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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, Wellington, and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. as 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, 1897.

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 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 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.

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Auction Sale of Pastoral Licenses and Lease of Reserve, Westland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 10th February, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses of the pastoral runs and lease of the public reserve set out below will be offered by public auction at the Land Office, Hokitika, on Wednesday, the 8th day of April next, at the hour of 2 o’clock in the afternoon, at the prices and for the terms given, and subject to any rights of renewal or resumption as may be prescribed by the Land Acts or other constituted authority, and subject to the necessary declarations being taken. Maps may be seen at the Land Office, Hokitika, where other full particulars as to conditions of sale, license, &c., may be ascertained.

Payments to be made on the fall of the hammer, and consist, with regard to the said licenses, of six months’ rent, and the said lease, of twelve months’ rent, in advance, and license- and lease-fees of £1 1s.

Run No. 39, 7,000 acres, comprises nearly the whole of Mount Tikinga, on eastern shores of Lake Brunner; cattle-feed country; accessible by Greenstone Road and Bell Hill Road; railway skirts the eastern boundary of the run.

Run No. 46, 5,000 acres, comprising the whole of the Valley of the Turnbull River between the Ino River and the eastern edge of the seaboard flats; bush-feed; access by Turnbull River Road and bed of river.

Run No. 92, 5,000 acres, on Miserable Ridge, an outlying spur from Mount Bowen, between Hokitika and Mikonui Rivers; open mountain slopes, well grassed, facing the sun; average altitude, 3,600ft.; sheep country; access by well-cut bush-track from Whitcombe Road, near Rapid Creek, on south bank of Hokitika River.

Run No. 195, 3,000 acres, comprising the bulk of the upper valley of the Mikonui River; good cattle-feed; a few grassed flats on river; access by Mikonui Road, via Totara Valley, and by open river-bed.

Reserve No. 269, at the mouth of Turnbull River, on south side; fair land, partly cleared; remainder light bush.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town Lands in Southland for Lease under the Provisions of Section 111, Subsection (2), of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill,
8th February, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases for seven years of the under-mentioned town lands will be submitted to public auction, in the District Land Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 25th day of March, 1896, at noon.

SCHEDULE.
WALLACETOWN.