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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, being Section 17, Frasertown, in the Wairoa District and Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay. The land is Crown-granted to John Whittingham, described as a military settler in the Wairoa District. John Evans, of Frasertown, is at present in occupation of the land.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 17th day of August, 1901.
J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 36.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 1901.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Salvation Army.

Adjutant Frederick Rowley.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th March, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, for the Civil Service Senior Examination of January, 1902, candidates may read “The Tempest” as an alternative to “King Lear,” one of the special books already prescribed for the examination. The examination papers will contain alternative questions on these two plays, in addition to questions on the other work set.

W. C. WALKER.

Crown Lands Notices.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 16th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on and after Tuesday, the 22nd day of October, 1901.

In case of more than one application for the run being received on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Situated about twenty-eight miles from Mossburn Railway-station, and eight miles from Manapouri Township. Hilly country, soil fair, vegetation white tussock and fern, gravel formation. Burdened with £20 1s. 3d. valuation for improvements, consisting of half cost of fence at eastern boundary.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village Homestead in Wellington open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1901.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on and after Wednesday, the 16th of October, 1901.

If more than one application be received for the 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. If the section be not applied for on the 16th October, 1901, it will be open thereafter for application at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD ALLOTMENT. — UPPER MAKURI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Weighted with £32 3s. for improvements.

Locality and Description of Land.

This section is situated in the Upper Makuri Village Settlement. The access is from Makuri Township, which is about three miles distant by metalled dray-road. The section comprises flat land; the soil is alluvial, resting on gravel formation, well watered by Makuri Stream. The elevation is about 1,000 ft. above sea-level. The improvements comprise 10 acres felled and grassed, 15 chains fencing, and a house, 24 ft. by 12 ft. by 9 ft., containing two rooms.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The above land is first-class land, and is a village-homestead allotment, open for selection on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

2. The day on which the land shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the 16th day of October, 1901.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for a lease 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, Wellington; and a lease 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, 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 lessee shall hold more than two allotments in the Upper Makuri Village Settlement, and such 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.

9. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in the 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,