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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

Small Grazing-run, Wellington, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 26th July, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Friday, the 30th August, 1901, at the half-yearly rental noted below. In case of more than one application for the 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.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAITOTARA COUNTY.—MOMA-HAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

Weighted with £829 as valuation for improvements.

This run is situated in the Puketotara Block, and in what is generally known as the Tokomaru district. The access is from Kai-iwi Railway-station, which is about eighteen miles distant via Bayly’s Road, which is formed for dray traffic to within about one mile and a half of the run. The run comprises broken land, mainly spurs with gullies or gorges between. Small patches of sloping ground may be found for house, yards, &c. The soil is of fair quality, but rather light, resting on sandstone formation. The forest comprises hinau, matai, rata, birch, rewarewa, a few totaras and small maires, with thick undergrowth of rangiora, horopito, karamu, lawyers, &c. The run is well watered by small streams. The elevation ranges from about 500 ft. to 1,600 ft. above sea-level. The improvements comprise 560 acres felled (partly overgrown) and grassed, about 75 chains of fencing, buildings, and yards, valued at £829.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

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 made equal to one year’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.

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

Crown Land in Wellington for Sale under Section 114 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1901.

IT is hereby notified, in pursuance of section 240 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the under-mentioned Crown land will be offered to the holder of the adjoining land under section 114 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on and after the 8th November, 1901.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION No. 41, Block III., Makuri Survey District, 10 acres.

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

Land in Southland for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 30th April, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 7th day of August, 1901, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Lands in Westland for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 24th June, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Wednesday, the 21st August, 1901, at 2.30 p.m.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Term, 10 years.

Subject to the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.” Possession will be given on the day of sale.

The purchaser must deposit the statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the amount of the half-year’s rent and license-fee on the fall of the hammer.

W. G. MURRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.