Sept. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1487

First-class Land, Selwyn County, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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

THE under-mentioned Crown land 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 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.

BRACO SETTLEMENT. — SELWYN COUNTY. — CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

The Braco Settlement is situated on the Fendalton Road, about three miles and a half from Christchurch Post-office, and comprises open, flat grass-land. The soil is deep and of very good quality, resting on a loamy subsoil. The access is by excellent roads, the lot fronting on the metalled Ilam Road. The settlement is admirably adapted for occupation by market-gardeners, artisans, labourers, and others who seek an opportunity of settling on small areas in the vicinity of Christchurch.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE FOR LAND WITHIN THE BRACO 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 land 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 successful, 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. The next payment will become due on the 1st July, 1897. 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 section, 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 section.

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 10 per cent. of the price of the land;

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another 10 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 10 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.

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 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.

11. 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.

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

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

14. 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 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 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.”

A.B.

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.

Land in Marlborough for Sale for Cash.

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

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be offered for sale by auction at the Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, the 21st day of October, 1896, at 11 o’clock a.m.

AVON SURVEY DISTRICT.—ON BANK HOUSE RUN.

Section 1, Block III.: 3,810 acres; upset price, £1,524; weighted with £127, cost of survey, and £160, value of improvements.

Section 1, Block V.: 2,564 acres; upset price, £1,538 8s.; weighted with £85 9s. 4d., cost of survey, and £194, value of improvements.

Description of Land.—About 740 acres flat, generally open, and covered with tussocks and other native grasses, with a few patches of manuka scrub, portions stony; remainder stony, covered with fern and stunted manuka scrub; well watered in winter, but dry in summer. Accessible by road up Black Creek from the main Wairau Valley Road; distance, about fifteen miles from Blenheim.

One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with the Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the deposit at auction will be forfeited.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.