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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

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 whom-
   soever. 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 sub-
    stantial 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 person 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 , Mangaramarama 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 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 , 189 , before
   me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of
   New Zealand.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland for Sale by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 26th January, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned suburban
and rural lands will be submitted for sale by public
auction, at this office, on Friday, the 22nd day of March,
1895, at 11 a.m.:—
Town of Hamilton West: Lot 58, 1 rood 13 perches; upset
price, £6 12s. 6d.
Weymouth Suburbs (Manukau County): Lot 39, 9 acres
3 roods 8 perches; upset price, £19 12s. Lots 43 and 44,
each 5 acres; upset price per lot, £10.
Paparoa Parish (Otamatea County): Section N.E. part 76,
10½ acres; upset price, £7 17s. 6d. Open land, about six
miles from Pahi, and intersected by the main road.
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 one-fifth paid by way
of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of
the land be null and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 23rd January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at
the District Lands Office, on and after the 20th March, 1895,
at the half-yearly rental noted opposite the runs. In case
of more than one application for the runs on the same day,
priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the follow-
ing day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—LINKWATER SURVEY
DISTRICT.

First-class Pastoral Country.

These runs adjoin the Town of Picton; they are well
watered, and are mostly covered with bush, principally
birch.

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 below.
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 be
   paid immediately the application is declared successful; 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, 1896.
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 exer-
   cised without compensation.
   NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen
   years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving
   the access to the land.

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 pur-
   chaser 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 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."
   (Signature.)
   Declared at , this day of , 189 ,
   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.