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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 20th day of May, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Isabella O’Rourke, late of New Plymouth, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, widow. Filed on the 21st day of May, 1896.

Alexander Robertson, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, carter. Filed on the 21st day of May, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1896.

THE St. Albans Lodge, No. 17, situated at Auckland, is registered as a branch of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 23rd day of May, 1896.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Crown Lands Notices.

First-class Agricultural Land, Cheviot Estate, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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

THE under-mentioned lands in the Cheviot Estate will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, and the Land Office, Cheviot, on Wednesday, the 24th June, 1896.

If more than one application be received for the same section on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on Friday, the 26th June, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.
CHEVIOT COUNTY.
First-class Land.

These sections are situated on the north-west side of the Homestead Road, adjacent to the Mackenzie Township, the village settlement, and the properties of Messrs. Gick, Houghey, and Lewis, and comprise generally rich agricultural land, in English grass, with a good deal of rushes in places, due to portions of the land being low-lying and subject to being covered with flood-water after heavy rains. Owing to the elevation of these sections being only about 200ft. above sea-level, the proved excellent productiveness and carrying-capacity of the land, the fact that their position is equal to any on Cheviot, that the Cheviot Cheese-factory is only distant from one to three miles, and that the shipping-place at Port Robinson—between which and Wellington and Lyttelton there is constant communication—is distant about seven miles, these sections are admirably adapted for occupation by gardeners, small farmers, and dairymen.

The sections will be disposed of subject to the right of the Crown to cut the new channels for facilitating the discharge of the Jed and branch streams. Full particulars relating to the character and extent of this work may be obtained on application to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and leases for the occupation of the lands will issue subject to the condition that the licensees shall make no claim, and that the Land Board and Government will not allow any claim, in connection with the execution or effect of these works, and that licensees must provide crossings or bridges over the said channels if necessary or required by them for the better occupation or use of the lands.

The successful applicants shall be responsible for and shall refund to the adjacent owners half the cost of all boundary-fences not previously paid for.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE OCCUPATION OF LANDS ON LEASE IN PERPETUITY IN THE CHEVIOT ESTATE.

1. The lease shall be for a term of 999 years, to be reckoned from the next 1st day of January or July following the date thereof, and shall in addition include the period between the date of lease and such day.

2. The yearly rental in respect of such lease shall be the amount equal to 5 per cent. on the capital value of such land, and shall be payable in equal parts, half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st day of January and 1st day of July in each year, to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Christchurch.

3. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed, and shall, immediately after the application has been approved, deposit a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the land applied for. Such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the 1st day of January or July following the date of application. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof.

4. A selector may apply for any number of sections, whether contiguous or not, up to the limit of 640 acres; but he can become the owner or occupier of 640 acres only in contiguous sections, including the land already owned by him. Sections on both sides of a road are considered contiguous or touching each other.

5. A married woman may become the owner of 320 acres of land in contiguous sections, notwithstanding any land that her husband may be entitled to acquire or may hold, and a married woman may also become a lessee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

6. When applications are made on the same day for the same land, or part of the same land, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

7. The lessee must reside on the land selected within one year from the date of selection, and thereafter such residence shall be continuous for a period of ten years. The Land Board may dispense with residence if the lessee reside and continue to reside on lands contiguous to the lands held under lease.

8. 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 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 first-class land, and 10s. per acre on second-class land.

Improvements existing on the land at the time of lease shall be deemed to be improvements made under this clause. Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of 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, or in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, and include the erection of any building.

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 take alternately white crops and green or root crops; and on the removal of the third crop the land must be sown down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers, and be allowed to remain as pasture for at least two years from the harvesting of last crop before being again cropped.