July 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1131

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a
value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of
the land;
(c.) And within six years from the date of his lease, to a
value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of
the land;
and in addition thereto shall, within six years from the date
of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent
character to the value of £1 for every acre of land.

Improvements existing on the land at the time of lease
shall be deemed to be improvements made under this clause.
Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean
and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of 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, or in any way improving the
character or fertility of the soil, and include the erection
of any building.

11. The Government reserves a right of erecting telegraph
    or telephone lines over the lands during the term of lease,
    and a right of ingress and egress to such lines when erected.

12. A right to search for and take gravel for making or
    maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is
    reserved; payment to be made for surface damage only.

13. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all
    live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon
    the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as
    fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other
    noxious plants.

14. The lessee must take alternately white and root crops;
    and on the removal of the third crop the land must be sown
    down with good cultivated permanent grasses and clovers,
    and be allowed to remain as pasture for at least two years
    from the harvesting of last crop before being again cropped.

15. The lessee must not cut the cultivated grass for hay or
    seed the first year of the course.

16. At all times during the lease the land must be so
    farmed that not less than one-third of the farm be main-
    tained in permanent pasture. But the conditions as to crop-
    ping shall not apply to sections of five acres or under.

17. The lessee must not burn any straw grown upon the
    land.

18. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from
    weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and water-
    courses which now are or may be upon the land, and the
    Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have the power at any
    time to enter upon and make any drain through the land
    that he may deem necessary.

19. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any
    of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the
    trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and
    sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and
    keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses,
    it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to
    have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same
    from the lessee.

20. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in
    good order and repair.

21. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and
    assessments during the term.

22. 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.

23. No lessee shall hold more than one lot, except as
    otherwise provided.

24. 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 pro-
    vision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any
    other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular
    case.

DECLARATION ON APPLYING FOR A VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD
LEASE UNDER "THE LAND ACT, 1892," AND "THE
CHEVIOT ESTATE DISPOSITION ACT, 1893."

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 a lease of land
   forming part of the Cheviot Estate.
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, including the lands now applied for, I am not the
   owner, tenant, 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 640
   acres (in the case of a married woman, 320 acres) of first-
   class land.

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—C.D., a Justice of the Peace in and for the
Colony of New Zealand.

SUBURBAN LANDS FOR SALE FOR CASH ON APPLICATION.

Cheviot Survey District.—First-class Land.

Section 36, Block VII., Cheviot Survey District, com-
prises low ploughable downs; formation, black soil on clay;
fairly grassed with tussock, and surface-sown with culti-
vated grasses. There is a good wire fence running along
the south-western boundary. Situated in the North Deer
Park, within 20 chains of the township.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in the Town of Opunake for Lease.

Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 20th June, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-men-
tioned Crown lands will be submitted to public
auction, at the Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on
Wednesday, the 14th August, 1895, at 12 o'clock noon.

SCHEDULE.
TOWN OF OPUNAKE.

Term of lease, seven years. Lessee to cut gorse during first
year of lease, and keep it cut during the term. Lessee is
given right to remove fencing erected by him, at the end of
the term.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

One half-year's rent and lease-fee of £1 1s. to be paid on
the fall of the hammer, and lease to be executed within
thirty days of lessee being called upon to do so, otherwise
the deposit of half-year's rent and lease-fee to be absolutely
forfeited, and the sale to be null and void.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Town of Opunake for Sale.

Crown Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 20th June, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land
will be offered at public auction, for cash, at the
above-named office, on Wednesday, the 14th August, 1895,
at 12 o'clock noon.

SCHEDULE.

Section 9, Block XXXV., Town of Opunake, 1 rood.
Upset price, £10.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of
the hammer, and the balance, together with £1 Crown-grant
fee, within thirty days from date of sale, otherwise the one-
fifth deposited to be absolutely forfeited, and the sale to be
null and void.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.