FEB. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 263

Sale of Village Settlement Sections, Croydon, Southland.

Land and Survey Office, Invercargill, 14th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned village settlement sections will be open for sale and selection on Wednesday, the 24th February, upon the following terms and conditions:—

1. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be open as small-farm allotments, for sale or selection either for cash, or on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for sale or selection shall be Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

3. The purchaser for cash of any of the lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto must deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district one-fifth of the purchase-money at the time of application, and shall pay the whole remainder of the purchase-money within thirty days of the granting of his application; and if not paid within thirty days his deposit shall be forfeited, and the lands shall be again open for sale or occupation forthwith; and upon full payment of the purchase-money and one pound grant-fee he will be entitled to a Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

4. If any of the lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto are selected upon deferred payments, the selector shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

5. If any of the lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto are selected under the perpetual-leasing system, the selector shall be subject to the provisions of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

6. No person shall be allowed to apply for or select more than one allotment.

7. The prices stated in the First Schedule hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for sale for cash, or for selection on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

8. If there shall be more than one application on the same day for any allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

9. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section will be required to make the declaration prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district one-tenth of the price of the allotment; such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the next first day of January or July following the date of the license, as the case may be; and, upon fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by the said Act relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to the Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

10. Each applicant for any of the allotments on perpetual leasing will be required to make the declaration prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto, and to deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district a sum equal to one half-year's rent of the allotment included in the application, and such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year's rent due on the first day of January or July which shall first ensue after the commencement of the term, together with the sum of thirty shillings for the lease and registration thereof.

11. Each applicant for a section for cash will be required to make a statutory declaration that he is applying for the land solely for his own use and benefit, and not for the use and benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CROYDON VILLAGE.

Croydon Village is situate about four miles from Gore Railway-station, on the Invercargill-Dunedin line, and is undulating bush-land. Section No. 750 consists for most part of stony hill, and not much of it available for cultivation; there is, however, a pretty fair quantity of timber thereon. Sections valued at £1 15s. per acre are of a broken nature, and rather stony. Water can be obtained on all the sections. Section 772 is burdened with valuation for improvements to the extent of £100; Section 782, £60; Section 783, £10; and Section 787, £50.