Nov. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2115

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the 30th day of January, 1901.

3. The rentals stated above shall be the prices 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, and the valuation 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. 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 stated 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.

Small Grazing-run, Hawke’s Bay, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 20th November, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on and after Wednesday, 30th January, 1901, at the half-yearly rental noted. In the event of more than one application being received on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIROA AND COOK COUNTIES.

First-class Pastoral Country.

These runs are hilly forest country. About 2,500 acres of Run 75 and 800 acres of Run 76 are good soil, covered with tawa, rimu, totara, kahikatea, matai, rewarewa, mahoe, miro, and the balance being black-birch country with poor soil.

Both runs are well watered. Distance from Wairoa by road, thirty-six to thirty-eight miles.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forest Reserve in Canterbury for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 21st November, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to noon on Wednesday, the 30th January, 1901, for the lease of the under-mentioned forest reserve for a term of fourteen years.

In the event of no tender being received for the land at the time named, it will remain open for lease on application at the upset rental and for the term stated.

SCHEDULE.

One hundred and fifty acres of open land in Forest Reserve No. 3272, situated at Glentui, near Oxford, Mount Thomas Survey District. Upset annual rental, £10.

Terms and Conditions.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or money order for the amount of six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease-fee.

2. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance free of all deductions whatsoever.

3. The land comprised in the lease shall continue under “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” subject only to the right of the lessee to use the land for grazing purposes.

4. The lessee shall have no right to fell or remove from the land any live or dead trees or timber, whether standing or lying on the ground.

5. All persons duly authorised in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of the Act aforesaid, or for felling or removing from the land any trees or timber as aforesaid.

6. The lessee, at the expiration of the term of his lease, may remove all fencing and buildings erected by him on the land.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Tuatini Township, Hawke’s Bay Land District, for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 12th November, 1900.

THE under-mentioned sections in the Township of Tuatini will be offered for lease by public tender, for a term of twenty-one years, with the right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Wednesday, the 16th day of January, 1901. Sections not applied for on the 16th January, 1901, will be open thereafter at upset ground-rentals noted below.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Tuatini Township.