Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1517

Sections in Maraeroa-Oturoa Block for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 28th June, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned sec-
tions in the Maraeroa-Oturoa Block, Thermal
Springs District, Auckland, will be offered for lease by
public auction, for a term of twenty-one years, at the upset
annual rentals noted below, at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, the 25th August,
1897, at 11 o'clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.
MARAEROA-OTUROA BLOCK, THERMAL SPRINGS DISTRICT.

These sections are all covered with mixed forest; soil
light, but good. They are not well watered, owing to the
porous nature of the soil.

CONDITIONS OF LEASING.

1. Term of lease, twenty-one years from the 1st day of
   September, 1897.
2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance; the first of such
   half-yearly payments to be made at the close of sale, and
   all future payments to be made to the officer appointed to
   receive the same within sixty days from the days on which
   they become due, and in default thereof the lease to be for-
   feited.
3. The lessee shall, within one year from the date of lease,
   fell, burn, and sow with grass an area equal to 5 per cent.
   of the land comprised therein; within two years a further
   5 per cent. of the area; within three years a further 5 per
   cent. of the area; within six years an amount equal to one-
   quarter of the total area; and at the end of the term an area
   equal to one-half of the total area.
4. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, &c.
5. No transfers or assignments to be permitted without
   the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
6. No valuation for improvements will be paid by the
   Crown, but the lease of the holdings will, a few months
   before the end of the term, be submitted to auction again for
   a further period of twenty-one years, loaded with the value
   of the improvements in favour of the lessee, the incoming
   tenant to pay the value of the improvements; but if there
   be no bid for the lease then the land, with the improve-
   ments, will revert to the outgoing tenant at the same rent
   paid under the expiring lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotment for Selection on Lease in Per-
petuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 12th July, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
village-homestead allotment will be open for selection
on lease in perpetuity at this office on and after Wednesday,
1st September, 1897.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
WAIKAWA VILLAGE.

| Survey | Section. | Block. | Area. | Lease in Perpetuity: |
| District. | | | | Half-yearly Rent |
| | | | | (4 per cent.) |
| | | | A. R. P. | £ s. d. |
| Waikawa | 23 | VII. | 17 1 22 | 0 8 8 |

This land is covered with bush of no commercial value.
Soil good. The distance from Waikawa is about two miles.
Limit of holding in this village, 50 acres. This section is
burdened with £26 valuation for improvements, consisting
of—hut, £5; clearing and grassing, £16; fencing, £5.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. The land enumerated above is first-class land, and is a
   village-homestead allotment, 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 1st day of September, 1897.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the
   land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for a lease shall be made in manner as pro-
   vided in Part I. of the said Act, and all such applications
   shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Inver-
   cargill; and a lease will be issued in accordance with the
   provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupa-
   tion, and condition in life (namely, whether married or
   single), and will be required to make the declaration pre-
   scribed in Schedule C of the said Act.

6. The successful applicant shall pay the first half-year's
   rent, together with the lease and registration-fee, imme-
   diately the application has been approved or declared suc-
   cessful at the ballot. The next payment will become due on
   the 1st July, 1898.

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.

8. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in
   the lease shall 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 the lessee under these regulations. The
   provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said
   Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accord-
   ingly to the lessee under these regulations.

9. The lessee shall not 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.

10. The lessee shall hold the allotment for his or her
    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.

11. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable,
    shall extend and apply to the land affected by these regula-
    tions, 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 pro-
    vision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any
    other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular
    case.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Cheviot Estate for Selection on Lease in Per-
petuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th July, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land
will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, upon
the terms and conditions hereunder stated, on and after
Wednesday, the 8th September, 1897.

If there be more than one application received for the
same land on the same day, then the order of selection will
be decided by ballot, at this office, on the following day, at
11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
CHEVIOT COUNTY.

| Section. | Block. | Area. | Lease in Perpetuity. |
| | | | Rent per | Half-yearly |
| | | | Acre. | Rent. |

SURVEYED FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Lowry Peaks Survey District.

This section is situated in the central portion of the
Cheviot Estate, on the Hurunui-Homestead Road, about
one mile and a half in a south-westerly direction from the
Township of Mackenzie, and comprises rich agricultural
land in English grass, a portion of the area being low-lying,
and liable to flood after heavy rains.

Cheviot Survey District.

| 14 | XI. | 24 0 0 | 6 0 | 3 12 0 |

This section is situated about three-quarters of a mile
from Port Robinson, and consists of open, broken agricul-
tural and pastoral land, the soil being of a good sandy-loam
character, carrying tussock and English grass.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.