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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.”

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.

Native Land Court Notices.

Native Land Court Agents licensed.

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT,
NEW ZEALAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that licenses have been issued to the under-mentioned persons authorising them to appear as Agents in the Native Land Court for the year ending the 31st day of December, 1896, subject to the provisions of section 20 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” viz.:

Archibald Richard MacFarlane,
Alexander McDonald,
Jane Foley (Mrs.),
Alfred L. D. Fraser,
Hare Teimana,
Paratene Ngata,
Tamati Tautuhi Fox, and
Alfred Knocks.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of January, 1896.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Application for Letters of Administration, with Will annexed.

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 24th January, 1896.

In the matter of the will of HONE TE ONE, of Kawhia, deceased.

APPLICATION having been made by Hone Kaora, of Kawhia, that letters of administration be granted of the aforesaid will:

It is hereby notified that all persons opposing such application must lodge a caveat, in manner prescribed, within two calendar months after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
Registrar.

Order under Section 13 of “The Native Land Court Act Amendment Act, 1889.”

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF
NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of the Wharekaka Block, and of the application of Patera Rangi under section 13 of “The Native Land Court Act Amendment Act, 1889.”

WHEREAS the above application was referred by me, as Chief Judge of the said Court, to James Booth, Esq., a Judge of the Court, for inquiry and report: And whereas the said James Booth, assisted by an Assessor, duly held such inquiry, at Tolago Bay, on the 29th day of November, 1895, and reported thereon: And whereas, as the result of such inquiry, it appears that the name of the said Patera Rangi was included in the list of names of the persons who were found entitled upon the investigation of the title to the said block, but the said name was accidentally omitted in drawing up the order of the Court upon the said investigation: And whereas the said Patera Rangi has been prejudicially affected by such omission:

Now, therefore, for the purpose of remedying such omission, and in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in me by section 13 aforesaid, I hereby order that the order of the Court on the investigation of the title to the said block, which said order bears date the 21st day of July, 1876, be amended by including therein the name of the said Patera Rangi as one of the owners of the said block, and that such amendment shall, for the purpose of the subdivision of the said block, take effect as from the date of the said order as if the name of the said Patera Rangi had been originally included therein. And I direct that notice of this order be given in the Gazette and Kahiti.

As witness my hand, this 24th day of January, 1896.

GEO. B. DAVY,
Chief Judge.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 20th January, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the Native Land Court which was notified to be held at Waiuku on the 30th day of January, 1896, has been adjourned to the 6th day of February, 1896.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
Registrar.

[Auckland, 96–5.]

Application for Letters of Administration.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington 28th January, 1896.

In the matter of the will of WAIPUA, of Mimi, Taranaki, deceased.

APPLICATION having been made by Te Pipi John Willison that letters of administration be granted of the aforesaid will:

It is hereby notified that all persons opposing such application must lodge a caveat, in manner prescribed, within two calendar months after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.