Feb. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 243

SCHEDULE.

WHANGAREI COUNTY.

MAREKETU Block, 1,580 acres. Applications to be made to George Cliff, Esq., Mareretu.

Opuawhanga Block, 620 acres. Applications to be made to J. J. Wilson, Esq., J.P., Whangarei.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.

Punakitere Block, 800 acres. Applications to be made to Robert Cochrane, Esq., Chairman, Hokianga County Council, Herd's Point.

Forms of application can be obtained, and plans of the lands inspected, at this office and at the residences of the agents above named.

CONDITIONS.

1. No person who has once selected land on the homestead system, or selected or obtained land under the deferred-payment or perpetual-lease systems, or who is the owner of any freehold land, shall be eligible to select land under the homestead system.

2. The area allowed to be selected by each person of the age of eighteen years or upwards shall be, of first-class lands 50 acres, or of second-class lands 75 acres; and for persons under eighteen years of age, of first-class lands 20 acres, or of second-class lands 30 acres; provided that the total quantity to be selected by any one family, or number of persons occupying the one household, shall not exceed 200 acres of first-class or 300 acres of second-class lands.

3. Selectors under this system shall pay the costs of surveys of the lands selected.

4. Within six months, and twelve months in the case of bush lands, after the selection has been approved by the Board, the selector shall commence to reside on his selection, and shall reside continuously thereon for five years from the date of approval as aforesaid.

5. Within eighteen months after such approval the selector shall erect on his selection a permanent dwelling-house of wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to homestead-system selections.

6. In each year there shall be brought under cultivation one-fifteenth of the area of such selection if open land, and one-twenty-fifth if bush land, so that at the end of the term of five years one-third of the selection if open land, or one-fifth if bush land, shall be under cultivation.

7. Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall render the selection void, and the right of the selector therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited.

8. At the end of the said period of five years a grant or grants shall issue for the lands selected, provided the selector shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid.

Survey Regulations.

Under 30 acres, £6. From 30 to 50 acres inclusive, 3s. 6d. per acre, but not less than £6. From 50 to 100 acres inclusive, 3s. per acre, but not less than £8 15s. From 100 to 200 acres inclusive, 2s. 6d. per acre, but not less than £15. From 200 to 300 acres inclusive, 2s. per acre, but not less than £25.

Surveys shall be made by surveyors authorized by the Surveyor-General, and in accordance with instructions to Settlement Surveyors issued or which may be issued by him; and these rates further imply that all boundary-lines are to be cut and marked on the ground.

Tenders for License to occupy, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Land Office,
Christchurch, 21st January, 1886.

TENDERS for the license for the temporary pastoral occupation of Reserve No. 1613, containing 2 acres, Town of Ashburton, will be received at the Land Office, Christchurch, until Monday, the 1st March, at 12 o'clock noon, at the upset annual rental of £4.

The license will be issued subject to the conditions of section 25 of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881."

Plan and particulars may be seen at the Land Office, Christchurch. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Tenders to be indorsed, "Temporary Occupation of Reserve 1613."

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land for Sale by Auction, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 10th December, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned section of rural land will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Christchurch, at noon, on Wednesday, the 24th March, 1886:—

Plan may be seen at the Land Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Town and Suburban Leaseholds, Rotorua, and Town Leaseholds near the Celebrated Thermal Springs of Whakarewarewa, Auckland District.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 27th January, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the town and suburban lands described in the Schedule hereunder will, in pursuance of "The Thermal-Springs District Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1883," be offered for lease by public auction, for the term of ninety-nine years, at this office, on Wednesday, the 3rd March next, at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.