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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

¶ 6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee, 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 will become due on the 1st July, 1897.

8. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each lease shall 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 apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

9. 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.

10. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and such allotment shall be held for his or her 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.

11. 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.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri and Totara Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th April, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned kauri and totara timber, situated in Block XIV., Purua Survey District, and Block V., Tangihua Survey District, will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 12th June, 1896:—

317 kauri-trees, containing 900,000ft.: Upset price, £350.
55 totara-trees, containing 62,000ft.: Upset price, £40.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 24th April, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on and after the 17th June, 1896, at the half-yearly rental noted opposite the run. 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—SMALL GRAZING-RUN NO. 39.

First-class Pastoral Country.

Vegetation, red tussock; low parts of land subject to be flooded; distance about two miles from Mossburn Railway-station. Burdened with valuation for improvements, consisting of fencing, £150.

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 the 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 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 __, 18 __, before me—

__, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land, Canterbury, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 25th April, 1896.

THE under-mentioned land will be open for selection, in terms of sections 107 and 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” upon lease in perpetuity, on and after Wednesday, 24th June, 1896.

If more than one application be received upon the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN COUNTY.—HALSWELL SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Surveyed Land.