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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

MANGARAMARAMA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

Makuri Survey District.

These sections are situated on or adjacent to the North Tiraumea dray-road, about four and a half miles from Pahiatua, and comprise good alluvial land covered with a forest of tawa, rimu, rata, hinau, matai, and some totara and kahika- tea trees ; the undergrowth consists of ma hoe, ramarama, konini, horopito, supplejacks, &c.

The area is well watered by the Mangatainoka River and Mangaramarama Stream, which occasionally flood portions of the land.

The sections are admirably adapted for occupation by small farmers.

PAHIATUA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT.

Mangahao Survey District.

CONDITIONS.

Term of lease, thirty years ; renewable for further periods of twenty-one years.

Rents are payable half yearly, on the first days of January and July in each year.

No rent need be paid for the first two years. The unpaid rent will, however, be added to the capital value, and rent then paid on such increased value, or the arrears of rent can be paid off at any time.

A fee of 10s. will be charged for registration of lease.

No lease shall be issued until after the payment of the first half-year's rent.

Settlers shall not subdivide or sublet their holdings ; but, with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district, they may transfer them, provided that all the conditions of these regulations have been fulfilled to date of application to transfer, and the two years' arrears of rent paid in full.

Each settler or transferee will be required to occupy his selection as his home, and to make substantial improvements.

The erection of a dwelling-house must be completed within six months of the date of selection, and each settler must reside on his section within that time. In bush-lands this may be deferred until one month after the first burn, but no longer.

In bush-lands each settler must begin bush-felling immediately.

Those settlers who may desire an advance of £10 will obtain payment from the Steward, on his certificate that a dwelling-house of at least that value has been erected on the land.

Each settler shall within two years cultivate one acre, and within four years the half of the remainder, of his selection, and make substantial improvements.

Substantial improvements shall mean—
(1.) Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence ; or
(2.) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or other cultivated grass ; or
(3.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other crops therein ; and, in case of bush lands, the felling and clearing of timber and sowing of grass.

Any person who has an interest in any land of more than an acre in extent in the colony is not eligible to select.

No person can hold more than one section.

Married men will have preference as selectors.

No married women are eligible as selectors.

When more applications than one are made on the same day for the same land, the right to occupy the land applied for shall, subject to married men having the preference, be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

Any settler who shall fail to comply with these regulations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, forfeit his interest in the land selected.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY APPLICANT.

I, , of , in the Land District, and Colony of New Zealand, , 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 applying for a lease of Section , Block , District.

3. That I am applying for such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and for the purpose of cultivation, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.

4. That 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 one acre.

5. That I have not, within seven years from the date hereof, surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal.

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."

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before me, Justice of the Peace.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Auction Sale of Pastoral Licenses and Leases of Public Reserves, Westland District.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 16th July, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses of the runs set out below will be offered by public auction, at the Land Office, Hokitika, on Tuesday, the 8th day of September next, at the hour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the prices and terms as given, and subject to any rights of renewal, &c., as may be prescribed by the Land Acts or any other constituted authority.

Also, at the same time and place, the leaseholds of the sections in the Grey Coal Reserve, also set out hereunder. Terms of these leaseholds as set out, annual rentals fixed, bidding by bonus; right of re-entry reserved to Government, for coal-mining purposes only, by paying compensation for improvements not exceeding £200.

Maps of the sections in Grey Coal Reserve may be seen at the District Land Office, Hokitika, and at the Railway-station, Brunnerton.

Maps of the pastoral runs may be seen at the District Land Office, Hokitika, where full particulars as to conditions of sale and conditions of lease may be ascertained.

Payments to be made on fall of the hammer, and consist, with regard to pastoral licenses, of six months' rent in advance, and license-fee, £1 1s. ; with regard to leaseholds in Grey Coal Reserve, one year's rental in advance, lease-fee, full amount of bonus (if any), and value for improvements (if any).

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.