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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(2.) Acreage and description of the land intended to be taken compulsorily, as specified in the requisition: [Set out from requisition.]

(3.) The claimant's classification thereof into first-class, second-class, or third-class land, as the case may be, if he objects to the Minister's classification thereof as specified in the requisition: [Set out the claimant's classification, and specify the points wherein it differs from the Minister's.]

(4.) Whether the land intended to be taken is the whole or less than the whole of the claimant's block: [State "the whole" or "less than the whole," as the case may be.]

(5.) Acreage and claimant's classification of the whole block, where less than the whole is intended to be taken: [Set out same, and specify the points wherein the owner's classification differs from the Minister's as specified in the requisition.]

(6.) Claimant's objection (if any) to any land being taken: [State the objection, if any, and the ground thereof, which must be that the whole of the claimant's block does not exceed the prescribed maximum of either first-class or second-class or third-class land.]

(7.) Claimant's demand (if any) to select and retain out of the land intended to be taken any specified area not exceeding the prescribed maximum: [Assert the demand (if any) thus—"Demand hereby made in respect of"—and set out the acreage, position, and classification of the area to which the demand relates.]

(8.) Claimant's demand (if any) that the whole of his block be taken: [Assert the demand (if any) thus: "Demand hereby made."]

(9.) Nature and particulars of the claimant's interest in the land to be taken or, as the case may be, in the block from which the land is to be taken, and of all encumbrances, liens, and interests affecting the same respectively: [Set out same with reasonable particularity, thus—Owner in fee-simple, mortgagee, lessee, or as the case may be—and give reference to every encumbrance, lien, or interest, with sufficient particulars to identify same. If the claimant's interest is other than that of owner in fee-simple, give reference to the instrument of title or other means of identifying such interest. State whether such interest relates to the whole of the land or to only part thereof, and if only to part, specify the acreage, classification, and position of such part, and identify same by plan and description.]

(10.) Particulars, items, and total amount of claim: [Specify separately and seriatim each matter on account of which the claimant claims compensation, with full particulars of the nature and extent of each separate item of the claim, but without naming amounts. Distinguish each such item by a reference number, and if any item is for land injuriously affected, as distinguished from land to be taken, specify the acreage, description, and position thereof with sufficient particularity to insure identification. Then tabulate thus:—

£ s. d.

[Set out reference number and short heading of each item of the claim as previously detailed, and the amount claimed in respect of each such item separately, together with the total amount of the whole claim.]

Total amount of whole claim .. .. £

Wherefore the claimant claims the sum of £ , as particularised above.

Dated at , this day of , 18 .

C.D.,
Claimant.

5. The claim shall be accompanied by plans and descriptions showing, as the case may be, the acreage and the claimant's classification of (a) the whole block, (b) the portion intended to be taken, (c) the portion which the claimant demands to select and retain, and (d) the land injuriously affected.

6. If the requisition is served on the claimant in Great Britain, he may serve the claim by delivering it to the Agent-General in London, or by posting it in a registered letter addressed to the Agent-General in London.

7. The claimant's address for service shall be an address in the colony.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[No. 52

Declaring that the Tenure of Education Lands in the Otago Provincial District held on Perpetual Lease may be exchanged to Lease in Perpetuity.

(l.s.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fifth section of "The Reserves and Crown Lands Disposal and Enabling Act, 1896," and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lessees of the sections of land situated in the Provincial District of Otago, and enumerated in the Schedule hereto, may exchange their perpetual leases for leases in perpetuity under section one hundred and fifty of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO PROVINCIAL DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!