New Zealand Gazette – 1887 – No. 54

Page 1097

✨ Land Sale Terms and Conditions

Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1097

The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.
If there should be more than one application for any village allotment in the First Schedule the right to purchase the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only ; and if there should be more than one application for any small-farm allotment in the Second Schedule the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.
Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Second Schedule will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Otago Land District one-tenth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
The purchaser of any lands described in the First Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Second Schedule, upon the like payment, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885,” relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
VILLAGE ALLOTMENTS FOR CASH.
Niagara Village Settlement, Waikawa District.

Section.	Area.	Upset Price per Acre.
	A. R. P.	£ s. d.
1	0 1 7	5 0 0
2	0 1 0	5 0 0
3	0 1 0	5 0 0
4	0 1 0	5 0 0
5	0 1 0	5 0 0
6	0 1 0	5 0 0
7	0 1 0	5 0 0
8	0 1 0	5 0 0
12	0 1 0	5 0 0
13	0 1 0	5 0 0
14	0 1 0	5 0 0
15	0 1 0	5 0 0
16	0 1 0	5 0 0
17	0 1 0	5 0 0
18	0 1 0	5 0 0
19	0 1 0	5 0 0
20	0 1 0	5 0 0
21	0 0 35	5 0 0
22	0 0 35	5 0 0
23	0 1 0	5 0 0
25	0 0 39	5 0 0
26	0 0 28	5 0 0
33	0 2 27	5 0 0
34	0 1 28	5 0 0
35	0 1 5	5 0 0

SECOND SCHEDULE.
SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Niagara Village Settlement, Waikawa District.

Section.	Area.	Upset Price per Acre.
	A. R. P.	£ s. d.
31	1 3 13	1 10 0
32	1 1 2	1 10 0
38	3 1 21	1 0 0
40	2 3 15	1 10 0
41	5 1 9	1 0 0

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of a Village Settlement in Block VII., Waikawa District, Otago Land District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington; this sixteenth day of August, 1887.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto for sale as a village settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon which the said village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

The lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be disposed of as small-farm allotments upon deferred payments.
The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Wednesday, the twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven at the Land Office, Dunedin.
The lands will be disposed of by sale upon deferred payments, and shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1885.”
No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section.
The prices stated in the Schedule hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.
If there should be more than one application for any allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.
Each applicant for a section in the Schedule will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Otago Land District one-tenth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
The purchaser of any lands 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 land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

SCHEDULE.

SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Village Settlement in Block VII., Waikawa District.

Section.	Area.	Upset Price per Acre.
	A. R. P.	£ s. d.
17	37 3 17	1 0 0
18	39 0 23	1 0 0
19	45 1 33	1 0 0
20	44 0 0	1 0 0
21	23 2 16	1 10 0
22	19 0 18	1 5 0
23	17 1 22	1 5 0
24	10 2 8	1 10 0
25	14 3 35	1 10 0
26	15 2 21	1 10 0
27	12 3 0	1 10 0
28	17 1 12	1 10 0
29	12 2 0	1 10 0
30	18 2 20	1 10 0
31	15 0 0	1 10 0
32	17 1 6	1 10 0
33	28 2 30	1 5 0
35	10 2 32	1 10 0
36	31 3 0	1 10 0
37	41 3 20	1 0 0
38	41 3 20	1 0 0
39	14 2 32	1 10 0
40	22 0 6	1 10 0
41	32 3 16	1 10 0

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1887, No 54

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🗺️ Order in Council: Terms and Conditions of Sale for Niagara Village Settlement (continued from previous page)

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated16 August 1887
KeywordsLand sale, Niagara, Village Settlement, Cash and Deferred Payments, Otago, Terms and Conditions
👩‍💼 Officials

Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

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