APRIL 9.]

New Plymouth Savings-bank Balance-sheet for 1895.

S TATEMENT of Receipts and Payments of the New Plymouth Savings-bank for the Year ending the 31st December, 1895.

Dr. RECEIPTS.
£ s. d.
To Balance, 1st January, 1895 ... 73 13 6
Bank of New Zealand, 1895 ... 170 16 6
Post Office ... 514 11 8
Bank of New Zealand, Deposit Account ... 200 0 0
Received from depositors ... 3,046 6 5
interest ... 323 10 6
Interest, securities ... 465 18 9
Bank Deposit Account... 10 0 0
Post Office ... 14 9 10
Securities paid off ... 685 0 0
£5,504 7 2

Cr. PAYMENTS.
£ s. d.
By Balance, Bank of New Zealand ... 452 10 7
Post Office ... 429 1 6
Depositors ... 2,619 16 0
interest ... 323 10 6
Loans ... 1,070 0 0
Management ... 500 0 0
Audit ... 90 0 0
Charges ... 3 3 0
£5,504 7 2

STATEMENT of ASSETS and LIABILITIES of New Plymouth Savings-bank for the Year ending 31st December, 1895.

ASSETS.
£ s. d.
To Cash, Bank of New Zealand ... 452 10 7
Post Office ... 429 1 6
Securities ... 7,170 0 0
Bank furniture ... 19 10 3
Interest due and accrued ... 167 9 3
£8,238 11 7
LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
By 347* depositors ... 7,390 8 8
Balance to credit ... 848 2 11
£8,238 11 7

R. PARRIS, Vice-President.
H. WESTON,
A. SHUTTLEWORTH, ROBT. G. BAUCHOPE, Trustees.
R. COCK,
W. L. NEWMAN,
PAUL C. MORTON, Manager.

Audited and found correct.
H. A. CHOLWILL, Auditor.

• Taken from Registrar-General's return.

Crown Lands Notices.

Small Grazing-run, Canterbury, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 7th April, 1896.
N OTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on and after Wednesday, the 20th May, 1896, at the annual rental noted below. In case of more than one application for the run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

WAIMATE COUNTY.--NIMROD AND WAIHAO SURVEY DISTRICTS.
First-class Pastoral Country.

This run is situated on the dividing-range between the Hakateramea and Waihao Rivers, inland of Waimate, and comprises high open hilly country, with generally broad and flat ridges, intersected by deep gullies. The soil varies in quality from fair to good—that on the main tops and southern faces having a cold appearance, whilst other parts are very rocky. The vegetation comprises the ordinary silver-tussock and other native grasses, with an admixture of English grasses; snow-grass is common on the higher lands and southern faces. The general elevation of the country ranges from about 1,500ft. to about 3,500ft. above sea-level. The distance from Waimate by the Pentland Hills road is about twenty-eight miles, all but about three miles of the distance being practicable for drays. The run is also connected with the Sandhurst Railway-station by the Hakateramea Valley and branch roads. The land is adapted only for pastoral purposes, and during the winter is subject to heavy falls of snow.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by "The Land Act, 1892," section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on small grazing-run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.*

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year's rental by the end of the first year, two years' rental by the end of the second year, and four years' rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year's rent and £1 1s. for the lease, and the sum of £233 7s., being the value of fencing and sheep-yards, must be paid immediately the application is declared successful; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st March, 1897.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving the access to the land.

DECLARATION.

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 desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.†
3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not, directly or indirectly, for the use of any other person or persons whatever.
4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.
5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.
6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.
   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."
   (Signature.)
   Declared at , this day of , 189 , before me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.
   J. W. A. MARCHANT,
   Commissioner of Crown Lands.

• Owing to the altitude of the country and the absence of a suitable homestead-site, the Land Board will be prepared to consider an application from the successful applicant for exemption from residence in terms of sections 142 and 143 of "The Land Act, 1892."
  † Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.