New Zealand Gazette – 1908 – No. 1

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✨ Land Lease Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(2.) If at such date he is owner of real and personal property the total
value whereof, after deducting the incumbrances thereon, exceeds
one and a half times the capital value (exclusive of buildings) of
the allotment applied for.

The lessee shall reside continuously on the land comprised in his lease,
or by “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” deemed to be so
comprised.
The lessee shall put on the land comprised in his lease substantial
improvements as under, that is to say:—
(a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, to a value equal to 10 per
cent. of the price of the land ; and
(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another
10 per cent. of the price of the land ; and
(c.) Within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another
10 per cent. of the price of the land ; and
(d.) On bush land he shall, in addition to the foregoing improvements,
put, within six years from the date of his lease, substantial improve-
ments of a permanent character to the value of £1 an acre for every
acre of first-class land, 10s. an acre for every acre of second-class
land, and 2s. 6d. an acre for every acre of third-class land.
The lessee shall at all times during the term of the lease maintain in
permanent pasture not less than two-thirds of the total area of the land.
The lease shall as far as practicable be in the form or to the effect set
forth in the Third Schedule hereto, and may contain such additional provisions,
not inconsistent with “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,”
“The Land Laws Amendment Act, 1907,” or these regulations, as the Land
Board thinks fit.

GENERAL.

Subject to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation
Act, 1900,” and its amendments, “The Land Laws Amendment Act, 1907,”
and the foregoing regulations, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,”
and the regulations thereunder with respect to applications for and the
grant of renewable leases, the stipulations and conditions subject to which
such leases may be granted, the rights and powers of the lessor and of every
person or authority in his behalf, the rights, powers, and functions of the
Land Board and the Commissioner in relation to the land and premises comprised
in such leases, and the estate, interest, rights, duties, and liabilities of the lessees,
shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to renewable leases granted under
these regulations.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION for Rural Land for Renewable Lease under “The Land for
Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

To the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of

I HEREBY apply for a renewable lease of Section No. , Block No. .
Survey District, in the Settlement, and I deposit herewith the
sum of £ , being the half year’s rent therefor plus £1 1s. lease fee.

In proof of my fitness and qualifications to hold the land applied for, I hereby
make the following replies to the undermentioned questions :—

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