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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.

Sale of Village Section, Hunter ville.

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

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the under-mentioned section in the Hunter ville Village Settlement will be offered for sale for cash, by public auction, at Hunter ville, on Saturday, the 12th March, 1892, at 10 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SUBURBAN LAND.

SECTION 92, Hunter ville Village Settlement; area, 1 acre and 32 perches; upset price per lot, £8.
This section is situated on the Ongo Road, in the Town-

ship of Hunter ville, which is about sixteen miles from Marton, on the Murimotu Road and the projected North Island Main Trunk Railway, and the trains now run past the township. The quality of the land in Hunter ville is generally very good, and it is the centre of a large and progressive district.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Sections in the Village of Poukiore.

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

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the suburban sections in the Village of Poukiore, enumerated in the accompanying Schedule, will be offered for sale for cash, by public auction, at Hunter ville, on Saturday, the 12th March, 1892, at 10 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SUBURBAN SECTIONS.
Village of Poukiore.

This village is situated in the Porewa Valley, about five and a half miles from Hunter ville, on the Murimoto Road, the land being either level or easy sloping ground, whilst the soil is good to first class. The bush is of the usual mixed character—tawa, rata, hinau, rimu, &c.

Plans may be seen at the principal post-offices in the district, and at this office, where full particulars can also be obtained.
One-fifth of the purchase-money must be deposited on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the deposit will be forfeited.
There are no limitations or restrictions incumbent upon purchasers of town lands for cash.
All sections unsold at the auction will be withdrawn until further notice.

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 Hunter ville, on Saturday, the 12th 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 46, Block VII., Ongo District; area, 100 acres; upset price, £1 per acre.
The above is a section in the Sandon Small-farm Block, which is situated on the left bank of the Rangitikei River, about six miles from Hunter ville in an easterly direction.
The section consists of undulating broken land, and there is a gorge running through part of it.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.