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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

First-class Land in Waimate County for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 24th August, 1896.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for
selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands
and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 14th
October, 1896. If more than one application be received for
the same section on the same day, then the order of selec-
tion shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at
11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christ-
church.

SCHEDULE.

Waimate County.—Pareora Settlement.
Surveyed First-class Land.

This section is situated at the north-western corner of
the Pareora Settlement, about three miles from the St.
Andrew's Railway-station, and about nine miles and a half
from Timaru, and comprises open level agricultural land of
good quality, well adapted for occupation by working-men,
gardeners, and others. The section is weighted with a sum
of £53 18s. 6d., being valuation of hut, boundary and sub-
division fencing, cultivation, planting, and drains, which
sum must be paid on allotment, in addition to the usual
deposit and fees.

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This section is situated on the north-western side of the
Pareora Settlement, about three miles from the St. Andrew's
Railway-station, and about nine miles and a half from
Timaru, and comprises open, level agricultural land of good
quality, well adapted for occupation by working-men,
gardeners, and others. The section is weighted with a sum
of £33 8s. 6d., being valuation of boundary and internal
fencing, cultivation, &c., which sum must be paid on allot-
ment, in addition to the usual deposit and fees.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE FOR LAND WITHIN THE
PAREORA SETTLEMENT.

1. The land enumerated 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 14th day of October, 1896.

3. The rental 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 suc-
   cessful, 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
   following. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the
   preparation of the lease and the registration thereof.

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire or to hold more
   than one allotment, 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 allotment.

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 such 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 and sweetbriar.

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, if the area of
    the whole exceed 10 acres, 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 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 conditions 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 erected upon the land must be kept in
    good order and repair.

17. The lessee is liable for all rates, taxes, and assess-
    ments 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, 1892."

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 a
   lease of Section , Block , Survey
   District.
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 land acquired under "The Land for Settlements Act,
   1892," or of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in
   the whole 640 acres of land.
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."
   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.