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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

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.

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 application 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 “Pasturage 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 application as ordinary rural land (unsurveyed).

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land for Sale by Auction, Provincial District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 10th December, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned section of rural land will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Christchurch, at noon, on Wednesday, the 24th March, 1886:—

Plan may be seen at the Land Office, Christchurch.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.