Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1471

Land in the Tauakira No. 1 Block, Wellington Land District, open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 12th September, 1900, at the half-yearly rentals noted below. In case of more than one application for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington. If the runs be not applied for on or before the 12th September, 1900, they will be open for application thereafter at Wellington.

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

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WANGANUI COUNTY.—TAUAKIRA NO. 1 BLOCK.
Second-class Pastoral Country.

CONDITIONS.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on small grazing-runs is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one ear’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be paid immediately the application is declared successful; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

DECLARATION.

I, __, of *__, 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 desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No. †__.

3. That I am purchasing 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 whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

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.”

(Signature.)

Declared at __, this __ day of __, 190 , before me— ____, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 24th July, 1900.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of section 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 12th September, 1900.

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., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT—TAUAKIRA NO. 1 BLOCK.
Second-class Surveyed Land.

This block is situated between the Wanganui and the Mangawhero Rivers, and includes Tauakira, the highest point on their common watershed. The access to the western portion is by the Wanganui River to Pitangi Road, opposite Te Rimu, twenty-eight miles from Wanganui; thence by the surveyed but unformed Pitangi Road, which leads into the heart of the block. The access on the eastern side is by the Upokongaro and Field’s Dray Road, eighteen miles, and five miles additional rough horse-track. All road-lines within the block shown upon the sale-plan are uncleared and unformed. The whole area comprises generally high hilly country with sharp ridges intersected by deep gullies, all covered with forest and scrub. There are some small flats and easy slopes in places. The forest consists generally of hinau, tawa, miro, tawhai, tawhero, rewa-rewa, rimu, and rata, and the undergrowth, which is generally thick, of kowhai, manuka, makomako, houhou, rangiora, &c., and a thick growth of supplejacks in the gullies. The soil varies from fair to good, being shallower on the sharp ridges and fairly deep on the flatter tops and in the bottoms. The formation is papa and sandstone, and occasionally shell rock. The land is fairly well watered by numerous small springs and streams. The elevation ranges from about 300 ft. to 2,400 ft. above sea-level. When the bush has been felled and burned, and the land sown down in English grasses, it should form good healthy sheep country, which is a characteristic of the district.

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

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