Aug. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1261

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection
   shall be Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of September, one
   thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the
   land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as pro-
   vided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications
   shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands,
   Wellington, and at Levin; and leases will be issued in
   accordance with the provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occu-
   pation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or
   single), and will be required to make the declaration hereby
   prescribed.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent,
   together with the lease and registration fee, immediately
   the application has been approved or declared successful at
   the ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the
   first days of January and July in each year, as provided in
   section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is
   payable as before provided. The next payment of rent will
   become due on 1st January, 1895.

8. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and such
   allotment shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and
   not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.
   No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this
   provision shall not apply to any married woman who may
   become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

9. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one
   year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence
   shall be continuous.

10. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in
    each lease shall, subject to clause No. 9, be as provided in
    Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and
    all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial
    improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these
    regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other
    provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence,
    shall, subject to clause No. 9, apply accordingly to lessees
    under these regulations.

Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean
and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush,
gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting
gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or
water-tanks, constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making
embankments or protective works of any kind, in any way
improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erec-
tion of any non-movable building.

11. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land
    held by him under these regulations, except under and sub-
    ject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

12. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable,
    shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regula-
    tions, and to the applications and leases to be made and
    issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and
    the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby
    affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the
    said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision
    of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY APPLICANT.

I, A.B., 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 applying for the purchase of a
   lease of Section , Block , District.

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

4. That I am not the owner, or lessee, or occupier, directly
   or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other
   person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony ex-
   ceeding in the whole one acre.

5. That I have not, within one year from the date hereof,
   surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal or lease
   in perpetuity of the lands for a lease whereof I am now
   applying.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving 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."
A.B.

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before
me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of
New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Land in the Nelson Land District withdrawn from
Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
me by the sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I,
David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the day of
the date hereof the notification issued on the tenth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two,
opening land for sale or selection under the provisions of
Part III. of "The Land Act, 1892," shall be and the same is
hereby revoked in so far as it relates to the sections of land
mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that block of land, containing approximately 500
acres, situated in the upper portion of the Kaituna Valley,
being partly in Block III., Aorere District, and partly in
Block XIII., Pakawau District, and lying behind Surveyed
Sections 4, 5, 52, Block III., Aorere.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this first day of August, one thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Taranaki for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of
"The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
Wednesday, the third day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-four, as the time at which the lands
enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public
auction, and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands
shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto
opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Township of Maniaia.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this first day of August, one thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.