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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 64

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

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

THE under-mentioned village-homestead allotment 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 26th 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 11 a.m., at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.
CHEVIOT COUNTY.
Surveyed First-class Land.

| Locality. | Section. | Block. | Area. | Lease in Per-
| | | | | petuity. |
| | | | | Rent | Half-
| | | | | per | yearly
| | | | | Acre. | Rent. |
| | | | | 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 allotments, open
   for selection on lease in perpetuity, 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 been ap-
   proved or declared successful at the ballot, pay a sum equal
   to one half-year's rent of the land applied 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 thereof.

5. When applications are made on the same day for the
   same land, or part of the same land, then the order of selec-
   tion 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 fee
   of £1 1s., immediately upon being declared the successful
   applicant.

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

9. 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 land held
   under lease.

10. 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 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.

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 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.

14. The lessee 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 lessee must not cut the cultivated grass for hay or
    seed the first year of the course.

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 lessee must not burn any straw grown upon the
    land.

18. 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 shall have the power at any
    time to enter upon and make any drain through the land
    that he may deem necessary.

19. 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 Commissioner of Crown Lands to
    have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same
    from the lessee.

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

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

22. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer 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 lessee 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
    issued 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 deemed to exclude any
    other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular
    case.

DECLARATION 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 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 applying 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 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 lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole
   640 acres (in the case of a married woman, 320 acres) of
   first-class land.

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."
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.