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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

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.

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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. 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.

Land Transfer Act Notices.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same in each case on or before the 25th day of January, 1892.

JAMES McPHERSON.—Allotment 81, Settlement of Pokeno, Suburban Section 1, Parish of Maungatawhiri, containing 10 acres. Unoccupied. 2913.

ANDREW MARSHALL SOMERVILLE LAING.—Part of Allotment 6, Parish of Karangahape, containing 271 acres. In Applicant’s occupation. 2929.

FREDERICK GEORGE CLAYTON.—Lots 2, 3, 27, and parts 1 and 4 of Allotments 39, 40, Section 3, Suburbs of Auckland, containing 1 rood 14 perches. In occupation of tenants. 2940.

PEKE WHATI and POATA MAKIRINI.—Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 66B, 67, 68, 69, 70, 423, 424, 425, 470, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, and 551 of the subdivision of Kauneranga No. 14 Block, Thames. Partly unoccupied and partly occupied by tenants and others. 2949.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 19th day of December, 1891, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

THEO. KISSLING,
District Land Registrar.

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A STATUTORY declaration of the destruction by fire of certificate of title, Vol. lxxix., folio 209, whereof JOHN ADAM HANSMANN is the registered Proprietor, having been lodged with me, and an application having been made for the issue of a provisional certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I shall issue the provisional certificate as requested at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch, this 23rd day of December, 1891.

J. M. BATHAM,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein after described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 1st day of February, 1892.

2140. RAYMOND POWER COLLINS.—Part of Section 508, City of Wellington, lying between Willis Street and Boulcott Street. Unoccupied.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 30th day of December, 1891, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

GEO. B. DAVY,
District Land Registrar.

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