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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent,
   together with the lease- and registration-fee, and the valua-
   tion for improvements (if any), 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 person shall apply for or hold more than one allot-
   ment, 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. Each section is an allotment. No mar-
   ried 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
   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 accord-
   ingly to lessees under these regulations.

10. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land
    held by him under these regulations, except under and sub-
    ject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

11. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable,
    shall extend and apply to the lands 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 provision of the
    said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision
    of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

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

Small Grazing-run in Taranaki Land District open for
Selection on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 12th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
small grazing-run will be open for lease on applica-
tion at this office, on Wednesday, 8th August, 1900, at the
upset half-yearly rental stated.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—PATEA COUNTY.

Rough pastoral land wholly covered with bush, and being
from 300 ft. to 1,580 ft. above sea-level; formation, papa
with sandstone and shell-rock; well watered; the timber
is chiefly tawa, rimu, rata, and black-birch; a small area
of fairly level land north-east of Trig. Station K. Access by
Waitotara Valley and Rawhitiroa Roads—the former being
a dray-road to within two miles of section; thence by a
bridle-road which continues via Rawhitiroa Road out to
Eltham Railway-station. Distance from Waitotara Railway-
station about thirty-seven miles.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run, Southland Land District, for Lease by Public
Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 7th July, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a lease of the under-
mentioned pastoral run will be submitted to public
auction at this office on Wednesday, the 29th day of August,
1900, at 11 o'clock a.m. :

PASTORAL LAND UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”

Counties of Wallace and Fiord.

Situated about three miles from Tewaewae Bay, and
known as “The Hump.”
Possession will be given on day of sale.
The purchaser must deposit a statutory declaration as
required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay
the sum of the half-year's rent and the license-fee on the
fall of the hammer.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in the Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, 29th May, 1900.

THE under-mentioned Crown land 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 5th September, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PALMERSTON NORTH KNIGHTS OF LABOUR BLOCK.

First-class Land.

Section 17A, Block VII., Tiriraukawa, is situated in the Palmerston North Knights of Labour Block. The access is
from Hunter ville, which is about twenty-four miles distant, via the Poukiore and Watershed Roads and Murray's Track,
which are formed for dray traffic for about nineteen miles; the rest is formed bridle-track only, bad in winter. The
section comprises hilly broken land, with an indifferent frontage to Murray's Track, and practically no flat land. The
soil is of fairly good quality, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising chiefly maire, miro, rata, tawa,
rewarewa, &c., with a thick undergrowth of horopito, karamu, konini, &c. The section is well watered by small streams.

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