Nov. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1263

Lands for Application as Village Homesteads, Land District of Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 24th September, 1891.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned land will be open for application under the village-homestead system on Thursday, the 12th November, 1891. Applications must be made on the proper forms, and must be made in person or sent through the post to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch. Application-forms and full particulars can be obtained at this office, and from the local Land Officer, Timaru.

This land is being opened for the purpose of providing homestead sites for intending settlers. Holders of other lands exceeding one acre in extent are not eligible as selectors. Any person putting in an application in contravention of the conditions under which the land is opened is liable to be prosecuted for making a false declaration, and any section obtained thereby is, in accordance with the conditions, forfeited. Alleged ignorance of the conditions will not, after this notice, be accepted as an excuse for persons putting in applications who hold other lands.

ASHBURTON COUNTY.—SHEPHERD’S BUSH SURVEY DISTRICT. SUBDIVISION OF RURAL SECTION 36297, NEAR MAYFIELD.

These sections front the Mayfield-Hinds Road, near Mayfield, contiguous to the water-race, and comprise light stony land.

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.

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

Lands open for Application, Marlborough Land District.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Blenheim, 19th October, 1891.

IN accordance with sections 92 and 173 of “The Land Act, 1885,” the Marlborough Land Board hereby notifies that the under-mentioned lands, having been previously offered by public auction, shall be open for application, at the upset price and respective annual rents set forth below, on and after Monday, the 23rd November, 1891:—

FOR SALE FOR CASH.

Mount Fyffe Survey District: Section 1, Block X., 1 rood 26 perches; upset price, £5. A deposit of one-fifth of the price of the land must be paid on application, and the balance, together with the Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the deposit will be forfeited.

PASTORAL RUNS UNDER PART VI., “LAND ACT, 1885.”

Arapawa Survey District, Ocean Bay, Port Underwood: Run No. 18, 450 acres; annual rent, £1 17s. 6d.

Wakamarina Survey District, Kaituna Valley: Run No. 55, 2,290 acres; annual rent, £9 10s. 10d.

Onamalutu Survey District, Kaituna Valley: Run No. 59, 1,240 acres; annual rent, £5 3s. 4d.

Arapawa Survey District, Cook Strait: Run No. 66, 1,350 acres; annual rent, £5 12s. 6d.

Hodder Survey District, Awatere Valley (late Penkridge Run): Run No. 67, 4,000 acres; annual rent, £16 13s. 4d.

In each case the licensee to have the boundaries laid off at his own expense, if required to do so by the Land Board.

A fee of £1 1s. for the license and half a year’s rent must be deposited with the application.

Further particulars and lithographic maps can be obtained on application at this office.

HENRY G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1893, the period of literature will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macaulay’s Essays on Bacon and Walpole.

W. P. REEVES.
Minister of Education.