2714

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No.83

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.—OHAKUNE VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Village-homestead Allotments.

Ohakune is distant about 201 miles from Wellington, and is situated on the Waimarino-Waiouru Road at its junction with the Pipiriki-Raetihi Road, near the North Island Main Trunk Railway. It is the outlet of a splendid sawmilling and dairying district, and contains a post and telegraph office, creamery, school, Town Hall, and numerous shops and accommodation houses. The sections comprise the lands stretching northward from that portion of Ohakune Town-ship recently offered to the Ohakune Railway-station. They

comprise for the most part flat and undulating land, wet in places. With the exception of Blocks XVIII and XIX, which have been felled and grassed, the sections are all in heavy standing bush, comprising principally rimu, birch, matai, and kahikatea. Light soil, partly on clay and partly on grit formation.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are village-homestead allotments, open for selection on renewable lease for periods of sixty-six years under the provisions of "The Land Act, 1908" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act").

2. The day on which the said lands shall be open for selection shall be Tuesday, the 1st day of December, 1908.

3. The rentals stated above shall be the prices at which the lands 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, Wellington; 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 prescribed declaration.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year's rent, together with the lease and registration fee (£1 1s.), immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot; also the rent for the period elapsing between the date of the lease and the due date of such half-yearly payment.

7. All rent must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 180 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is payable as before provided.

8. Preference will be given over all other applicants to landless married bona fide co-operative workers with children who have been engaged on the North Island Main Trunk Railway or on any of the roads or other works pertaining thereto, and preference will be given to single co-operative workers employed on the same works over all other applicants not so employed. In order to secure preference every applicant will require to forward with his application a certificate, signed by an officer of the Public Works or Roads Department, showing that he has been employed on the works mentioned for a period not less than three months during the twelve months preceding the ballot.

9. 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 162, 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 159, 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 divide, 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. No lessee shall apply for or hold more than one allotment, and such allotment shall be held for his or her sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever. Persons who already hold land shall not be eligible as selectors.

12. It shall be a condition of the lease that all contracts or agreements entered into by the lessee for the sale or disposal of the timber on the land comprised in the lease shall be in writing, and shall be submitted to the Land Board for approval. Every such contract or agreement shall contain a condition that the timber is to be cut on a face, and well and systematically cleared up to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. The royalty from the sale or disposal of the timber shall be paid by the lessee to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington, in the manner to be prescribed by the Land Board, and shall be calculated at rates not less than those prescribed in the schedule of royalties fixed by the Forest Regulations. The royalty so paid shall be credited by the Receiver of Land Revenue towards the rent that may become due by the lessee. In the event of the lessee's interest in the section being cancelled through any reason, any royalty so received in excess of the rent that may have become due at the date of cancellation shall become forfeited to the Crown, or, should his interest be forfeited, he shall thereupon cease to have any interest in the timber thereon, and in the event of his having entered into any contract or agreement for its disposal, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, with the approval of the Land Board, may thereupon take his place as a party thereto.

13. Every lease shall be issued subject to the condition that the Crown reserves the right to construct and lay down tramways, or to authorise any person to do so, through the land comprised therein.

14. 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