MAY 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 611

SCHEDULE.

Description.

Waihua and Taramarama Districts: Hilly pastoral country. Soil light, overlying a calcareous marl or papa formation. The vegetation consists of fern on the hills and slopes, with grass on some of the hill-tops, and scrub and light bush in the gullies. The land can be brought into good pasture by surface-sowing and subdividing. Distance by road from Clyde, the county-town, thirteen miles. The Wairoa County Council has in hand the formation of a road through these blocks. There is regular steam communication between Napier and Clyde.

Mohaka District: This run is generally of the same description as the above. There are convenient shipping-places at the mouths of the Mohaka and Waikare Rivers. The distance from the sea-coast to this block is ten miles.

Block I., Maungaharuru District: Fern hills and spurs on the western slopes of the Maungaharuru, a limestone range. Situated five miles to the north of the Napier-Taupo coach-road, and forty miles from Napier.

Terms and Conditions.

The leases will be for an absolute term of twenty-one years, renewable for a further term of twenty-one years, in accordance with 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 described 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 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.

Every lessee will have to reside on the land he leases within twelve months from the commencement of his lease, and thereafter for a period of six consecutive years. But the Land Board may relax this condition in the case of any lessee who is actually residing on any freehold or leasehold land of his own which is situate within ten miles of the run leased by him.

For a period of fourteen years from the date of the lease one-fourth of the rents will be handed over to the County Council or Road Board of the district, to be expended in the maintenance or construction of the roads leading to and opening up the land.

A declaration, signed and witnessed by a Justice of the Peace, as required by section 200 of “The Land Act, 1885,” must be attached to the application.

The first half-year’s rent, from the 1st September, 1886, to the 1st March, 1887, together with a fee of £1 1s. for the lease, must be paid on application.

In event of more than one application being received on the same day for the same run, it will be sold by auction, limited to the applicants, at 4 p.m., on the day of the receipt of applications.

Further particulars can be obtained at this office.

Crown Lands to be Leased on the Perpetual-leasing System.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 22nd April, 1886.

IT is notified that the under-mentioned sections are open for a term of thirty years, with the right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years, and that written tenders in sealed covers will be received up to 2 p.m. on Friday, the 28th May, 1886.

Tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on the same day.

Maps, conditions, and tender-forms can be obtained at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, and at the Post Office, Herbertville, Wainui.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

TAUTANE BLOCK.

Description: These sections comprise excellent scrub and bush-clad pastoral country. The formation is a limestone and calcareous marl or papa. The bush contains mixed timbers, generally of a light description on the hills.

Further particulars relating to each section will be found printed on the maps. The main line of road now in course of formation, from the sea-coast at Wainui, connecting with the Napier-Wellington Railway at Tahoraiti, runs through Block VIII., Weber Survey District.

The road has been opened for dray-traffic through the Tautane Block into Block VIII., a distance of seven miles from the Wainui settlement. The shipping-place for the district is Cape Turnagain, where the small coastal steamers call.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS RELATING TO PERPETUAL LEASES.

The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on the day above named, when the highest tenderer, if the tender shall equal the upset annual rental, will be declared the purchaser.

If there be only one tenderer for any allotment, he shall be entitled to the land at the upset rental, notwithstanding that his tender may have been for a higher rental. Any person tendering for more than one section must appear at the Land Board, either in person or by agent authorized in writing, on the day on which tenders are opened.

The number of the section and block, with the name of the district, must be written on the envelope enclosing the tender. The letter, being on Public Service, and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped.

Any person of seventeen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases, the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Napier: Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s. in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same.

Any lessee of the Crown lands who has fulfilled all the conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment of the capital value, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease.

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 640 acres anywhere in the colony.

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;