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and the Otago Central Railway skirts the sections on the west. These sections form part of an Otago High School endowment. Valuations for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared: Section 57, £19 15s. 6d.; Section 58, £5 18s.; Section 59, £13 16s.; Section 62, £17 13s. 6d.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

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 20th day of October, 1897.

3. The rental stated 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, Dunedin; 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 prescribed in Schedule C of the said Act.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee, 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.

8. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each 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 lessees under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

9. 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.

10. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and such allotment shall be held 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 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Grasmere Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of August, 1897.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

By virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Southland Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 53 acres 3 roods 22 perches, more or less, being Section No. 158, Block XV., Invercargill Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 10 and 29 of Block XV., 1068 and 1099 links respectively; towards the east by Section No. 29 of Block XV. and a road-line, 1847 and 1552 links respectively; towards the south-east by Foreshore Reserve, 2245 links; and towards the west by Section No. 34 of Block XV., 3717 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Invercargill.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of August, 1897.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twelfth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have been set apart under the said Act and declared open for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor 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 in the said village settlements shall be leased as village-homestead allotments only.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Village-homestead Allotments.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

County of Horowhenua.

Levin .. | 45 | A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d.
| 5 2 0 | 0 14 0 | 1 18 6

Weighted with £134 for improvements.

This section is situated on the main street of Levin Township, close to the Post-office, school, and the main business part of the town. It consists of fair soil on a shingle formation, and is open land.

County of Pahiatua.

Makuri.. | 152 | 9 3 0 | 0 2 3·6 | 0 11 3

Weighted with £73 5s. for improvements.

This section is situated at Makuri, about 20 chains from the main road, this distance not yet having been formed into a road. The soil is good, on a limestone formation, although there is no flat land on the section.

Pahiatua | 15 | 5 1 27 | 0 4 9·6 | 0 13 1

Weighted with £69 19s. for improvements. There is a liability of £1 17s. 8d. on this section due to the Pahiatua County Council for rates.

This section is situated about a mile from Mangatainoka Township, where there is a Post-office, school, butter-factory, &c., and is approached by a good metalled road. The land consists of alluvial soil, is level, and in grass, although fern and thistle are now getting into it.

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”).