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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

This village is situated at the intersection of the Mangaone Valley, Hawera, and Tawataia Roads, and is distant from Eketahuna about seven miles in a north-easterly direction, and is approached by formed roads. The land is good, and well watered. The timber consists chiefly of tawa, with a few rimu and matai trees. The altitude is about 600ft. above sea-level.

CONDITIONS OF SETTLEMENT.

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. H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land for Settlement, Land District of Wellington.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1891.

THE following land is being opened for ordinary selection under “The Land Act, 1887,” and will be opened early in February:—

Acres.
5 miles from Eketahuna, Mount Baker Block .. 5,500
21 miles from Pahiatua, North Puketoi Block .. 10,000
6½ miles from Birmingham, Oroua, Coal Creek Block 6,000
14 miles from Pipiriki, Waimarino Block .. 14,000

Total .. .. .. 35,500

To be followed by 40,000 acres now under survey between the Puketois and the East Coast.

The following village-settlement lands will be offered for sale in January:—

• Cleared land. † Part of Tutaekara township, subdivision of Lot 1, and part Lots 8 and 9.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Amending Notice.—Awarua Block.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1891.

THE inquiry notified to be held by the Chief Judge and an Assessor of the Native Land Court at Marton, on the 19th day of January, 1892, in respect of certain applications for rehearing certain decisions of the Court relating to the block above mentioned, will be held at Hastings, in the District of Hawke’s Bay, on the day before mentioned, and not at Marton as before notified.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

Application for Letters of Administration.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 15th December, 1891.

In the matter of the will of MAORA PUKE, aboriginal native woman, formerly of Akuaku, now deceased.

APPLICATION having been made by Maraki Tautuhi that letters of administration be granted herein:

It is hereby notified that all persons opposing such application must lodge a caveat in manner prescribed within two calendar months after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

Motukawa No. 2 Block.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Whanganui, on the 19th day of January, 1892, to hear the objections lodged in Court with regard to the plan of the Motukawa No. 2 Block above mentioned.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

Application for Probate.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1891.

In the matter of the will of HEREMAIA TAUNOA, of Port Levy, deceased.

APPLICATION having been made by Rakerā Taunoa that probate be granted of the aforesaid will:

It is hereby notified that all persons opposing such application must lodge a caveat in manner prescribed within two calendar months after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.