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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

Crown Lands Notices.

Conditions of Sale of Reserve No. 288, Canterbury.

District Land and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 15th June, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the lands specified in the following Schedule will be submitted for sale on deferred payments, by public auction, in the first instance, at this office, on Thursday, 11th August, at 11 o’clock a.m., under and subject to the provisions of sections 108, 109, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, and 131 of “The Land Act, 1885,” at the upset prices set forth in the said Schedule.

Any lands not sold by auction on the day of sale shall be open thereafter at the upset price, but subject to these terms and conditions as far as applicable.

No person may hold more than one section of the lands specified in the Schedule hereto; and no owner or occupier of more than 50 acres of land in New Zealand over and above the area comprised in any one of the said sections which he desires to acquire, and no person who is unable to make the declaration in the form annexed hereto, is eligible to bid at the auction or apply for or hold any of the said sections.

The term of license shall in each case be for a period of ten years, from the 1st day of July, 1892, or the 1st day of January or July next ensuing after the sale.

It shall be a condition of sale that one-half year’s instalment, together with £1 1s. license-fee, shall be paid by the purchaser on the fall of the hammer, or with his application, and he shall lodge therewith the prescribed declaration.

In all respects not hereinbefore expressly provided for, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” and its amendments, shall, so far as applicable, be deemed to apply to sales and purchases of these lands.

The license being for ten years, the first payment is one-twentieth of the total purchase-money; the balance being payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each year.

Each selector is required, by the terms of his license, to personally reside on his section within six months of the date of his license, and to continue so to reside for a period of six years from the issue of the license. He is also required to effect cultivation as follows: Within one year from the date of his license, not less than one-twentieth of the area of the land; within two years, not less than one-tenth; and within four years, not less than one-fifth. Each selector shall, within six years from the date of his license, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the area of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent nature on the land, to the value of £1 for every acre of such land.

SCHEDULE.
RESERVE 288, NORTH RAKAIA.

This reserve is situated on each side of, and adjacent to, the main south railway-line, immediately to the north-east of the River Rakaia. The distance from the Bankside Railway-station, in a south-westerly direction, is about three miles, and from the Rakaia Railway-station, across the river, about two miles. Lots 1, 2, and 7 comprise good soil. On Lot 3 is good soil, though slightly stony. Lots 4, 5, and 11 contain very light and stony soil. Lots 6, 12, and 13, good light soil, stony in places. Lots 8, 9, and 10, on the south-east side of the railway, comprise light and stony soil.

DECLARATION.

I, ____, of ____, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.
2. I am making the present selection of land [or I am desirous of becoming the transferee of a license for land held by ____, of ____], under the system of deferred payments, under and subject to the provisions of sections 108, 109, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, and 131 of “The Land Act, 1885,” and its amendments, bonâ fide for my own exclusive use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever, and for the purpose of cultivation.
3. I have not at any time acquired the freehold of any land under the deferred-payment system, or under the homestead system, to the extent of more than 50 acres in all.
4. I am not the holder, either in my own name or in the name of any other person, of, and that I am not beneficially interested in, any lands of the Crown within the colony under the deferred-payment system, or under the perpetual-lease system, or under any agricultural lease, to an amount which, added to the acreage comprised in this present application, would exceed the same by more than 50 acres.
5. I am not the owner of a pre-emptive right, or of 50 acres of land in all.

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.)

Taken and declared at ____, this ____ day of ____ 18 ____, before me, ____, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Received on ____, 18 ____, at ____.

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale by Auction of Allotments in the Suburbs of Manai’a.

District Land and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 13th June, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned allotments of land in the Suburbs of Manai’a will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of seven years, at this office, at noon on Saturday, the 16th July, 1892:—

WAIMATE SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLOCK VII.

Conditions of leases and all other information may be ascertained on inquiry at this office.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Lease of Reserve at Patea.

District Land and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 16th May, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the lease of Section No. 32, Block VIII., Waimate Survey District, containing 28 acres, will be offered at public auction, at the Land Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 13th July, 1892, at 11 a.m.

The term of the lease will be for seven years, and the upset rental 10s. per acre per annum.

The land is situate on the Waingongoro River, about four miles from the Town of Hawera, and local bodies have the right to remove gravel from the section.

No compensation will be allowed for improvements at the end of the term.

Further particulars may be ascertained on application at this office.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Pastoral Licenses, Small Grazing-run Leases, Forfeited Deferred Payments, Rural, and Town Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 25th May, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral licenses, small grazing-run leases, forfeited deferred payments, rural, and town lands will be submitted to public auction at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on Friday, the 15th July, 1892, at 11.30 a.m.:—

PASTORAL LICENSES, UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1885.”

Run 39, Lake County; about 340 acres; term, ten years. Upset rental, £5 per annum. Situated on the opposite side of the Arrow River from Arrowtown, about 119 miles from Dunedin.

Earnslaw District, Sections 60 to 67, Block II., and Glenorchy District, Sections 38, 40, and 41, Block I., (grouped), Lake County; about 554 acres; term, seven years. Upset rental, £1 per annum.