1906
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

Small Grazing-runs, Marlborough, open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 12th September, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for selection on Monday, 13th November, 1899.
If more than one application be received, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

About 300 acres birch bush, remainder fern and scrub; very broken; pastoral only; well watered. Average altitude, 1,500 ft. Twenty-two miles from Blenheim—by formed road nineteen miles, and unformed three miles.

ONAMALUTU SURVEY DISTRICT.

128 | 412 0 0 | 0 3 | 2 11 6
About 170 acres birch bush, remainder fern and scrub; very broken; pastoral only; well watered. Average height, 1,000 ft. Twenty-three miles from Blenheim—by formed road nineteen miles, and unformed four miles.

129 | 1,026 0 0 | 0 2½ | 4 16 2
About 600 acres birch bush, remainder fern and scrub; very broken; pastoral only; well watered. Average height, 1,500 ft. Twenty-three miles from Blenheim—by formed road nineteen miles, and unformed four miles.

130 | 1,325 0 0 | 0 3 | 8 5 8
About 500 acres birch bush, remainder fern and scrub; very broken; pastoral only; well watered. Average height, 1,200 ft. Twenty-four miles from Blenheim—by formed road nineteen miles, and unformed five miles.

138 | 992 0 0 | 0 3 | 6 4 0
About 150 acres birch bush, 650 acres burnt bush, 200 acres fern and scrub; very broken; pastoral only; well watered. 150 acres of the burnt bush is sown with English grass. Gold is found in small quantities in Flower’s and Nutmeg Creeks. Weighted with £45, value of improvements, which consist of the 150 acres of English grass. Eighteen miles from Blenheim—by formed road seventeen miles, and unformed one mile.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Marlborough, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 12th September, 1899.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be offered for lease by auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Monday, the 13th day of November, 1899.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—PASTORAL LICENSES UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”

Onamalutu Survey District.

Run No. 140: Area, 1,860 acres; upset annual rental, £12.
Run No. 141: Area, 2,213 acres; upset annual rental, £15.
Run No. 142: Area, 1,670 acres; upset annual rental, £11.
Term in each case, twenty-one years.

Arapawa Survey District.

Run No. 19: Area, 335 acres; upset annual rental, £1.
Term, ten years.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND.

Run No. 140: Broken pastoral country, well watered; poor soil, covered with fern and scrub; accessible by road; twenty-three miles from Blenheim.

Run No. 141: Broken pastoral country, well watered; about 1,100 acres bush, 250 acres burnt bush, remainder fern and scrub; accessible by road; about twenty-five miles from Blenheim.

Run No. 142: Broken pastoral country, well watered; covered with fern and scrub; accessible by road; about twenty-four miles from Blenheim.

Run No. 19: All hill, covered with fern, scrub, and birch bush; about twelve miles from Picton by water.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotment, Wellington, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 18th October, 1899. If more than one application be received for the section on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington. If the section be not applied for on the 18th October, 1899, it will be open thereafter for application at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Village-homestead Allotment.—County of Pahiatua.—Pahiatua Village Settlement.—Subdivisions of Section 77, Block XVIII., Mangahao.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £74 3s. 2d. for improvements.

Note.—These sections are one allotment.

This allotment is situated in the Pahiatua Village Settlement, on Cross Road, and is distant about half a mile from creamery, school, and store, and about three-quarters of a mile from Mangatainoka Railway-station, Post-office, &c. The land is flat, with medium soil overlying gravel, and is all grassed.

The lot is weighted with £74 3s. 2d. for improvements, which comprise a small four-roomed cottage, well, grass, and fencing, the latter being old, and out of repair in places.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. The land enumerated hereon is first-class land, and 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, 18th October, 1899.

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

4. Applications for a lease 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 a lease 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. The successful applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee, and the valuation of the 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.

8. 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.

9. 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 a lessee 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 a lessee under these regulations.

10. 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,