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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Land in Hawke's Bay open for Sale or Selection.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for sale or selection, in terms of section 136 of "The Land Act, 1892," either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 24th February, 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 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.

| Survey District. | Section. | Block. | Area. | Cash Price. | Occupation with Right of Purchase: Rent, 5 per Cent. | Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 4 per Cent. |
| | | | | Per Acre. | Total Price. | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent. | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent. |
| | | | | s. d. | £ s. d. | s. d. | £ s. d. | s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Uawa .. | .. | 4 | I. | A. R. P. | 455 3 0 | 10 0 | 228 0 0 | 0 6 | 5 14 0 | 0 4·8 | 4 11 3 |
| Tokomaru | .. | 2 | XIII. | | | | | | | | |

Broken country; light soil; about 18 acres of mixed bush, remainder being fern and scrub. Distant thirteen miles inland from Tolago Bay.

ERIC C. GOLD-SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri and Totara Timber, Auckland, for Sale.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 4th January, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned kauri and totara timber, situated on the Waitaroto Block, in Blocks I. and II., Omapere Survey District, Bay of Islands County, about seven miles from Okaihau, will be submitted for sale by public auction, at this office, on the 19th February, 1897, at 11 o'clock a.m. :—

Lot 1: 361 kauri-trees, containing about 1,219,000 superficial feet; and 117 totara-trees, containing about 107,000ft. Upset price, £663.

Lot 2: 164 kauri-trees, containing about 356,000 superficial feet. Upset price, £178.

Conditions of Sale.—One-half of the purchase-money to be paid in cash or marked cheque upon the fall of the hammer, the balance within twelve months thereafter.

Timber to be removed within three years from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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. | Section. | Block. | Area. | Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 5 per Cent. |
| | | | | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent. |
| | | | | s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Patiti | .. | 11 | IV. | A. R. P. | 20 0 0 | 13 7·2 | 6 16 0 |

Locality and Description of Section.

This section is situated in the central portion of the Pareora 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 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 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 successful, 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 following. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof, and the amount with which the section is weighted for improvements, 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 erection 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-