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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Sale of Lands in Matamau Village, Hawke’s Bay District.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 28th March, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land in the Matamau Village Settlement will be open for application for selection upon deferred payments, on Thursday, the 29th April, at the Land Office at Napier:—

VILLAGE ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Matamau Village Settlement.

SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Matamau Village Settlement.

No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section.

The prices stated shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

If there should be more than one application for any village allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only; and, if there should be more than one application for any small-farm allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

Each applicant will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Hawke’s Bay Land District one-tenth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the 1st day of July, 1886.

The purchaser of any lands described, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885,” relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Reserve 1769, Chertsey, Provincial District of Canterbury, to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System, under Section 161 of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 15th March, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with the right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years, and that applications will be received on the 20th April, 1886, for the said leases, at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

Maps may be seen and conditions and forms can be obtained at the Crown Lands Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Description: Land of good average quality, in close proximity to Chertsey.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS RELATING TO PERPETUAL LEASES.

Limits of Area for each Lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns, any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown, whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 50 acres anywhere in the colony.

Under section 161 of “The Land Act, 1885,” only one allotment can be held by any one person.

Improvements: Every lessee shall bring into cultivation—

1. Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;
2. Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;
3. Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him;

And shall, within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character on the land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land.

Plans and schedules can be seen at the railway stations and post offices in the Canterbury Provincial District.

Personal Residence: The Land Board will give permission dispensing with the necessity of personal residence for the first two years from the date of the lease.

Every application shall be accompanied by a statutory declaration, the amount of the first six months’ rent, and a fee of 30s.

Should there be more than one application on the same day for the same allotment, the right to occupy shall be determined by lot.

Canterbury Land District.

PART OF RESERVE NO. 91, THIRTY-EIGHT ACRES, SALT-WATER CREEK.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1886.

TENDERS will be received at the Crown Lands Offices at Christchurch and Timaru for the temporary pastoral occupation of the above land, under section 25 of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” up to noon on 4th May, 1886, at the upset annual rental of 10s. per acre.

Plans and particulars may be seen at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Canterbury Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 16th March, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that on and after this date the quarter-acre sections in the undernamed Government ownships are reduced to the following prices:—