Dec. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2009

Village Homesteads in Horowhenua County open for Selection
on Lease in Perpetuity.

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

THE under-mentioned lands will be open for selection on
lease in perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 27th January, 1897.

If more than one application be received for the same
section on the same day, then the order of selection shall
be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
Horowhenua Village-homestead Settlement.
First-class Land.

Section. | Area. | Lease in Perpetuity.
| | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent.
| A. R. P. | s. d. | £ s. d.
16 | 5 0 0 | 5 2·4 | 0 13 0
Weighted with £10 for improvements.
20 | 5 0 0 | 5 2·4 | 0 13 0
Weighted with £5 for improvements.
53 | 25 0 0 | 4 2·4 | 2 12 6
Weighted with £2 10s. for improvements.
55 | 25 0 0 | 4 2·4 | 2 12 6
Weighted with £2 10s. for improvements.
47 | 10 0 0 | 4 4·8 | 1 2 0

Section 16 is situated on the main road near Levin. The
land is level, the soil good, on a shingle formation, and is
more or less covered with mixed timber. There is a small
house on the section.

Section 20 is situated on the main road near Levin. The
land is level, and the soil is good on a shingle formation. All
the bush has been felled but not burnt.

Section 53.—This section is situated about a mile and a
half from Levin Railway-station, and is approached by a
formed road. The soil is good, on a gravel formation. The
land is perfectly level, timbered with rimu, matai, miro,
&c., and well suited for dairying or gardening purposes.
An area of 2 acres has been felled and burned.

Section 55 is situated about a mile and a half from Levin
Railway-station, and is approached by a formed road. The
soil is good, on a gravel formation. The land is perfectly
level, timbered with rimu, matai, miro, &c., and is well suited
for dairying or gardening purposes. An area of 2½ acres has
been felled.

Section 47.—This section is within five minutes' walk of
Levin Railway-station. The land is level, with good soil on
a shingle formation. The milling timber has been cut out,
and no improvements have been effected.

[Note.—Section No. 47 is offered subject to the right of
allowing the existing tramway to be used through and over
it, and also for the free ingress and egress of all persons,
animals, and conveyances in any way connected therewith,
together with full permission to repair, maintain, and keep
in working-order such line of tramway for a period of one
year from the 1st January, 1897, after which time all rights
thereto shall cease.]

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and
   are divided into village-homestead allotments, open for selec-
   tion 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 twenty-seventh day of January, one
   thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the
   land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as
   provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications
   shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wel-
   ington; and leases will be issued in accordance with the
   provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occu-
   pation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or
   single), and will be required to make the declaration hereby
   prescribed.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent,
   the lease- and registration-fee, and the amount with which
   the section is weighted for improvements, immediately the
   application has been approved or declared successful at the
   ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the
   1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in
   section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is
   payable as before provided. The next payment of rent will
   become due on 1st January, 1898.

8. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and such
   allotment shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and
   not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.
   No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this
   provision shall not apply to any married woman who may
   become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

9. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one
   year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence
   shall be continuous.

10. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in
    each lease shall, subject to clause No. 9, be as provided in
    Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and
    all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial
    improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these
    regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other
    provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence,
    shall, subject to clause No. 9, apply accordingly to lessees
    under these regulations.

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.

11. 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.

12. 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 provision of the
    said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision
    of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY APPLICANT.

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 the purchase of a
   lease of Section , Block , 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 I am not the owner, or lessee, or occupier, directly
   or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other
   person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony ex-
   ceeding in the whole one acre.
5. That I have not, within one year from the date hereof,
   surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal or 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 , 189 , before
me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony
of New Zealand.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Canterbury, for Lease by Public Auction.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the under-
mentioned pastoral runs will be offered for sale by
public auction, at the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru,
on Wednesday, the 20th January, 1897, at noon.

SCHEDULE.
Waimate County.

Run No. | Survey District. | Block. | Area. | Rate per Acre | Upset Annual Rental. | Term of Lease.
217 | Waihao | VII., XI. | A. R. P. | d. | £ s. d. | Years.
218 | Waihao | III., VII., VIII. | 283 0 35 | 4·8 | 5 13 2 | 21
| | | 140 0 0 | 2·4 | 1 8 0 | 21

These runs are situated in the Pentland Hills district,
adjacent to the Pentland Hills Road, from twelve to sixteen
miles north-west from the Waihao Forks Railway-station,
and comprise rough, hilly, tussock land, adapted for pastoral
purposes.