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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

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.”

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.

Rural Lands, Otago, for Lease by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 15th January, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, at noon on Wednesday, the 13th March, 1895.

Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block XVII., Coast District, and the land known as Goat Island: Area, 175 acres, more or less; term, fourteen years from 1st January, 1895; upset annual rental, £20.

This area comprises two islands situated at the mouth of the Clutha River, about four miles from Kaitangata, containing about 60 acres good alluvial land, 40 acres light grazing-land, while the balance is sand-hills.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. That not more than two white crops be taken off in succession.

2. That the lessee keeps the gorse in check and prevents the further spreading of same.

3. That if at any time during the currency of the lease the whole or any part of the islands is required for harbour or river-diversion purposes, the lease may be determined without the lessee being entitled to compensation for improvements, but the lessee will be allowed time to remove any such improvements.

Possession will be given on date of sale.

The purchaser of the lease must deposit one half-year’s rent, together with a lease-fee of £1 1s., on the fall of the hammer.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forfeited Sections, Wellington, for Sale by Auction for Cash.

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

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the under-mentioned forfeited sections, town lands, and village allotments will be sold by public auction at the upset prices noted opposite each section, at the Argyle Hall, Hunter ville, on Monday, the 11th day of March, 1895.

SCHEDULE.

TOWN AND VILLAGE ALLOTMENTS.

| 170 | Hunter ville Village Settlement | 0 0 29 | .. | 16 0 0 |
| 171 | Ditto | .. | 0 0 32 | .. | 16 0 0 |
| 239 | " | .. | 0 3 20 | .. | 20 0 0 |
| 240 | " | .. | 0 3 14 | .. | 20 0 0 |
| 242 | " | .. | 0 3 8 | .. | 20 0 0 |
| 243 | " | .. | 0 0 38 | .. | 16 0 0 |
| 244 | " | .. | 0 1 1 | .. | 10 0 0 |
| 246 | " | .. | 0 1 10 | .. | 16 0 0 |
| 247 | " | .. | 0 1 15 | .. | 16 0 0 |
| 248 | " | .. | 0 1 16 | .. | 16 0 0 |
| 9 | West Waitapu Village Settlement | 1 0 0 | .. | 5 0 0 |

One-fifth of the purchase-money, together with the amount of the valuation for improvements (if any), to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void. There are no restrictions or limitations imposed upon purchasers of these sections.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.