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Villages-homestead Allotment, Cheviot County, open for
Selection.

District Land Office,
Christchurch, 30th June, 1896.

T HE under-mentioned village-homestead allotment will
be open for selection on leas in perputuity, at the
Distrct Lands and Sruvey Office, Christchurch, and the
Lands Office, Cheviot, on Wednesday, the 26th August, 1896.
If more than one application be received on the same day.
then the order of selection shall be decided by a lot on
the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and
Sruvey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.

CHEVIOT COUNTY.

Surveyed First-class Land.

| Locality. | Section. | Block. | Area. | Lease in Per- |
| | | | | petuity. |
| | | | | Rent | Half- |
| | | | | per | yearly |
| | | | | Acre. | Rent. |
| | | | A. | R. | P. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
| Mackenzie Suburbs.. | 8 | XII. | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |

This section is situated in the suburban village settle
ment on the west side of the Township of Mackenzie; it
has frontage to Steward Road, and is bounded on the south
by a plantation. It comprises flat agricultural land, with
from 12in. to 18in. of black soil, at an elevation of about
200ft. above sea-level.

The successful applicant 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 OF LEASE OF VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD LANDS.

1. The lands to be dealt with under these conditions are
   first-class lands, and are village-homestead allotment, open
   for selection on lease in perputuity, under the provisions of
   " The Land Act, 1892 " (hereinafter referred to as " the said
   Act "), and " The Cheviot Estate** Disposition Act, 1893. "

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection
   shall be Wednesday, the 26th day of August, 1896.

3. The rental stated opposite each allotment shall be the
   price at which it shall be open for selection.

4. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed.
   and shall, immediately after the application has be**en ap
   proved or declared successful at the ballot, pay a sum equal
   to one half-year's rent of the land applicd for. Such pay
   ment shall be in discharge of the half-year's rent due on
   the 1st day of January or July following the day of applica
   tion. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the prepa
   ration of the lease and the registration there**of.

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

6. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupa
   tion, and condition in life (namely, whether married or
   single), and shall make the declaration prescribed.

7. Each applicant shall also undertake to pay the first
   half-year's rent, together with the lease and registration fe**e
   off £1 1s., immediately upon being declared the successful
   applica**nt.

8. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the
   1st days of January and July in each year.

9. The lesse 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 lesse reside and
   continue to reside on lands continguous to the land held
   under lease.

10. The lesse 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 2\frac{1}{2} per cent. of the price of the
land ;

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a
value equal to another 2\frac{1}{2} 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 2\frac{1}{2} 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.

Improvements existing on the land at the time of lease
shall be de**emed to be improvements made under this clause**.

[No. 63

Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean
and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of gorse
broom, sweetbriar, or scrubs, cultivation, plantings gardens.
fencing, drainage, making of road, sinking of well or water-tanks.
constructing water-races, she**eps-dips, making embankments
or protective works of any kind, or in any way imroving the
character or fertililty of the soild, and include the ere**ction of
any building.

11. The Government reserves a right of erecting telegraph
    or telephone lines over the lands during the term of lease
    and a right of ingress and egress to such lines when erected.

12. A right to search for and take gravel for making or
    maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is
    reserved ; payment to be made for surface damage only.

13. The lesse 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.

14. The lesse must take alternately white and root crops ;
    and on the removal of the third crop the land must be sown
    down with good cultivated permanent 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.

15. The lesse must not cut the cultivated grass for hay or
    se**ed the first year of the cours**e.

16. 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. But the conditions as to crop
    ping shall not apply to sections of five acres or under.

17. The lesse must not burn any straw grown upon the
    land.

18. The lesse must once a year properly clean, clear from
    we**eds, and ke**ep open all cre**eks, drains, ditches, and water
    courses which now are or may be upon the land, and the
    Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have the power at any
    time to enter upon and make any drain through the land
    that he may de**em necessary.

19. In the event of the lesse 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 clearing, clearing from we**eds, and
    ke**eping open all cre**eks, drains, ditches, and watercourses.
    it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to
    have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same
    from the lesse**.

20. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in
    good order and repair.

21. The lesse shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and
    assessments during the term.

22. No lesse shall subdivide, sublet, or transf**er the land
    held by him under these regulations, except under and sub
    ject to the provisions of Part I. of the** said Act.

23. No lesse shall hold more than one lot, except as
    otherwise provided.

24. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable.
    shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regula
    tions, and to the applications and leases to be made and
    issu**ed thereunder, and generally to the interests created.
    and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are
    thereby affected ; and the mention of any particular pro
    vision of the said Act shall not be de**emed to exclude any
    other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular
    case.

DCLARATION ON APPLYING FOR A VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD LEASE
UNDER " The Land Act, 1892," AND " The Cheviot
Estate Disposition Act, 1893.**

I, A.B., do solemnly and sinc**erely declare**—

1. That I am of the age of sevente**en years and upwa**rds.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of
   " The Land Act, 1892," am applicing for a lease of land
   forming part of the Cheviot Estate.

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 applicd 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 lands anywhere in the colony exce**eding in the whole
   640 acres (in the case of a married woman, 320 acre**s) of
   first-class land.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtu**e of an Act of
the General Ass**embly of New Zealand intituled " The
Justices of the Peace Act, 1882. "

A.B.

Declared at . , this day of , 18 ,
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.