Aug. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1037

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 Department.

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 district. 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 improvements 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 interest 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 person whomsoever.

15. Any selector who shall fail to comply with these regulations 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.

SCHEDULE.
Puketitiri Village Settlement.
Pohui Survey District.

Description: Undulating forest country, situate on the main road through the Puketitiri Bush. Accessible by roads which have been partly formed about two and a half miles through the bush; have been cleared of timber 1 chain in width. The Hawke's Bay County Council has formed a line of road giving access to these lands from the Patea Road, a distance of about seven miles from Tunanui. There is another dray-road via Puketapu and Rissington. The distance from Napier is about forty miles by road. The bush contains rimu, matai, and white-pine.

Sale of Crown Lands, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 15th July, 1886.

THE under-mentioned suburban and town lands will be sold by public auction, for cash, at the Courthouse, Waimate, on Tuesday, the 7th September, 1886, at 11 a.m.

Suburban Land, Waimate.

At an upset price of £8 per acre: Section 8, 1 acre 1 rood; 9, 1 acre 1 rood; 10, 1 acre and 19 perches; 11, 1 acre 3 roods 35 perches; 12, 1 acre 1 rood; 14, 2 acres 1 rood; 16, 3 acres and 18 perches; 17, 3 acres and 35 perches; 21, 2 acres 2 roods 7 perches; 22, 2 acres 2 roods 4 perches; 23, 2 acres 2 roods; 24, 4 acres and 24 perches; 25, 2 acres 3 roods 12 perches; 26, 27, 28, 2 acres 2 roods each; 29, 3 acres 3 roods; 30, 3 acres 1 rood 10 perches.

Town Land, Glenavy (near Railway-station, North Bank of Waitaki).

88 sections, averaging ¼ acre each, at an upset price of £7 10s. per ¼ acre.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Town, Suburban, and Rural Leaseholds, Rotorua, and Town Leaseholds near the celebrated Thermal Springs of Rotorua.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 30th July, 1886.

I HEREBY notify that the town, suburban, and rural lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Courthouse,