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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

Crown Lands Notices.

Leases of Small Grazing-runs, Marlborough, open for Application.

District Land Office,
Blenheim, 8th June, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for application, at this office, on Thursday, the 27th July, 1893, at the rental noted opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Situate at back of freehold sections in Kaituna Valley, on main road, Blenheim to Nelson; soil ranging from inferior on ridges to fair in gullies; partly scrub and partly bush; about twenty miles from Blenheim and seven miles from Havelock.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed hereon.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must accompany the application; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st March, 1894.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

DECLARATION.

I, __, of *__, 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, 1892,” am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.†

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

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 __, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town and Rural Lands, Auckland, for Sale.

District Land and Survey Office,
Auckland, 31st May, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned town and rural lands will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 28th day of July prox., at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

Half forest and half fern land, containing twenty dead and twenty-six green kauri trees.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, £1, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Suburbs of Ngongotaha, Auckland, for Sale.

District Land and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th June, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned lots in the Suburbs of Ngongotaha, Rotorua, will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Courthouse, Rotorua, on Tuesday, the 8th day of August proximo, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.
SUBURBS OF NGONGOTAHA.

These lots are situated about 3½ miles from Rotorua Township, at the junction of the Oxford, Tauranga, and Rotorua Roads, and near the Railway-station.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.