Jan. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 45

SCHEDULE.

Section 15, Block III., is situated at the junction of Dreyer's Rock and Barton Roads, eastward of Mauriceville Railway-station, and consists of undulating land, with good soil, the formation being clay, papa, and sandstone. The timber is chiefly rimu, rata, tawa, hinau, &c., with an undergrowth of supplejack, rangiora, &c.

41 | VI. | 158 0 0 | 2 0 0 | 316 0 0

This section lies to the eastward of the Mauriceville Railway-station, from which it is distant about seven miles and a half, and is approached therefrom partly by dray- and partly by horse-roads. The section consists of fair to good soil on a limestone and papa formation, and is covered with mixed bush.

HASTWELL VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

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| 22 | .. | 0 2 32 | .. | 5 0 0 |
| 25 | .. | 0 3 20 | .. | 5 0 0 |
| 29 | .. | 1 0 0 | .. | 5 0 0 |

The Hastwell Village Settlement is situated on the main coach-road from Masterton to Eketahuna, and adjacent to the Wi Waka Section of the Wellington-Napier Railway. It is about two miles from Mangamahoe, nine miles from Eketahuna, and twenty-one miles from Masterton.

MANGAMAHOE VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

| 12 | .. | 1 0 0 | .. | 5 0 0 |
| 13 | .. | 1 0 0 | .. | 5 0 0 |
| 14 | .. | 1 0 0 | .. | 5 0 0 |

This village is situated at the railway-station in the Kopuaranga District, Forty-mile Bush.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Mangaweka Village Homestead Settlement open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for application on and after Wednesday, the 13th day of March, 1895.

SCHEDULE.

MANGAWEKA VILLAGE HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are divided into 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 Wednesday, the 13th 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 Ohingaiti, 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 No. , 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 entitled "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.