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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

payments, or on perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 5th September, 1888.

A selector may purchase for cash, on deferred payments, or perpetual lease an area not exceeding 2,000 acres of second-class land at the prices stated. If the selector wishes to acquire any section on deferred payments, an addition of one-fourth to the cash price of the section will be made; i.e., where the price of the section is 15s. per acre for cash, the price will be 18s. 9d. per acre on deferred payments. If the selector wishes to take up a section on perpetual lease, the annual rental will be 5 per cent. on the cash price of the section; i.e., where the price is 15s. per acre, the rental will be 9d. per annum.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Survey District of Mikimiki.

Description of Land: These sections comprise generally hilly, forest, and scrub, with birch, and open and flat land in parts; the soil in some of the valleys is fairly good, but in many parts stony; the area is generally fairly well watered. The block is situated in the Kiriwakapapa Valley, at the back of Campbell’s and Harris’s farms, in the Upper Waipoua District, about twelve miles from Masterton.

CONDITIONS.

Cash.

Terms of Payment: One-fifth of the purchase-money for any land shall be deposited with the written application, and the balance thereof, together with the Crown-grant fee, within thirty days.

Disqualification: Any person owning such an area of freehold land in this land district which, when added to his application, would exceed 2,000 acres of second-class land, or who is unable to make the declaration contained in clause 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” is debarred under this system.

Perpetual Lease.

Any person of seventeen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person applying for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the application 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 applying for two or more leases of surveyed sections, 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.

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 2,000 acres of second-class land anywhere in the colony.

Deferred Payments.

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.

Disqualifications: All persons who are unable to make the declaration required by section 113 of “The Land Act, 1885,” and section 14 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” and all married women who are not legally separated from their husbands, are debarred from taking up land under this system.

General.

All applications for sections of surveyed land made on the same day shall be deemed as simultaneous. In cases where there is more than one application for the same land the right of occupation shall be determined by lot.

All applications must conform to the general scheme of sections as shown on the maps, and must be made in writing upon the proper printed forms provided for the purpose, and be accompanied by the required declaration, deposits, &c. If personal attendance is not possible, a duly-authorised agent should deposit the applications in this office, to avoid disappointment owing to incompleteness or informality causing rejection of the same. The land office will be open to applicants from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m., except on Saturdays, when the office will close at 1 p.m.

Full particulars, plans, forms, &c., may be obtained on application at this office.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Grey Coal Reserve Leaseholds for Sale by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 5th July, 1888.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leaseholds of the sections of land situated in the Grey Coal Reserve No. 274, and described in the Schedules A, B, C, D, E, and F, given below, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Railway Goods-station, Brunnerton, on Wednesday, the 22nd August next, at 2 o’clock p.m., subject to the rents, fees, and conditions hereunder set out.

Maps of the sections may be seen at the District Land Office, Hokitika; the Public Works Office, Greymouth; and the Railway-station, Brunnerton.

Term of leaseholds enumerated in Schedules A, B, C, D, and F, fourteen years.

Right of re-entry reserved to Government for coal-mining purposes only at any time during the currency of the lease, or at the termination thereof, by paying compensation for improvements not exceeding £200, &c.

At the same time and place the leasehold for coal-mining purposes of Section No. 734 (see Schedule E), within Grey Coal Reserve, east of and adjoining the Wallsend Coal Company’s lease, will be offered for sale by public auction, subject to rents and conditions as under:—

Term of leasehold, twenty-one years. First three years’ rent, £20 per annum; next four years’ rent, £100 per annum; next seven years’ rent, £200 per annum; next seven years’ rent, £250 per annum. Royalty, 6d. per ton on all coal raised; rent to merge in royalty.

Output for the first two years, nil; for the next five years, not less than 4,000 tons per annum; for the next seven years, not less than 8,000 tons per annum; and for the remainder of term, not less than 10,000 tons per annum.

In addition to those stated above, the leases will contain the ordinary and special conditions of leases of that description, full particulars of which will be given at sale, or may be obtained at the Land Office, Hokitika.

Conditions of Sale: The highest bidder to be the purchaser. The purchase-money in the case of the Dobson Town sections, the Brunnerton Township, Wallsend Railway Reserve, and Wallsend Township residential allotments, the Dobson suburban sections, and the coal-mining lease Section No. 734, one year’s rental, lease-fee, the full amount of bonus (if any), and value for improvements (if any), to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

In cases where the person entitled to valuation for improvements purchases, payment for rental, bonus, and lease-fee only will be required.

If any dispute occurs as to who is entitled to the value for improvements, the question will be decided by the Land Board; and, if any dispute arises as to any bidding, the auctioneer may put the lot up again.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.