260 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 12

Lands open for Application under Village-homestead Special Settlement Conditions in the West Waitapu and Welford Village Settlements.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be open for application, under the village-homestead regulations of the 27th February, 1891, on Friday, the 4th March, 1892. Applications must be made on the proper forms, and will be received at this office, and also at Feilding. They must be made in person to the Commissioner of Crown Lands or other officer of the department, who will attend there to receive them, but they will not be received at Feilding by post. If a ballot be found necessary it will take place at Feilding, on Saturday, the 5th March, at 9 a.m. Application-forms and full particulars can be obtained at this office.

These lands are 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.

SCHEDULE.
WEST WAITAPU VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

This village is situated at the junction of Williamson’s and Waituna Roads. The sections are nearly all level, a small portion of the area of each being undulating. The soil throughout is good, on different formation, consisting of gravel, sandstone, and clay. The timber consists of tawa, rimu, rata, kotukutuku, karamea, &c., with the usual undergrowth. The village as a whole is fairly well watered by streams running through it.

The access is by a formed road, via Waituna and Sinclair’s Roads, from Feilding, and is distant therefrom about fifteen miles and a half.

WELFORD VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

This village is situated at the junction of the Tapuae and Paroronga Roads, in the West Waitapu Block, and consists of level and hilly land. The soil is generally good; portions of all the sections except No. 1 have been cleared. The timber on the balance is of the usual mixed character, consisting of rata, hinau, mairi, tawa, rimu, &c., and the usual undergrowth.

The access is from Feilding, via Makino, Sinclair, and Mackay’s Roads, and Waitapu Village, the distance from Feilding being about eighteen miles.

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.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forfeited Deferred-payment Land.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of the Land Acts, that the under-mentioned section will be offered at auction, for selection on deferred payments, at Feilding, on Saturday, the 5th March, 1892, at 10 a.m.

Particulars can be obtained at this office, and at the principal post-offices in the district.

A deposit of one-twentieth of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. license-fee, must be deposited on the fall of the hammer, and the selector shall make the statutory declaration required under the deferred-payment system.

If there is no bid at the auction the section will be withdrawn till further notice.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 39, Block X., Pohangina District; area, 101 acres; upset price, £1 per acre.

This section is situated in the Awahou-Pohangina Special Settlement Block, east of the Pohangina River, about eleven miles from Ashurst.

The section consists generally of hilly land of fair quality.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.