Jan. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 139

Village Homesteads in Horowhenua County open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1896.

THE under-mentioned lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 27th January, 1897. 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.
HOROWHENUA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

Section 16 is situated on the main road near Levin. The land is level, the soil good, on a shingle formation, and is more or less covered with mixed timber. There is a small house on the section.

Section 20 is situated on the main road near Levin. The land is level, and the soil is good on a shingle formation. All the bush has been felled but not burnt.

Section 53.—This section is situated about a mile and a half from Levin Railway-station, and is approached by a formed road. The soil is good, on a gravel formation. The land is perfectly level, timbered with rimu, matai, miro, &c., and well suited for dairying or gardening purposes. An area of 2 acres has been felled and burned.

Section 55 is situated about a mile and a half from Levin Railway-station, and is approached by a formed road. The soil is good, on a gravel formation. The land is perfectly level, timbered with rimu, matai, miro, &c., and is well suited for dairying or gardening purposes. An area of 2½ acres has been felled.

Section 47.—This section is within five minutes’ walk of Levin Railway-station. The land is level, with good soil on a shingle formation. The milling timber has been cut out, and no improvements have been effected.

[NOTE.—Section No. 47 is offered subject to the right of allowing the existing tramway to be used through and over it, and also for the free ingress and egress of all persons, animals, and conveyances in any way connected therewith, together with full permission to repair, maintain, and keep in working-order such line of tramway for a period of one year from the 1st January, 1897, after which time all rights thereto shall cease.]

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 lands shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

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. 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, the lease- and registration-fee, and the amount with which the section is weighted 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 1st January, 1898.

8. No lessee shall 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, A.B., 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 , Block , District.

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, 1882.”

A.B.

Declared at , this day of , 189 , before me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

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

Pastoral Run, Southland, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 1st December, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral land will be submitted to public auction, for lease, on Thursday, the 28th January, 1897, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m.

Run No. 149: 8575 acres; term, 10 years; upset annual rental, £71 9s. 2d.

The run will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1897.

The purchasers must deposit a statutory declaration required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of the half-year’s rent and license-fee on fall of the hammer.

Valuations for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Invercargill, before the licensee will be let into possession. The amount of such valuations shall, exclusive of the value of a rabbit-proof fence, in no case exceed three times the amount of the average annual rental paid under the expiring lease or license during the term thereof, or five times such amount in cases where the annual rent does not exceed £50.

DAVID BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.