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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of
Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 16th February, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court,
to be held at Kapanga, in the District of Coro-
mandel, on the 1st day of April, 1886, will be heard the ap-
plications of the persons whose names appear in the first
solumn for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised
in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of
which appear in the second column, situate in the districts
named in the third column of the Schedule hereto.

And, in pursuance of the provisions of section 7 of “The
Native Land Division Act, 1882,” all persons having in their
possession any original grant or other instrument of title
relating to any of the lands aforesaid are hereby ordered to
produce the same at the said sitting of the Court.

EDWD. HAMMOND,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Crown Lands Notices.

Homestead Lands open for Selection.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 28th January, 1886.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in the
Auckland Land Board by “The Land Act, 1885,” it
is hereby notified that the second-class rural lands men-
tioned in the Schedule hereunder will be open for selection,
under the homestead system, on Tuesday, the 9th March
next.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

WHANGAREI COUNTY.

Mareretu 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-pay-
   ment or perpetual-lease systems, or who is the owner of any
   freehold land, shall be eligible to select land under the home-
   stead 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 quan-
   tity 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 sur-
   veys 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 regula-
   tions to be issued in reference to homestead-system selec-
   tions.

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 afore-
   said.

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 inclu-
sive, 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 Sur-
veyor-General, and in accordance with instructions to Settle-
ment 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.