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625

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1894.

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead
Settlements in Canterbury.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixteenth
day of April, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-ninth section
of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to
as “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in
Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the
lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject
as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a
Proclamation made under the said Act on the eleventh
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the
nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-four, the lands described in the First Schedule
hereto have been set apart under the said Act, and “The
Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893,” and declared open
for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix
the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall
be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix and
prescribe the terms and conditions set forth in the Second
Schedule hereto as those upon which the lands mentioned
in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way
of lease in perpetuity, and doth hereby direct that the
lands in the said village settlements shall be divided into
village-homestead allotments only.

A

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT COUNTY.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Cheviot Survey District.—Caverhill Village.

14 | VII. | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d.
15 | " | 25 2 0 | 0 3 6 | 2 4 8
16 | " | 50 0 0 | 0 6 0 | 7 10 0
17 | " | 50 0 0 | 0 6 0 | 7 10 0
18 | " | 50 0 0 | 0 4 6 | 5 12 6
20 | " | 54 1 0 | 0 5 0 | 6 15 8
21 | " | 38 3 0 | 0 3 0 | 2 18 2
22 | " | 100 0 0 | 0 3 6 | 8 15 0
25 | " | 100 0 0 | 0 3 0 | 7 10 0
| " | 54 0 0 | 0 3 0 | 4 1 0

Section 14 consists of a steep face, and small good flat,
with well-grassed sunny aspect; watered by stream. Fenced
on two sides by a substantial wire fence. Only a portion of
this section is ploughable.

Sections 15, 16, 17, and 18 comprise rich, deep alluvial
flats, swamps, and ploughable downs, more or less broken by
gullies; the downs and dry land have been broken up, and
laid down in English grasses; the flats are at present partly
subject to overflow; the swamps can be drained. There is a
good iron fence along the western boundary.

Sections 20, 21, 22, and 25 comprise low flat-topped downs
and swamps; the tops and a fair proportion of downs are
ploughable; the southern faces are ferny; in places there is
a fair depth of soil, in other parts the soil is thin; the lands
are fairly grassed with tussock and other native and Eng-
lish grasses, and are all watered by streams.

Sections 14 to 25 are situated in the Ram Paddock, and
are from 20 chains to two miles from Mackenzie Township.