JAN. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 43

Village-homestead Allotments, Wellington, open for Selection
on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1897.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for
selection on lease in perpetuity on and after Wednes-
day, the 17th February, 1897, at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Wellington. 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.

Rangitikei County.

Rakautoru V.S. | 32 | 15 3 9 | 3 2·4 | 1 5 4
Improvements to the value of £87 4s. have been effected,
with which the section is loaded.
This section is situated on the Main North Island Trunk
Road, north of Mangaweka. The land is well watered; two-
thirds of it is level, and the soil is good, on a papa formation.
It has all been cleared and grassed, and other improvements
have been effected.

Wanganui County.

Mangamahu V.S. | 3 | 13 1 32 | 4 9·6 | 1 12 4
Weighted with £10 4s. for improvements.

Mangamahu V.S. | 4 | 13 1 24 | 4 9·6 | 1 12 2
Weighted with £7 10s. for improvements.

Mangamahu V.S. | 8 | 17 3 5 | 4 9·6 | 2 2 9
Weighted with £7 4s. for improvements.

These sections are situated near the main road from
Maungakaretu to Fordell, on the western bank of the
Wangaehu River, near its confluence with the Mangamahu
Stream, and distant about seventeen miles from the Fordell
Railway-station. The land is watered by springs, streams,
and the Wangaehu River; the soil is fair, on a clay-and-
gravel formation, and most of the land is in grass. Section
3 has about 7 acres and Sections 4 and 8 have about 10 acres
of level land each.

Wairarapa North County.

Pongaroa V.S. | 9* | 20 0 0 | 1 7·2 | 0 16 0
Weighted with £1 for improvements.

Pongaroa V.S. | 37 | 20 1 8 | 2 1·2 | 1 1 4
Weighted with £29 2s. for improvements.

Pongaroa V.S. | 10 | 19 3 9 | 1 9·6 | 0 17 10
Weighted with £1 for improvements.

These sections are situated on the Alfredton-Weber Road,
distant from one to two miles from the Pongaroa Township.
The soil is clayey, on a papa formation. Sections 9 and 10
have about 8 acres of flat land each, and Section 37 has 5
acres of level land. The two former sections are watered by
a permanent stream. Section 37 has about 13 acres felled
and grassed, and 1 acre has been felled only on each of the
other two sections; the balance is covered with mixed
timber.

Paa Creek V.S. | 4 | 10 0 0 | 2 9·6 | 0 14 0
Weighted with £23 16s. for improvements.

This section is distant from Pahiatua, in a south-easterly
direction, about ten miles, and from Hamua and Eketahuna
it is about nine and eleven miles respectively. It fronts on
a metalled road, and consists of alluvial soil on a shingle
formation. It is watered by a stream, is all level, and has
been felled and laid down in grass.

Rangitikei County.

Makohine V.S. | 12 | 27 1 0 | 2 6 | 1 14 1
Weighted with £10 10s. for improvements.

This section is situated about two miles from Mangaonoho
Railway-station, and seven miles from Hunterville, six
miles and a half of which is a metalled road, the remain-
der being a cart-road to within 10 chains, and a pack-track
the rest of the way. Five acres of the section are flat, the
balance being fair to rough. The soil is good, on a shingle
formation, is well watered, and 6 acres are in grass, the
rest being covered with mixed forest. A drain has been cut
through a portion of the section by the Public Works
Department.

• Section 9 is offered for lease subject to the reservation of a right
  of road through it in case it should be wanted by the Crown.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and
   are village-homestead allotments, 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 17th February, 1897.

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. as 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,
   together with the lease- and registration-fee, and the valua-
   tion 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 the 1st January, 1898.

8. No person shall apply for or hold more than one allot-
   ment, 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 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 substan-
    tial 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, __, of __, 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 No. __, Village Settlement.
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
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—__, a Justice of the Peace in and for the
Colony of New Zealand.

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