APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 667

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.)

• 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.

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.

Education Reserve, Oamaru Survey District, for Lease by Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 7th April, 1896.

THE lease of the under-mentioned section will be offered for sale by public auction on Thursday, the 14th May, 1896, immediately after the ballot for sections in the Ardgowan Estate is concluded, at the Weir Street Hall, Oamaru.

SCHEDULE.

EDUCATION RESERVE, OAMARU SURVEY DISTRICT.—ARDGOWAN ESTATE.

Section 134, Block II.: Area, 40 acres; upset half-yearly rental, £12 10s.

Term, fourteen years from 1st July, 1896.

The purchaser must pay half-year’s rent and the lease-fee of £1 1s. upon the fall of the hammer.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 15th April, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Native Land Court which was notified to sit at Otorohanga on the 28th day of April, 1896, has been adjourned to the 12th day of May, 1896.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
Registrar.

[Auckland, 96–27.]

Application for Letters of Administration with Will annexed.

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 13th April, 1896.

In the matter of the will of WIREMU RUPA, late of Te Awahou, Rotorua, deceased.

APPLICATION having been made by Hiria Haua that letters of administration with the aforesaid will annexed be granted:

It is hereby notified that all persons opposing such application must lodge a caveat, in manner prescribed, within two calendar months after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

JAMES W. BROWNE,
Registrar.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT,
NEW ZEALAND.

IN the matter of the land in the Waikato District known as “Opuatia No. 5A,” heretofore held under a Crown grant dated the 14th day of June, 1866, containing 2,634 acres.

At a sitting of the Native Land Court held at Mercer on the 10th day of April, 1896, before William Gilbert Mair, Esq., Judge, and Nikorima Poutotara, Assessor.

Whereas the names of the Natives set out in the Schedule attached hereto, being members of the body corporate known by the name of “The Opuatia No. 5A Corporation,” have this day been lodged in the Court by the Chairman as the Committee duly nominated and elected by the said body corporate:

It is hereby ordered and declared that the persons named in the said Schedule are duly appointed a Committee, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

As witness my hand and the seal of the Court, this 10th day of April, 1896.

W. G. MAIR,
Judge.

SCHEDULE.

Hanareta Hira te Aho,
Paora Pomare,
Te Ewe Hohua,
Hira te Aho, and
Henare Kaihau.