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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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koromiko, akeake, and rangiora, with patches of mixed forest-trees, such as rata, rimu, &c.; there are totara-trees in places. The runs are generally well watered. The cost of clearing would, on the whole, be light, and the lands, when cleared, would make capital grazing country.

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CONDITIONS.

Deferred-payment Rural Sections.

Terms of Payment: With the applications for deferred-payment sections one-twentieth of the upset price must be paid in cash, or by bank draft, or marked cheque, also £1 1s. license-fee; the balance of the purchase-money in half-yearly instalments extending over ten years.

Where more applications than one are made on the same day for the same land, the land applied for shall be put up to public competition by tender limited to the applicants. If there be only one tenderer for any allotment he shall be entitled to the land at the upset price, notwithstanding that his tender may have been for a higher price.

Perpetual Lease.

Any person of seventeen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington: Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s. in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same.

Any lessee who has fulfilled all conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment of the capital value, provided the payment is made within twelve years of the commencement of the lease.

NOTE.—Limits of area for each lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in the colony.

The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter being on “Public Service only,” and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of postage; neither does the declaration require to be stamped.

Small Runs.

The leases will be for an absolute term of twenty-one years, renewable for a further term of twenty-one years, in terms of section 209 of “The Land Act, 1885.”

Improvements equal in value to one year’s rent must be effected in each year for the first two years; and before the end of the sixth year an additional amount, equal to two years’ rent, must also be expended.

Valuations for permanent improvements, as prescribed in sections 210 and 214 of “The Land Act, 1885,” will be paid at the expiry of the leases to the outgoing tenants.

No person can take up more than one run. No person who owns freehold land, or land under lease or license from the Crown which in all would exceed 6,000 acres, or who is incapable of making the declaration prescribed by section 200 of “The Land Act, 1885,” can become a lessee.

Cash Village Settlement.

The total price of the purchase-money and also the Crown-grant fee of £1 to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

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Land Transfer Act Notices.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 29th day of October, 1887.

1810. JOHN FENTON BELL.—Part of Town Acre 919, City of Wellington. Unoccupied.

1811. THOMAS MILLS.—63 acres and 16 perches, Section 321, Hutt District. Unoccupied.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 28th day of September, 1887, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

GEO. B. DAVY,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

5517. MARY DALE.—3 acres 3 roods 12 perches, part Rural Section 1289, Block XV., Rangiora Survey District. Occupied by Applicant and John Davison.

5518. KATE EMILY HALL and JANE ELLIS NEWTON.—1 rood, Lot 74, Town of Timaru, part Rural Section 7555. Occupied by Mrs. Wally and Mrs. Stokes.

5519. EDWARD PERCY SEALY.—1 acre 1 rood 25 perches, part Rural Section 2334, Block X., Arowhenua Survey District. Occupied as a public road.

5520. FRANCIS EMBRY PLASTER.—1 rood, Lot 21, Plan 472, part Rural Section 110, Block X., Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by Applicant.

5521. EDWARD JAMES WILLIAMS.—1 rood, Section 47, Town of Lyttelton.—Occupied by Applicant.

5522. ROBERT HENRY PIERPOINT.—1 rood, Town Section 162, Geraldine. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 23rd day of September, 1887, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

J. M. BATHAM,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same in each case on or before the 2nd day of November next.

WILLIAM THOMPSON.—Allotment 113 of the Parish of Takapuna, containing 105 acres 2 roods. In Applicant’s occupation. 2652.

JOHN HENRY RICHARD BOND.—Lot 1 of the subdivision of Lot 16 of the subdivision of Allotment 30 of Section 8 of the Suburbs of Auckland. In occupation of Mrs. E. Joiner. 2662.

JOHN NEWLAND.—Allotment 13 and part of Allotment 8 of the Parish of Pakuranga, containing 122 acres 1 rood 13 perches. In Applicant’s occupation. 2666.

ANNIE LYDIA OWEN and GEORGE WILLIAM OWEN.—Lot 7 and parts of Lots 24, 25, and 26 of the subdivision of Allotment 13 of Section 8 of the Suburbs of Auckland. In occupation of Applicants. 2667.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 21st day of September, 1887, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

THEO. KISSLING,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned persons claiming as hereafter set forth will be registered Proprietors of the lands set opposite their respective names unless caveat be lodged against their applications on or before the 5th day of November next:—

Transmission No. 217.—SARAH McLEOD, claiming as Administratrix of DANIEL McLEOD, late of Westport, Contractor, deceased. Sections 744, 745, and 800, Town of Westport, containing 3 roods.

Transmission No. 218.—THOMAS HALL and EDWARD MOORE, claiming as Devisees of the late WILLIAM WESTBROOK SQUIRES, of Nelson, Doctor of Medicine. Section 35 and parts of Sections 1 and 2 of 34, Motueka District, and part of Section 9, Moutere District, containing together 251 acres, comprised in certificate of title, Vol. iii., folio 142.

Dated this 27th day of September, 1887, at the Lands Registry Office, Nelson.

ANDREW TURNBULL,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that a statutory declaration of the loss of certificates of title in favour of JOHN CHAMBERS and SEERING HALL MATTHEWS for Allotments 23 and 24 of Section 29, also Lot 3 of subdivision into lots of Allotment 26 of said Section 29 of the City of Auckland, and being the whole of the land comprised in Vol. i., folio 20, and Vol. xiii., folio 63, of the Register-books, having been filed in this office, and application having been made for the issue of provisional certificates for the same, it is my intention to issue such certificates unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 13th day of October next.

Dated at the Land Transfer Office, Auckland, this 22nd day of September, 1887.

THEO. KISSLING,
District Land Registrar.

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