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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Tamai Hamlet, near Christchurch, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 10th May, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be opened for application upon lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Monday, the 26th June, 1899, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN COUNTY.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.
Tamai Hamlet.

• Interest and sinking fund on building valued at £120, repayable in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £6 1s. 3d. † Interest and sinking fund on building valued at £20, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £1 14s. 7d.—Total, half-yearly, £10 13s. 4d.

Locality and Description of Tamai Hamlet.

The Tamai Hamlet is situated in the Borough of Woolston, and is about two miles from the General Post Office, Christchurch, via the Ferry Road. The nearest portion of the hamlet is 5 chains and the furthest 40 chains from the Ferry Road. The Christchurch-Woolston tram passes Mackworth Street both ways about thirty times a day. The whole of the hamlet comprises flat agricultural land, and the greatest portion is good soil on clay subsoil on sand, a small area of some of the sections at the north end being sandy.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments, Southland, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 22nd May, 1899.

THE under-mentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Thursday, the 13th July, 1899.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—ACKERS VILLAGE.
First-class Land.

Locality and Description of Land.

Ackers Village is situated in Otatara Bush, some seven miles from Invercargill by road. Land flat and of fair quality, covered with mixed bush; tapped for most part by gravelled road. Limit, 50 acres.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are 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 Thursday, the 13th day of July, 1899.

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, Invercargill; 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. The next payment will become due on 1st January, 1900.

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 the limit prescribed above, and all allotments 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.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Land open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection, in terms of section 159 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on lease in perpetuity, on and after Tuesday, the 20th July, 1899.