FEB. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 161

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 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.

Sale of Reserves 315, 381, and 1289, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 19th January, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-mentioned blocks of land will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 21st April, 1886, at 12 o’clock noon.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the Public Trustee for Management during the Month of January, 1886.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1886.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.