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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 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 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 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.”

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.

Application to the Validation Court under “The Native
Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893.”

IN THE VALIDATION COURT,
GISBORNE.

In the matter of the Pakarae No. 1 Block.

A. THE Bank of New South Wales, duly incorporated in
New Zealand under an Act of the General Assembly
intituled “The Bank of New South Wales Act, 1861,” applies
for the validation of the interests acquired by the said bank,
as appears by the documents of title hereinafter mentioned,
of sixteen Natives in all that parcel of land situate in the
Gisborne Native Land Court District, containing by admeasurement
800 acres, more or less, being the land called
or known as the Pakarae No. 1 Block.

B. The applicant desires to appear before the Validation
Court, at Gisborne, on Monday, the 10th day of August,
1896, at the hour of half-past 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or
so soon thereafter as this application can be heard.

C. The nature of the transaction proposed for validation
is a memorandum of transfer bearing date the 14th day of
October, 1885, from the Natives hereinafter named to one
Allan McDonald of their shares and interests in the said
Pakarae No. 1 Block, for the total consideration of £64.

The Natives executing such transfer are:—

1. Winiata Riki. 9. Mihi Pahura.
2. Hone Hera. 10. Rawiri Turanga.
3. Hamuera Hinaki. 11. Tame Pahura.
4. Rapata Wari. 12. Hira Taruke.
5. Rawiri Karaha. 13. Pipi Haokai.
6. Arapeta Rangiuiua. 14. Parawira Kahaki.
7. Heni Rohahiwi. 15. Hoani Piwaka.
8. Rutene Kuhukuhu. 16. Ani Piwaka, or Karaka.

D. The interest in the land which is intended to be
alienated by the said memorandum of transfer is the fee-simple
of the whole of the interests in the said block of the
above-mentioned Maori alienors; and the title to the said
block of the said alienors at the time of the said alienation
was a certificate of title under “The Native Land Court
Act, 1880,” bearing date the 14th day of February, 1881,
issued in favour of ninety-two owners; since which date an
order of partition dated the 6th day of September, 1883, was
made by the Native Land Court of New Zealand, awarding
the Pakarae No. 1c Block, being a portion of the Pakarae
No. 1 Block, to the said Maori alienors and sixty-six others.

E. The applicant seeks to obtain, through the aid of the
said Court, an estate in fee-simple in the said land.

F. The applicant claims to be invested with the title he
now holds through the following documents of title:—

(1.) The said memorandum of transfer mentioned in
paragraph c hereof.

(2.) Deed of mortgage, dated the 28th day of October,
1887, from the said Allan McDonald to the Bank
of New South Wales.

(3.) Deed of conveyance, dated the 6th June, 1890, from
the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Gisborne, to
the Bank of New South Wales.

G. The address for service of the applicant is at the office
of Messrs. Nolan and Skeet, solicitors, off Gladstone Road,
Gisborne.

H. The applicant desires that copies of this application
shall be served upon such of the aforesaid Maori alienors as
are living, and upon the representatives of such of them as
are dead.

Dated at Gisborne, this 24th day of June, 1896.

THE BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES
(By their Solicitors,
NOLAN AND SKEET).

To the Registrar of the Validation Court, Gisborne. 656

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”—Karioi Native Reserve.—
In the Native Appellate Court, New Zealand.

In the matter of the Karioi Native Reserve, and of an appeal
by Remana Nutana against a decision of the Native Land
Court, dated the 15th day of April, 1896, charging the
said land with payment to the Surveyor-General of the
sum of £87 7s. 7d.

NOTICE is hereby given that, by notice to the Registrar
and with leave of the Chief Judge, the said appeal
has been withdrawn, and that such withdrawal has been
approved by the Chief Judge.

Dated at Auckland, this 26th day of June, 1896.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
Registrar.