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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

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 Wednesday, 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 £28 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 Hunter ville, six miles and a half of which is a metalled road, the remainder 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, Wellington, and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. as aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, 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 valuation 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 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 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 erection of any non-movable building.

11. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject 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 regulations, 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, exceeding 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, 1892.”

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.