Feb. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 253

Village-homestead Lands, Wellington, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1895.

THE under-mentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, and at the Argyle Hall, Hunter ville, on Monday, 11th March, 1895.

If more than one application be received for the same section on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the Argyle Hall, Hunter ville.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

The Village of Marshall is situated at Curl’s Clearing, in the Otamakapua Block, about thirty-two miles from Feilding and eight miles from the projected Marton-Te Awamutu Railway; the road has been partly formed to within two miles of the village. The area comprises flat and undulating open land of fair quality, well watered by the Kiwitea; ample provision has been made for reserves for public purposes, including school, recreation, public buildings, and cemetery. The elevation of the land is about 1,300ft. above the sea-level. The climate is favourable for agricultural and pastoral pursuits. As the position is central to a large area of country, the sections are suitable for occupation by a working-man or small settler.

West Wai-tapu | 24 | .. | 2 0 0 | 4 0 | 0 4 0
Ditto .. | 25 | .. | 3 0 20 | 3 9·6 | 0 5 11
Weighted with £5 10s. for improvements.

The Village of West Waitapu is situated at the junction of Williamson’s and Waituna Roads. The sections are nearly all level, a small portion of the area of each being undulating. The soil is good throughout, on different formation, consisting of gravel, sandstone, and clay. The timber consists of tawa, rimu, rata, kotukutuku, karamea, &c., with the usual undergrowth. The village as a whole is fairly well watered by streams running through it. The access is by a formed road, via Waituna and Sinclair’s Roads, from Feilding, and is distant therefrom about fifteen miles and a half.

Welford .. | 1, 3, 4 | .. | 22 3 4 | 2 9·6 | 1 11 11
" .. | 6 | .. | 5 0 34 | 4 0 | 0 10 5
" .. | 7 | .. | 4 2 32 | 4 0 | 0 9 5

The Village of Welford is situated at the junction of the Tapuae and Paroranga Roads, in the West Waitapu Block, and consists of level and hilly country. The soil is generally good. Portions of all the sections have been cleared. The timber consists of rata, hinau, maire, tawa, rimu, &c., and the usual undergrowth. The access is from Feilding, via Makino, Sinclair, and Mackay’s Roads, and Waitapu Village, the distance from Feilding being about eighteen miles.

Poukiore .. | 2, 4, 6, 8 | .. | 5 0 35 | 3 7·2 | 0 9 5
" .. | 10,15,16 | .. | 4 2 2 | 3 7·2 | 0 8 2
" .. | {18,19,20,} | .. | 6 2 27 | 3 7·2 | 0 12 0
| 21, 22 | | | | |

The Village of Poukiore is situated in the Porewa Valley, about five miles and a half from Hunter ville, on the Murimotu Road, the land being either level or easy sloping ground, whilst the soil is good to first class. The bush is of the usual mixed character—tawa, rata, hinau, rimu, &c.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are village-homestead allotments, open for selection on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection shall be Monday, the eleventh day of March, 1895.

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 provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, and at Hunter ville, and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, 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 and the valuation for improvements (if any), immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st 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 the 1st January, 1896.

8. No person shall apply for or 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 erection of any non-movable building.

11. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject 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 regulations, 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, , 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 applying for the purchase of a lease of Section , Village Settlement.

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 exceeding 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 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.”

A.B.

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

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.