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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11]

Half-year's rent, together with lease-fee, £1 1s., must be paid
on the fall of the hammer.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments, Wellington, open for Selection
upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1896.

THE under-mentioned lands will be open for selection on
lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the
18th March, 1896.

SCHEDULE.
FIRST-CLASS LAND.

HOROWHENUA COUNTY.—HOROWHENUA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD
SETTLEMENT.

38 | 10 0 0 | 5 2·4 | 1 6 0

This section is weighted with £12 10s. for improvements.
It is situated on the main road and railway-line, about a
mile and a half south of Levin. The soil is good, on a clay-
and-shingle formation, and the land is perfectly level. The
timber has been felled at a cost of £12 10s.

PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MANGARAMARAMA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD
SETTLEMENT.

83 | 11 2 16 | 4 9·6 | 1 7 10
84 | 16 3 32 | 4 0 | 1 13 11

Section 83 is weighted with £7 14s. for improvements.
These sections are situated about two miles distant from
Mangatainoka, and comprise rich alluvial land, perfectly
level, portions being subject to floods. On Section 83 four
acres have been partly grassed, and on Section 84 four acres
have been felled only; the remainder of each section being
covered with heavy mixed timber.

KAIWITEA COUNTY.—KAREWAREWA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SETTLE-
MENT EXTENSION.

23A | 100 0 0 | 1 3·6 | 3 5 0
23B | 100 0 0 | 1 3·6 | 3 5 0

These sections are situated in the Marton No. 1 Farm-
homestead Settlement Block, distant about four miles from
the Township of Rangiwahia, and are approached by a dray-
road which is now under construction, and which will shortly
be completed. The soil is good, on a papa formation, and
covered with mixed bush, consisting chiefly of pines, maire,
and hinau, with some totara, and undergrowth of rangiora,
kotukutuku, houi, &c. There are about twenty acres flat in
each section, the remainder, to back boundary, being sloping
ridges with a northern aspect. Both sections are well
watered.

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 18th March, 1896.

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, Wel-
   ington, and leases will be issued in accordance with the
   provisions of Part I. as aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occu-
   pation, 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 valua-
   tion 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, 1897.

8. No person shall apply for or hold more than one allot-
   ment, 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 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 substan-
    tial 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 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 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
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."

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.

Kauri and Totara Timber in Auckland Land District for
Sale by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th February, 1896.

THE under-mentioned clumps of dead timber, situated
in the Puhinui State Forest, will be offered for sale
by public auction at this office, on Tuesday, 7th April, 1896,
at 11 o'clock a.m.:—

KAURI.

1 | 243 | 486,000 | 182 5 0
2 | 575 | 2,147,000 | 805 2 6
3 | 686 | 2,063,000 | 773 12 6
4 | 283 | 556,000 | 208 10 0
5 | 796 | 4,776,000 | 1,791 0 0
6 | 559 | 1,118,000 | 419 5 0
7 | 161 | 483,000 | 181 2 6

TOTARA.

8 | 28 | .. | 28 0 0
9 | 42 | .. | 42 0 0
10 | 52 | .. | 52 0 0
11 | 82 | .. | 82 0 0
12 | 42 | .. | 42 0 0