Aug. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1615

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 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. Each section is an allotment. 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 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.

10. 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.

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.

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

Sections in the Township of Parata, Wellington Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1900.

THE under-mentioned thirty-six sections in the Township of Parata, on the main road and railway-line between Wellington and Otaki, will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 11th September, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon. Sections not sold on the 11th September will be open thereafter at the upset ground-rentals noted below.

SCHEDULE.

TOWNSHIP OF PARATA.—HOROWHENUA COUNTY.

The Parata Township is situated on the main road and railway-line between Wellington and Otaki, the latter place being forty-eight miles from Wellington, and is situated about six miles north of Paraparaumu. The area comprises open, flat, and undulating land laid down in English grasses. Remnants of the forest—stumps and logs—still remain. The soil is of good quality, capable of producing garden- and farm-produce freely. There exists a store, accommodation-houses, a public school, post-and-telegraph office, railway-station, and a daily train and mail service both ways. The climate is healthy, the district is being rapidly settled, and the township affords an opportunity to business people, labourers, and small settlers to establish homes on reasonable and advantageous terms.

Maps and full particulars may be obtained upon application.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The respective lots shall be offered by auction on the 11th September, 1900.

2. The bidder of the highest rent shall be declared to be the lessee, and, if any dispute arises as to the last or highest bidding for any lot, the lot in dispute shall be put up again at the last preceding bidding.

3. The highest bidder for each lot shall, upon the fall of the hammer, pay to the auctioneer the first half-year’s rent in advance by way of deposit, which shall represent the half-year’s rent as from the 1st January, 1901, and shall cover the period between the date of sale and such 1st January, 1901.

4. The second half-year’s rent shall become payable on the 1st July, 1901, and thenceforth shall be paid half-yearly in advance.

5. As soon as may be after the highest bidder is ascertained, a lease will be prepared, for which there will be a charge of £1, to be paid by the lessee. Such lease shall be for the term of twenty-one years, commencing from the 1st day of January, 1901, and the lessee shall execute the same in triplicate at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, whenever requested so to do.

6. Sections 33, 34, 39, Block III., and 22 and 23, Block IV., are offered subject to the water-rights of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, and its power over the strip of land shown on plan, as granted to it by Wi Parata te Kaka-kura in Memorandum of Transfer No. 30123. This instrument grants to the said company (inter alia) full and irrevocable license, power, and authority to erect dam, penning back waters of creek to such height as may be necessary for its purposes, to cover in water of said dam, and enclose same with fence, and gives power to the company to enter with its servants upon said strip of land to view condition of pipes, repair same, &c., &c., and covenants that no buildings, &c., will be set up on such land without the consent of the said company.

7. Should the highest bidder neglect or fail to comply with any of the conditions, his deposit-money shall thereupon be forfeited to the Commissioner, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the letting or to relet the premises at such time and place and in such manner as he thinks fit.

8. Every lease shall be in the following form, with such modification as the circumstances may require:—

THIS deed, made the __ day of __, one thousand nine hundred and __, under the provisions of “The Native Townships Act, 1895,” between Her Majesty Queen Victoria (who, with her heirs and successors, is hereinafter referred to and included in the expression “the lessor”) of the one part, and __, of __, in the Land District of __, in the Colony of New Zealand (who, with his executors, administrators, and permitted assigns, is hereinafter referred to and included in the expression “the lessee”), of the other part, witnesseth that, in consideration of the rent hereinafter reserved, and of the covenants, conditions, and agreements herein contained and implied, and on the part of the lessee to be paid, observed, and performed, the lessor hereby demises and leases unto the lessee all that piece of land, containing by admeasurement __ acres __ roods __ perches, a little more or less, situate in the Native Township of __, and being allotment numbered __, Block __, on the plan of that township, as the same is more particularly delineated and described in the plan drawn hereon, and therein coloured red in outline; together with all ways, rights, easements, and appurtenances to the same belonging: To hold the demised premises unto the lessee for the term of twenty-one years, commencing on the 1st day of __, one thousand __; yielding and paying therefor the annual rent of __, payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each year during the said term, free from all deductions whatsoever, the first half-yearly payment of such rent having been already made, and the next payment to become due and be made on the 1st day of __ thereafter.