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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 43

SCHEDULE.

MANUKAU COUNTY.
Parish of Karaka (near Drury).

All open undulating land.

WAIKATO COUNTY.
Parish of Komakorau (near Ngaruawahia).

PIAKO COUNTY.
Suburbs of Te Aroha.

All level, open, and often swampy lands, easily drained.
Soil good. Adjacent to Te Aroha Government Township
and railway-line.

Application for all the above lands to be made at the
Crown Lands Office, Auckland.

COOK COUNTY.
Suburbs of Tiniroto.

Situate about sixteen miles from Gisborne by bridle- and
dray-road.

Application for these lands to be made at the Land Office,
Gisborne.

Plans may be seen and forms of application, &c., obtained
at this office, and at the Land Office, Gisborne.

REGULATIONS.

1. The land to be selected under these regulations shall be
   held on perpetual lease for the first term of thirty years, and
   for subsequent terms of twenty-one years, without any right
   of acquiring the freehold.

2. The rental shall be based on the capital value of the
   land, which shall in no case be less than 20s. an acre.

3. No charge will be made for the lease beyond the sum
   of 10s. for registering the same in the Land Transfer Depart-
   ment.

4. Renewals of leases shall be subject in all respects to
   the provisions of sections 151 to 155 of Part IV. of "The
   Land Act, 1885."

5. Married men will have preference as selectors under
   these regulations.

6. No greater area than fifty acres will be allotted to any
   one applicant.

7. Subject to such conditions as the Steward of Village
   Settlements may prescribe, and within the first five years of
   the date of the selection, an advance of a sum not exceeding
   £20 will be made to assist a selector in the erection of a
   house on his selection; and in bush lands a further sum not
   exceeding £2 10s. an acre up to but not exceeding an area of
   20 acres will be advanced for bush-felling and for grassing
   from such sums as may be appropriated by Parliament for
   these purposes.

8. The annual rent shall be 5 per cent. on the capital value
   of the land, together with 5 per cent. on such sums as may
   be advanced in terms of clause 7, payable half-yearly, on the
   1st day of January or July next ensuing after the lapse of
   six months from the dates of the selection and advances
   respectively.

9. All applications for land under these regulations shall
   be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the dis-
   trict. Where more applications than one are made on the
   same day for the same land, the right to occupy the land
   applied for shall, subject to clause 5, be determined by lot
   amongst the applicants.

10. Each selector or transferee will be required to occupy
    his selection as his home, and to make permanent improve-
    ments as required by clauses 11 and 12.

11. Each selector shall within two years cultivate one
    acre, and within four years the half of the remainder, of his
    selection.

12. Permanent improvement shall mean—
    (a.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable
    material, not being a brush fence; or
    (b.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or
    other cultivated grass; or
    (c.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other
    crops therein; and, in case of bush lands, the felling
    and clearing of timber and sowing of grass.

13. Selectors shall not subdivide or sublet their holdings;
    but, with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands
    for the district, they may transfer them, provided that all
    the conditions of these regulations have been fulfilled to
    date of application to transfer. No person who has an in-
    terest in any land in the colony shall be eligible as a selector
    under these regulations.

14. No selector shall take up more than one allotment
    under these regulations, which shall be held for his sole use
    and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other per-
    son whomsoever.

15. Any selector who shall fail to comply with these regu-
    lations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to
    the satisfaction of the Commissioner, forfeit his interest in
    the land selected.

16. In case any doubt shall arise as to the construction of
    these terms and conditions with reference to the selection
    and occupation or clearing of any land, or otherwise arising
    thereunder, the same shall be settled by the Commissioner.

Crown Lands to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System
under the Village Special Settlement Conditions.

Crown Lands Office,
Napier, 27th July, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications will be received
at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, on Monday, the
30th August next, for the sections enumerated in the Schedule
hereunder. In event of more than one application being
received for any section, the right to occupy the same will
be decided by lot amongst the applicants at 4 p.m. on the
day of the receipt of the applications.

Plans, terms, and further particulars can be obtained at
this office.

HORACE BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.