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.

Public Reserves for Lease.

Lands and Survey Office,

Wellington, 22nd December, 1891.

T is hereby notified, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that the leases of the under-mentioned sections will be offered at public auction, at the County Council Offices, Pahiatua, on Friday, the 5th February, 1892, at 2 p.m.

Plan and form of lease can be seen and particulars obtained at this office.

The term of the leases will be seven years.

No allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessees.

A deposit of a half-year's rent and £1 11s. lease-fee must be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 24, Block VII., Mangahao District; area, 9 acres 2 roods; upset rental per acre per annum, 1s.

The above section is situated in the Woodville-Mangatainoka Block, at the confluence of the Mangatainoka and Makakahi Rivers, adjoining the Township of Scarborough, which is distant from Pahiatua about two miles by a formed road.

Section 26, Block IV., Mangahao District; area, 7 acres 3 roods 33 perches; upset rental per acre per annum, 1s.

This section is situated in the Mangatainoka Village Settlement, about five miles south of Woodville, fronting on the main road from Masterton; also having a frontage to the Mangatainoka River. This section comprises flat land of fairly good quality, and is covered with mixed bush.

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 March:

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 March:

JOHN H. BAKER,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Auction of Lands at Blenheim.

Lands and Survey Office,

Blenheim, 14th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be offered for disposal by public auction at the Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Tuesday, 23rd February, 1892, at noon:

FOR SALE FOR CASH.

Linkwater Survey District.

Section 2, Block XVI.: Area, 47 acres 3 roods 14 perches. Upset price, £24.

One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid at the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the payment at auction will be forfeited.

PASTORAL LICENSES (under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1885”).

Gore Survey District, East Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, Run No. 3: Estimated area, 100 acres; term, 5 years. Upset annual rent, £3.

Wakamarina Survey District, Kaituna Valley, adjoining Run 53: Estimated area, 900 acres; term, 10 years. Upset annual rent, £3 15s.

Wakamarina Survey District, Kaituna Valley, adjoining Sections 19, 21, and 105: Estimated area, 210 acres; term, 10 years. Upset annual rent, 17s. 6d. Half a year's rent and £1 1s. license-fee must be paid at the auction in each case.

LEASE (under Section 23 of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”).

Town of Picton: Sections 620, 621, 622, 623, and 624; area, 2 acres and 12 perches; term, 5 years. Upset annual rent, £2 10s. Half a year's rent and £3 for the lease must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

HENRY G. CLARK,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.