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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47]

First-class Land in Waimate County open for Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 1st June, 1896.

THE under-mentioned land will be open for selection on
lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 12th August, 1896.
If more than one application be received on the same day,
then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the
following day, at 10 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.

KAPUA SETTLEMENT.—Waimate County.—Waitaki Survey
District.

First-class Land.

The Kapua Settlement is situated between the Railway-
stations Arno and McLean's, on the Waimate Gorge branch-
line, about five miles from Waimate, with a bi-weekly train-
service. There is a first-class road from the latter place,
and a good metalled road runs through the section. The
section comprises rich, partly-reclaimed swamp of first-class
quality, and partly good limestone land; the intersecting
road marking the division between swamp and hill land.
The land, by its excellent position and quality, is well
adapted for occupation by gardeners, small farmers, and
others. The section is weighted with a sum of £42 16s.,
being valuation of dwelling-house (not fully completed), well,
and boundary fencing; this sum must be paid on allotment,
in addition to the usual deposit and fees.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The land described above is first-class land, and is open
   for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of
   "The Land Act, 1892" (hereinafter referred to as "the said
   Act").

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection
   shall be Wednesday, the 12th day of August, 1896.

3. The rentals stated above shall be the price at which the
   land shall be open for selection.

4. Every applicant shall make the declaration hereinafter
   prescribed, and shall, immediately on being declared success-
   ful, pay 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 fol-
   lowing. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the pre-
   paration of the lease and the registration thereof.

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire or to hold more
   than one section in the settlement, and no person who is the
   owner or occupier of land under the said Act which with the
   land applied for would exceed in area 640 acres shall be
   capable of applying for or holding any section.

6. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one
   year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence
   shall be continuous.

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 erec-
tion 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 succes-
    sion; 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 must be so
    farmed that not less than one-third of the farm be main-
    tained 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 water-
    courses 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 ap-
    plications 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 land 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 be-
lieving 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.

Land in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 26th May, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned rural land
will be submitted for sale at this office on Friday, the
4th September, 1896, at 11 a.m.:—
Parish of Okura, adjoining Wade Village, Section 30,
1 acre 2 roods 30 perches; upset price, £3 7s. 6d.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid
on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-
grant fee £1, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the
part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be
forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null
and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.