MAY 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

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 sand 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 Hawke's Bay 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.

Sale of Town, Suburban, and Rural Lands, District of Auckland.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 15th April, 1886.

I HEREBY notify that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Thursday, the 27th May, 1886, at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

MANGONUI COUNTY.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.
Suburbs of Hokianga.

| 53 | 1 2 16 | 4 16 0 |
| 54 | 0 3 0 | 2 5 0 |
| 55 | 0 2 29 | 2 1 0 |
| 56 | 1 0 32 | 3 12 0 |

HOBSON COUNTY.
Aratapu Village Settlement.

| 64 | 1 0 0 | 5 0 0 |

Town of Kaiwaka.

| 91 | 0 3 32 | 28 10 0 |
| 92 | 0 3 25 | 27 1 9 |

Suburbs of Kaiwaka.

| 199 | 10 2 0 | 31 10 0 |

WAIKATO COUNTY.
Suburbs of Rangiriri.

| 5 | 2 1 14 | 7 0 3 |
| 12 | 2 0 32 | 6 12 0 |

WAIPA COUNTY.
Suburbs of Newcastle South.

| 158 | 12 0 31 | 36 11 8 |
| 159 | 12 1 9 | 36 18 5 |

MANGONUI COUNTY.
Parish of Kaiaka.

| 90 | 174 3 15 | 87 10 0 |
| 92 | 93 0 0 | 46 10 0 |

Description of Land.—Portion mixed forest, remainder fern and tea-tree, broken, accessible by road.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.
Pukahau Block, Mangamuka Survey District.

Description of Land.—Much broken, about one-eighth open land, consisting of fern and tea-tree, the rest mixed forest with about a dozen large kauri trees, well watered, frontage to the Okaihau-Victoria Valley Road, where the bridge crosses the Mangamuku River.