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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93

road; on the south-west by a public road; on the north-
west by Section 6; and on the north-east by Section 8.
All that parcel of land in the Hawke's Bay Land District,
called or known by the name of "Sebastopol 3 Paddock,"
containing about 530 acres, situated in Block III., Waipuku-
rau Survey District, Waipawa County, being part of the
land granted to the Bishop of Wellington, and situated in
the south-west corner of the aforesaid land.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Officiating Ministers for 1896.—Notice No. 35.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1896.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in-
tituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an
Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.

The Reverend Charles William Robinson.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Crown Lands Notices.

First-class Land in Pareora Settlement, Waimate County, open
for Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office.
Christchurch, 1st December, 1896.

THE under-mentioned land will be open for selection on
lease in perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, 27th January, 1897.
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 10 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Christchurch.

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

Survey District: Patiti
Section: ..
Block: IV.
Area: 20 0 0
Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 5 per Cent.
Rent per Acre: 13 7·2
Half-yearly Rent: £ 6 16 0

This section is situated in the central portion of the Pare-
ora Settlement, about three miles and a quarter from the
St. Andrew's Railway-station, and about nine miles 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 £87, being valuation of dwelling-house, boundary and
subdivision fencing, and cultivation, which sum must be
paid on allotment, 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 pro-
   visions 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 27th day of January, 1897.

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 success-
   ful, 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 fol-
   lowing. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the pre-
   paration of the lease and the registration thereof, and the
   amount with which the section is weighted for improve-
   ments, immediately the application has been approved or
   been declared successful at the ballot.

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 erec-
tion 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, 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 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 Acts, 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 be-
lieving 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.

C. B. SHANKS,
Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands.