority to be filled up, then torn off, and sent to agent of tenderer if unable to appear.

I HEREBY authorize to represent me at the Land Board on day of ___, 188__, when my tender for land on perpetual leasing is advertised to be opened, to make any selection of section or sections for me, to make all necessary payments on my behalf, and to receive and give effectual receipts for any deposits returnable to me.

Dated this day of , 188__.

(Name.)
(Address.)

[Form of Cover.]
On Public Service only.

TENDER FOR LAND UNDER THE PERPETUAL-LEASING SYSTEM.

Section. Block. District.
To the
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Napier.

[Form of Declaration.]

I, A.B., of [Insert place of abode and occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare—

  1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.
  2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” am tendering for the purchase [or is desirous of becoming the transferee or sublessee] of a lease [Here specify land].
  3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and for the purposes of cultivation, and not, directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.
  4. That, including the said lands, I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole six hundred and forty acres.
  5. That I have not, within seven years from the date hereof, surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal of the lands for a lease whereof I am now tendering.
    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.”

A.B.

Declared at , this day of _, 18_,
before me— , Justice of the Peace.

Small Grazing Runs, Wanganui District, Provincial District of Wellington.

KAREWAREWA, PARATIEKE, AND HEAO BLOCKS.
Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 9th December, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885,” Part VII., that leases of the runs enumerated hereunder will be submitted to public auction, at the Masonic Hall, Wanganui, on Tuesday, the 12th January, 1886, at the upset rental per acre stated opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.

Section. Block. Survey District. Area. Upset Rent per Acre. Remarks.
A. R. P.
1 VIII. Waipakura 405 2 0 6d. Rough, hilly country, covered with manuka, tawai, tawhero, hinau, rewarewa, rimu, &c.; the soil varies from poor to good; water is generally available; and a good horse-road has been formed partly through the block. Distance from Wanganui, by Field’s Murimotu Road, about eighteen miles.
2 " " 412 2 0 6d.
3 " " 418 0 22 6d.
4 " " 628 0 0 6d.
5 " " 640 0 0 8½d.
1 V. Mangawhero 550 0 0 6d.
2 " " 566 0 0 6d.
11 VI. Mangawhero 221 1 24 9d. Undulating and hilly country, with occasional open flats on the Mangawhero River, covered generally with scrub and light bush on the hills, and with heavier timber in the gullies. The scrub consists of manuka, koromiko, mahoe, &c.; the larger trees comprise matai, kahikatea, hinau, maire, &c. The block is fairly well watered; the soil varies from fair to excellent; it has been well opened up by horse-roads, and is distant from Wanganui about twenty-three miles by Field’s Murimotu Road.
12 " " 499 3 24 6d.
13 " " 341 0 39 6d.
14 X. " 89 1 28 9d.
15 " " 156 1 24 6d.
16 " " 229 2 0 7½d.
18 " " 628 3 19 6d.
19 " " 299 3 16 6d.
20 IX. " 312 0 16 1s.
21, part 1 " " 255 1 29 1s.
1 VII. Mangawhero 1,985 1 0 6d. Rough, hilly, country, generally covered with light bush and scrub, with some patches of fern-land on the Wangaehu, at the southern end. The larger trees comprise rimu, matai, kahikatea, and a few totara. The southern end of the block is accessible from Hales’s Murimotu Road, and the northern part through the Paratieke Block; the distance from Wanganui being about twenty-five miles.
2 " " 605 0 0 6d.
4 " " 761 2 16 6d.
8 XIV. " 716 2 0 6d.
9 " " 927 0 0 6d.*
  • £500 for improvements to be paid by lessee.

The leases will be for an absolute term of twenty-one years, renewable for a further term of twenty-one years, in terms of section 209 of “The Land Act, 1885.”
Improvements equal in value to one year’s rent must be effected in each year for the first two years; and before the end of the sixth year an additional amount, equal to two years’ rent, must also be expended.
Valuations for permanent improvements, as prescribed in sections 210 and 214 of “The Land Act, 1885,” will be paid at the expiry of the leases to the outgoing tenants.
No person can take up more than one run. No person who owns freehold land, or land under lease or license from the Crown which in all would exceed 6,000 acres, or who is incapable of making the declaration prescribed by section 200 of “The Land Act, 1885,” can become a lessee.

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



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