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New Zealand Gazette – 1891 – No. 46

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✨ Conditions of Land Leases, Vital Statistics

JUNE 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 715

Conditions of sale are—

The term of lease is twenty-one years, with option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rental fixed by valuation,—improvements being secured to lessee,—as provided by “The Land Act, 1885,” section 209.
The upset rental is 2½ per centum on the price fixed for the land.
No person can lease more than one run.
Residence on the run is compulsory for six years, commencing within twelve months from commencement of lease, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on land in his occupation within ten miles of the run.
Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year.
One half-year’s rent to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land, but he can select 150 acres around the homestead, through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.
One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving the access to the land.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL’S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of May, 1891.

RETURN of the Number of Births, with the actual Mortality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to Population, in the under-mentioned Boroughs, during the Month of May, 1891.

BOROUGHS.	POPULATION, CENSUS, APRIL, 1891. (Subject to revision.)	TOTAL BIRTHS.	DEATHS REGISTERED IN MAY, 1891.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, May, 1891.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population in the Year 1890. (Corrected by Census returns.)
			Males.	Females.
			Under 1 Year.	1 & under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.
Auckland* .. ..	28,802	68	2	1	9
Wellington* .. ..	30,503	67	2	2	10
Christchurch* .. ..	16,295	32	1	..	3
Dunedin* .. ..	22,381	45	5	1	9
Thames .. ..	4,662	10	..	..	..
New Plymouth .. ..	3,360	9	..	..	1
Napier .. ..	8,368	32	..	..	3
Wanganui .. ..	5,017	10	..	..	2
Blenheim .. ..	3,294	18	..	..	1
Nelson .. ..	6,683	14	..	..	3
Sydenham .. ..	9,681	30	1	..	2
Lyttelton .. ..	4,091	10	1	..	2
Timaru .. ..	3,668	7	..	..	..
Oamaru .. ..	5,613	16	1	..	1
Greymouth .. ..	3,813	11	..	..	3
Hokitika .. ..	2,186	7	..	1	1
Caversham .. ..	4,685	16	..	1	3
Invercargill* .. ..	4,950	13	..	..	2
Totals .. ..	..	415	13	6	55

*The figures given represent the population within the several borough boundaries exclusive of the suburban population, which cannot be shown, the results of the census not yet being complete.

NOTE.—Deaths, occurring at hospitals, of persons not residents of the borough in which the hospital is situated are allotted to the borough where the diseases were contracted, and not to that in which the deaths actually took place.

The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 415, against 433 in April, a decrease of 18. The deaths in May were 146, a decrease of 33 on the number in April. Of the total deaths, males contributed 74; females, 72. Thirty-eight of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 26·03 per cent. of the whole number; 28 of these were under 1 year of age.

THE following Table shows the Causes of the Deaths of Persons of both Sexes under 5 Years of Age and 5 Years and upwards, and the Proportions per Cent. of Deaths from each Cause, in the Boroughs of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, that were registered during the Month of May, 1891.

CLASS.	CAUSES OF DEATH.	AUCKLAND.	WELLINGTON.	CHRISTCHURCH.	DUNEDIN.	TOTAL.	PROPORTIONS PER CENT.
		Under 5 Years.	5 Years & over.	Under 5 Years	5 Years & over.	Under 5 Years.	5 Years & over.
I	Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases	1	2	2	2	..	1
II.	Parasitic Diseases ..	..	..	..	..	..	..
III.	Dietetic Diseases ..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV.	Constitutional Diseases	1	5	1	3	..	3
V.	Developmental Diseases	1	..	..	1	2	..
VI.	Local Diseases ..	3	13	2	11	..	7
VII.	Violence .. ..	..	1	..	2	..	..
VIII.	Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	1	..	1	..	..	..
	Totals ..	7	21	6	19	2	11