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to be cultivated at the end of the first year, one tenth at the end of the second, and one-fifth at the end of the fourth year. Substantial improvements to the extent of £1 per acre to be effected by the end of the sixth year. Personal residence for the first two years from date of lease not necessary.

Declaration required by the Act (see form below).

Six months’ rent, together with the sum of £1 10s., cost of lease, &c., is required to be deposited in cash, or by marked cheque, with every tender.

Tenders to be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hokitika, and the words “Tender for Section No. ,” to be written on the envelopes enclosing said tenders, deposits, declarations, &c.

Form of Declaration.

I, A.B. [Here insert place of abode and occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” am tendering for the purchase of a lease.

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and for the purposes of cultivation, and not, directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.

4. That, including the said lands, I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole six hundred and forty acres.

5. That I have not, within seven years from the date hereof, surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal of the lands for a lease whereof I am now tendering.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

A.B.

Declared at , this day of , 1886, before me,

a Justice of the Peace.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Reserves 207, 208, and 684, Hart’s Creek, Lake Ellesmere, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 26th June, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned sections in the above reserves will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on the 11th August, 1886, at 12 o’clock noon :—

The following sections will be chargeable with the value of improvements, which will be payable in cash at the time of auction: No. 1, £55; No. 3, £26; No. 4, £40; No. 6, £76 10s.; No. 11, £12.

Plan may be seen and particulars obtained at the Land Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands within the Okarito and Jackson’s Bay Ridings, Land District of Westland, to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System, under Section 161 of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 8th July, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections are open for leasing for a term of thirty years, with the right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years, and that applications for the same will be received on and after the 25th August, 1886, at the Land Office, at Hokitika. Applications for sections situate within the Jackson’s Bay Riding may also be made at the District Land Office, Arawata.

Maps to be seen and conditions and forms to be obtained at the Land Offices named.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Situate in the Waiho Survey District.—North-east bank of Omoeroa River, and including the flat land extending from the sea-coast to about a mile inland.

| 655 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 656 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 657 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 658 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 659 | 40 0 0 | 2 0 0 |
| 660 | 40 0 0 | 2 0 0 |
| 661 | 40 0 0 | 2 0 0 |

Situate in Gillespie’s Survey District.—South-west bank of Waikukupa River, and including the flat land extending from the sea-coast to about a mile inland.

| 636 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 637 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 638 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 639 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 640 | 40 0 0 | 2 0 0 |
| 641 | 30 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 642 | 30 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 643 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |

Situate in the Bruce Bay District.—North of and adjoining the Manakaiau River, with a frontage of about a mile to the sea-coast and a depth of half a mile. The land is surrounding Native Reserve No. 12, at Hunt’s Beach.

| 644 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 645 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 646 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 647 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |

Situate in the Abbey Rocks Survey District.—On south bank of the Paringa River, south of and adjoining the Ferry Reserve at the Main South Road-crossing of Paringa River.

| 664 | 30 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 665 | 30 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 666 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 667 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |

Situate in the Okuru Survey District.—On south bank of Haast River, west of and adjoining Mr. J. Marks’s farm, and extending to the lagoon.

| 235 | 49 3 25 | 2 10 0 |
| 451 | 48 3 9 | 2 9 0 |
| 467 | 47 3 17 | 2 8 0 |
| 468 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 476 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |

Situate in the Okuru Survey District.—On the banks of the Okuru and Turnbull Rivers, adjoining lands held by Jackson’s Bay settlers.

| 347 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 348 | 46 1 17| 2 7 0 |
| 349 | 40 3 25| 2 1 0 |
| 406 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |

Situate in the Arawata Survey District.—On the banks of the Waiatoto River, and adjoining the farm of Messrs. Nissen and Casey.

| 301 | 50 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 302 | 6 3 27 | 0 7 0 |
| 303 | 15 3 28| 0 16 0 |
| 304 | 15 1 36| 0 16 0 |
| 305 | 15 0 8 | 0 16 0 |
| 306 | 35 3 35| 1 16 0 |
| 307 | 22 0 19| 1 3 0 |
| 308 | 19 3 28| 1 0 0 |
| 309 | 18 1 17| 0 19 0 |
| 310 | 17 0 16| 0 18 0 |
| 311 | 16 2 20| 0 17 0 |
| 312 | 17 2 9 | 0 18 0 |
| 313 | 18 1 8 | 0 19 0 |
| 314 | 18 0 15| 0 19 0 |
| 315 | 17 3 9 | 0 18 0 |
| 316 | 17 3 28| 0 18 0 |
| 317 | 18 1 26| 0 19 0 |