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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

Officiating Ministers for 1896.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1896.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend William Charles Wood.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend John Griffiths.

Baptists.

Pastor E. H. Soper.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Branches of Friendly Society registered.

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

THE Court Waihi, No. 7597, situated at Waihi (Upper Thames), and the Court Townley, No. 8292, situated at Gisborne, are registered as branches of the Auckland District Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 23rd day of June, 1896.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Crown Lands Notices.

Pastoral Runs, Hawke’s Bay, opened for Selection on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 22nd June, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral runs will be open for selection for lease on and after Wednesday, the 12th August, 1896, at this office.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Runs.

The land is broken and of poor quality, carrying fern, with bush in gullies; well watered, and fit for grazing purposes, though the carrying-capacity of the land is light. The runs are accessible from Wairoa, distant about twenty-three miles.

Run No. 9 has some land which would carry good grass, but it exists in patches.

Run No. 10 contains about 6,000 acres of pumice land, with clay subsoil, and little or no vegetation upon it.

Conditions.

The term of license is twenty-one years, and commences upon the day of selection. Half-year’s rent, and license-fee of £1 1s., to be paid at time of application. A declaration in accordance with Schedule E. of “The Land Act, 1892,” is required from intending purchasers.

T. HUMPHRIES.
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Lands, Westland, open for Lease on Application.

Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 8th May, 1896.

IN accordance with section 197 of “The Land Act, 1892,” I hereby give notice that the under-mentioned pastoral runs, having been submitted to public auction and not sold, will be open for application at the upset rental, on and after the 30th day of June, 1896:—

Run No. 39, Lake Brunner, 7,000 acres.

Run No. 92, Miserable Ridge, 5,000 acres.

Subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Term, ten years; annual rental, £1 per 1,000 acres.

Possession to be given on the date of granting of application.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Second-class Pastoral Country, Canterbury, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 16th May, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on and after Wednesday, the 8th July, 1896, at the yearly rental noted below. In case of more than one application being received on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

ASHLEY COUNTY, WAITOHI AND WAIPARA SURVEY DISTRICTS.—
PART OF PATOA SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

Sections 36577, 36579, 36580, and 36581: 3,846 acres 3 roods; annual rent, £133 11s. 4d.

Locality and Description of Run.

These sections are situated between the Hurunui and Waitohi Rivers, to the west of the Northern Railway, near Medbury Station, and comprise open plain light stony land, partly covered with stunted manuka scrub. The elevation is from 850ft. to 950ft. above sea-level, and, except where covered with manuka, the country is fairly well grassed with tussock.

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, with approval of the Land Board, 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

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 __, 189, before me—
__, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation.
  † Here specify.

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