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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

7. The lessee shall put on the land comprised in his lease substantial improvements as under :—
   (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, to a value equal to 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
   (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
   (c.) And thereafter, but within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
   and in addition thereto shall, within six years from the date of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent character to the value of £1 for every acre of land.

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.

8. The lessee must fence the land leased with a ring-fence within the second year of the term; and such fence must be sufficient to comply in all respects with “The Fencing Act, 1895,” or any other law to regulate the fencing of land which shall for the time being be in force.

9. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious plants.

10. The lessee must not take more than three crops, one of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succession; and either with or immediately after a third crop of any kind the land must be sown down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers, and be allowed to remain as pasture for at least three years from the harvesting of last crop before being again cropped.

11. At all times during the lease the land, if the area of the whole exceed 10 acres, must be so farmed that not less than one-third of the farm be maintained in permanent pasture.

12. The lessee must not cut the cultivated grass or clovers for hay or seed during the first year from the time of sowing as aforesaid.

13. The lessee must not burn any straw grown upon the land.

14. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses which now are or may be upon the land, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands or any Crown Lands Ranger of the district shall have the power at any time to enter upon and make any drain through the land that he may deem necessary.

15. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioner to have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the lessee.

16. All buildings, fences, and other improvements erected upon the land shall be kept in good order and repair.

17. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and assessments during the term.

18. Subject as aforesaid, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and regulations made thereunder with respect to applications for and the grant of leases in perpetuity, shall apply, so far as applicable, to all applications for leases under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894.”

Schedule.—Declaration on applying for a Lease under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894.”

I, A.B., , 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 for Settlements Act, 1894,” am applying for the purchase of a lease.
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, including the lands now applied for, I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any land acquired under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” or of any lands anywhere in the colony, exceeding in the whole 640 acres of land (or 320 acres in the case of a married woman).
5. That I have not, within one year from the date hereof, surrendered a 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 , 189 , before me—C.D., a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”—Sitting of Court adjourned.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the Native Land Court advertised to take place at Woodville on the 15th day of January, 1896, has been adjourned to the 20th day of February, 1896, at the same place.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 8th January, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Nelson on the 5th day of February, 1896, to hear and determine the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written, in respect of which applications have been received by the Registrar, and all such other matters as may be lawfully brought before it.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON, Registrar.

[Wellington, 96-4.]

SCHEDULE.
PARTITION.

APPLICATION FOR DEFINITION OF RELATIVE INTERESTS.

APPLICATION FOR PROBATE.