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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead Allotments in Wellington.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of February, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have been set apart under the said Act and declared open for lease as village-homestead allotments, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of lease in perpetuity, and which said terms and conditions are set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and also doth direct that the lands shall be leased as village-homestead allotments only.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Hunterville Village Settlement.

Rangitikei | 60 and 61 | 10 3 23 | 5 7·2 | 1 10 6
Weighted with £20 for improvements.

Rangitikei | 50 and 51 | 8 1 5 | 6 4·8 | 1 6 6
Weighted with £15 for improvements.

Sections 60 and 61 lie to the westward of the Hunterville Township, fronting on a dray-road, and consist of hilly land with a clay soil, on a papa formation. The land is well watered by springs, and is all in grass. Improvements have been effected as shown above.

Sections 50 and 51 lie in the western portion of Hunterville, fronting on a dray-road, and consist of hilly land, with a good homestead-site near the road. The soil is clayey, on a papa formation. The land is watered by springs, is all in grass, and partly logged up.

Ngaturi Village Settlement.

Pahiatua | 18 and 19, and parts of 15, 16, and 17 | 2 3 15·6 | 2 9·6 | 0 4 0
Weighted with £5 13s. 10d. for improvements.

Pahiatua | 29 | 1 2 20 | 2 4·8 | 0 2 0
Weighted with £6 14s. for improvements.

These sections are situated on a metalled road, six miles from Mangatainoka. Sections 18, 19, &c., consist of good alluvial soil, and Section 29 is undulating, with good soil. Both lots are cleared and grassed.

Mangaone Village Settlement.

Wairarapa | Lot 5 of Sec. 24 North | 10 3 0 | 2 9·6 | 0 15 1
Weighted with £10 for improvements.

This section is situated in the Mangaone Valley, seven miles and a half from Eketahuna, near the main road, and is good level alluvial land. It is well watered, and about 5 acres of it is in grass, the balance being covered with mixed timber, chiefly tawa and rimu, &c.

Mangatainoko Village Settlement.

Pahiatua | 39 | 27 2 14 | 3 2·4 | 2 4 2
Weighted with £210 7s. 6d. for improvements.

This section fronts on the railway-line at Mangatainoko,
distant about half a mile from the main road, post-office, store, creamery, school, and proposed railway-station. The soil is fair, on a limestone and papa formation. The section is all in grass, and has 2 acres of level land, the balance being rather broken. There is a house on the section, and other improvements have been effected.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. THE lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are divided into 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 land shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the 2nd June, 1897.

3. The rental stated in the First Schedule hereto 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. 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 day 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 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 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.