Oct. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1117

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.

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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.

J. S. BROWNING,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection, Southland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 3rd September, 1891.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 21st October, 1891. In cases where more than one application is received for the same section, priority of choice will be decided by lot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the Crown Lands Office, Invercargill:—

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Longwood District.

3 | XV. | 313 0 6 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 0 1 0
4 | " | 264 0 38| 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 0 1 0
5 | " | 289 1 12| 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 0 1 0
9 | " | 204 1 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 0 1 0

Situated on the coast between Orepuki and Waiau Mouth; land consisting of partly open and partly bush-clad terraces; produces excellent grasses when bush is cleared.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waikawa Survey District.

1 | VI. | 316 0 20 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths bush, balance open undulating, manuka and birch timber, soil poor.

2 | VI. | 323 2 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
One-half manuka scrub and mixed bush, undulating, mixed agricultural and pastoral.

3 | VI. | 508 0 28 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths red-pine and manuka bush, mixed with birch, soil thin and poor.

4 | VI. | 297 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths manuka and red-pine and birch bush, balance scrub and flax, undulating, poor soil.

5 | VI. | 320 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
One-fifth mixed bush and manuka scrub, balance scrub, flax, and fine grass, poor soil.

6 | VI. | 318 1 24 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Four-fifths mixed bush, back portion steep, balance scrub and flax, agricultural and pastoral, poor soil.

7 | VI. | 319 1 4 | 0 10 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 0 6
Two-thirds mixed bush, back portion steep, balance scrub and flax, agricultural and pastoral, poor soil.

8 | VI. | 311 1 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
One-half mixed bush, back portion steep, balance scrub and flax, agricultural and pastoral, fair soil.

9 | VI. | 308 3 9 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
One-half manuka and green scrub, small pine and birch bush, back portion steep, fair soil.

10 | VI. | 226 3 8 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
One-half manuka and green scrub and birch bush, fair soil, balance box- and black-scrub and flax.

The above sections are all well watered, and lie from one and a half to four miles back from nearest formed road, and from eight and a half to eleven miles from Waikawa Harbour.

Longwood Survey District.

12 | XV. | 257 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
Light bush, manuka, mapo, kapuka, &c., level, subject to flood.

13 | XV. | 248 3 23 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
14 | " | 300 3 1 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, level.

15 | XV. | 176 3 33 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, swampy, level.

16 | XV. | 193 3 10 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, undulating.

17 | XV. | 150 1 32 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, swampy, level.

18 | XV. | 228 2 28 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
19 | " | 228 3 7 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, undulating.

20 | XV. | 145 0 18 | 0 15 0 | 0 18 9 | 0 0 9
Light bush as above, with a few kamai and pine trees interspersed, level.

21 | XV. | 207 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 0 15 7½ | 0 0 7½
Light bush, manuka, mapo, kapuka, &c., level, subject to flood.

This block is all bush, level land, gravel formation, light soil, good for growing grass after bush is felled and burnt off. Nearest railway-station, Orepuki, about eight and a