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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Village-homestead Allotments in Southland Land District
open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th March, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the village-homestead allotments enumerated in the Schedule hereto will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” on and after Wednesday, the 31st day of May, 1905.

For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the lands enumerated in the said Schedule are classed as “light-bush land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for the period of three years from the date from which in each case respectively such lands are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such lands during such period.

After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded: provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

If more than one application is received for the same allotment on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTH LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTH LAND COUNTY.
Village-homestead Allotments.—Light-bush Land.

SEAWARD BUSH TOWNSHIP.

| 35 | III. | A. R. P. | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 38 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 39 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 56 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 67 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 68 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 77 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |
| 78 | " | 5 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 5 0 |

Light-bush land, covered with bush of no commercial value, consisting of kamahi and red and white pine, fit for fencing and firewood only; undergrowth heavy; good soil, capable of yielding good grass when surface-sown. Sections 35 and 56 are accessible by good road, and distant one mile from Tisbury Railway-siding. Sections 38 and 39 are situated about one mile and a half from Tisbury. There is a formed and metalled road to within 10 chains of Section 38. Sections 67, 68, 77, 78 accessible by fair summer road, and distant two miles from Clifton Railway-siding. Limit of holding, 20 acres.

WAIMATUA VILLAGE, INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.

| 9 | XXIII. | 5 1 2 | 1 7·2 | 0 4 3 |
Weighted with 10s., valuation for fencing.

| 11 | XXIII. | 13 2 0 | 1 7·2 | 0 10 9 |

Light-bush land, covered with bush of no commercial value, consisting principally of kamahi fit only for fencing and firewood; good deep black soil; water can be obtained by sinking a few feet. Section 9 is situated opposite Waimatua Railway-siding, and Section 11 distant about 5 chains therefrom. Limit of holding, 50 acres.

CENTRE BUSH VILLAGE, HOKONUI SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 725 | .. | 24 0 20 | 1 2·4 | 0 14 6 |

Situated about two miles from Centre Bush Railway-siding, by a fair summer road. Land covered with light bush, suitable only for firewood; soil fair. Limit of holding, 60 acres.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District open for Selection on Perpetual Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th March, 1905.

THE undermentioned Crown land, having been surrendered in terms of section 156 of “The Land Act, 1885,” will be open for selection on perpetual lease on and after Wednesday, the 31st day of May, 1905.

If more than one application be received for the section on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day at 11 a.m. at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTH LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTH LAND COUNTY.—TOETOE SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Situation fair. Distance from Fortrose, about five miles and a half. Clay formation. Light bush of no commercial value, and fit only for fencing and firewood; heavy undergrowth. Well watered.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICE.

Convening Meeting of Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council under the Provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

Maori Lands Administration Office,
Otorohanga, 6th April, 1905.

IT is hereby notified that a meeting of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council will be held at Otorohanga on Tuesday, the 9th day of May, 1905, at 11.30 o’clock in the forenoon, for the transaction of all such business as may be lawfully brought before it.

GEO. T. WILKINSON,
President of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council.

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES.

Notice of Nomination for Committee for Incorporated Block.

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
GISBORNE DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that the persons whose names are set out in the second column of the Schedule hereunder have been proposed for nomination as candidates for the Committee to administer the blocks set out in the first column.

Dated at Gisborne, this 5th day of April, 1905.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.