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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

AGRICULTURAL LANDS OPEN FOR SELECTION ON LEASE IN PERPETUITY.

| Section. | Block. | Area. | Capital Value. | | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent. |
| | | | Per Acre. | Total Value. | | |
| | | | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Lowry Peaks Survey District.—First-class Agricultural Land. | | | | | | |
| 18| XII. | 338 0 0|6 14 0| 2,264 12 0|6 8·4| 56 12 4 |

Between 200ft. and 300ft. above sea-level; 75 acres flat,
balance undulating agricultural land, 7in. to 9in. good soil;
good English grass has been down eight years; well watered
at this season. The section is weighted with a sum of £54,
being value of boundary and subdivision fencing and planta-
tion, which sum must be paid on allotment.

These improvements are exclusive of the original Govern-
ment boundary and subdivision fences which were on the
land when this section was disposed of in November, 1893.

2| XVI. | 298 0 0|6 11 0| 1,951 18 0|6 6·6| 48 15 11

Between 200ft. and 450ft. above sea-level; undulating
agricultural land, 7in. to 9in. good soil; in English grass,
been down fifteen years; watered at this season. The
section is weighted with a sum of £67, being value of
boundary and subdivision fencing and cultivation, which
sum must be paid on allotment.

These improvements are exclusive of the original Govern-
ment boundary-fence which was on the land when this
section was disposed of in November, 1893.

Cheviot Survey District.—Second-class Agricultural Land.

2| VII. | 100 1 0|5 0 0| 501 5 0|5 0 | 12 4 8

Well-grassed downs, undulating, mostly ploughable, broken
by gullies; good black soil, surface-sown; two miles by good
dray-road from homestead.

The successful applicants shall be responsible for and
shall refund to the adjacent owners half the cost of all
boundary-fences not previously paid for.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE OCCUPATION OF LANDS ON LEASE IN PERPETUITY.

1. The lease shall be for a term of 999 years, to be reckoned
   from the next 1st day of January or July following the date
   thereof, and shall in addition include the period between the
   date of lease and such day.

2. The yearly rental in respect of such lease shall be the
   amount equal to 5 per cent. on the capital value of such land,
   and shall be payable in equal parts, half-yearly, in advance,
   on the 1st day of January and 1st day of July in each year,
   to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Christchurch.

3. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed,
   and shall, immediately after the application has been ap-
   proved, deposit a sum equal to one half-year's rent of the
   land applied for. Such payment shall be in discharge of
   the half-year's rent due on the 1st day of January or July
   following the date of application. He shall also pay the
   sum of £1 1s. for the preparation of the lease and the regis-
   tration thereof.

4. A selector may apply for any number of sections,
   whether contiguous or not, up to the limit of 640 acres;
   but he can become the owner or occupier of 640 acres only
   in contiguous sections, including the land already owned by
   him. Sections on both sides of a road are considered con-
   tiguous or touching each other.

5. A married woman may become the owner of 320 acres
   of land in contiguous sections, notwithstanding any land
   that her husband may be entitled to acquire or may hold,
   and a married woman may also become a lessee under a will
   or by virtue of an intestacy.

6. When applications are made on the same day for the
   same land, or part of the same land, then the order of selec-
   tion shall be decided by ballot.

7. The lessee must reside on the land selected within one
   year from the date of selection, and thereafter such resi-
   dence shall be continuous for a period of ten years. The
   Land Board may dispense with residence if the lessee reside
   and continue to reside on lands contiguous to the lands held
   under lease.

8. The lessee shall put on the land comprised in his lease
   substantial improvements as under:—
   (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease to a value
   equal to 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
   (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 first-class land,
and 10s. per acre on second-class 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 em-
bankments 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.

9. 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.

10. The lessee must take alternately white crops and
    green or root crops; and on the removal of the third crop
    the land must be sown down with good permanent culti-
    vated 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.

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

12. At all times during the lease the land must be so
    farmed that not less than one-third of the farm shall be
    maintained in permanent pasture.

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

14. 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
    Land Board shall have the power at any time to enter upon
    and make any drain through the land that it may deem
    necessary.

15. 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.

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

17. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and as-
    sessments during the term.

18. The Government reserves a right of ingress and egress
    to the telegraph-line which passes through some of the lands
    to be disposed of.

19. A right to search for and take gravel for making or
    maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is re-
    served. Payment to be made for surface damage only.

20. The lease shall contain a clause providing that the
    lessee shall hold the land comprised in his lease subject to
    the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892," and "The Cheviot
    Estate Disposition Act, 1893," unless otherwise provided by
    these regulations.

DECLARATION ON APPLYING FOR A 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 form-
   ing 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 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.

• 320 acres in the case of a married woman.