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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

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 Thurs-
day, 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 deter-
mined 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 pay-
ment 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 becom-
ing 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 com-
prised 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
townships are reduced to the following prices:—