Jan. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 135

Crown Lands in the Arawata Valley, Provincial District of
Westland, to be leased on the Perpetual-leasing System.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 21st January, 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 written tenders in sealed covers will be received up to
12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, the 17th March, 1886.
The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land
Board on the same day. Maps, conditions, and tender-forms
at Land Office, Hokitika, and District Land Office, Jackson's
Bay.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Description : The sections are situated on the western
bank of the Arawata River, about ten miles from the sea-
coast, comprising part bush and part open land; soil good,
and averaging about 2 feet in depth.

Abstract of Conditions relating to Perpetual Leases.

Any person of seventeen years of age and upwards may
become a lessee. The highest tenderer, if his tender shall
be equal to or shall exceed the upset price, shall be declared
the lessee ; but, if the rent offered by two or more tenderers
is the same in amount, then it shall be decided by lot which
person shall be the lessee. If there be only one tenderer,
then the rent shall be the upset price notwithstanding his
tender may have been higher.

Improvement Conditions: One-twentieth of the land leased
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 any-
   where 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 be-
lieving 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.

Reserve to be sold by Auction, Provincial District of
Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 21st January, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land
will be submitted to public auction at the Courthouse,
Waimate, on Saturday, the 1st May, 1886, at 12 o'clock
noon :—

RESERVE 134, NORTH BANK, RIVER WAITANGI.

Terms: One-fourth of purchase-money on fall of the
hammer, balance within two calendar months thereafter,
when, if balance is not paid, the one-fourth referred to will
be forfeited, and the sale declared null and void. Crown-
grant fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves to be sold by Auction, Provincial District of
Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 21st January, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
Crown land will be open for application, upon deferred
payments, at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, on
Wednesday, the 28th April, 1886 :—

RESERVE 134, WAITANGI RIVER.

Should two or more persons apply for the allotment on the
same day, the land will be put up to public competition by
tender, limited to the applicants.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Terms and Conditions of Sale.

1. The land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be
   open for application on deferred-payment conditions, at the
   prices stated in such Schedule.
2. The day upon which the land shall be open for appli-
   cation shall be the 28th day of April, 1886, at the Land
   Offices, Christchurch and Timaru.
3. The land shall be subject to the provisions relating to
   rural lands of Part III. of "The Land Act, 1885."
4. Should two or more persons apply for the allotment on
   the same day, the land will be put up to public competition
   by tender, limited to the applicants.
5. Each applicant will be required to make the declaration
   prescribed by section 113 of "The Land Act, 1885," and
   shall, at the time of application, deposit with the Receiver
   of Land Revenue for the Canterbury Land District one-
   twentieth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall
   be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six
   months due the 1st July, 1886.
   The purchaser of the land described in the Schedule,
   upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and also the
   fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by "The
   Land Act, 1885," relating to lands on deferred payments, will
   be entitled to a Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way
   upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

Pasturage Reserve, Block IV., Campbelltown Hundred.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 27th November, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the 232nd clause of
"The Land Act, 1885," that the area of land in
Block IV., Campbelltown Hundred, known as the "Pas-
turage Reserve," which has hitherto been excluded from sale,
has been released from such exclusion, and, on and after the
1st March, 1886, the land in question will be open for appli-
cation as ordinary rural land (unsurveyed).

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,