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Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1884, Page 4

CROWN LANDS TO BE LEASED, FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRIOT, 1 WAIRARAPA. IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal. Written tenders (in scaled covers) are invited, in accordance with " The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882." The price tendered must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with six months' rent at tho rate tendered, and a fee of £1 10s for lease and registration, to be lodged with, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at tho Crown Lands Office, Wellington, not later than 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, tho 10th December, 1884. The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December (the following day), at 10 o'clock a.m., when the highest tenderer, if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either in person or by an agent authorised in writing, on the day on which the tenders are opened. Plans and schedules of the sections, and copies of the regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained atjthe District Land Office, Wellington ; at any of the other Land Offices in the colony; and may also be seen at the Railway Stations and Post Offices in the "Wellington Provincial District. The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must bo written on the covers . The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of postage ; neither does the declaration require to be stamped. Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for tho lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington : Provided that in the cose of a person tendering for twe or more leases, such, as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case whore the lands comprised in the Beveral leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s. in respect of each suoh lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same. Any lessee who has fulfilled all conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of bis lease on payment of the price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within, eleven years of the commencement of the lease. Note. — Limits of area for eaoh lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in the colony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga Distriot, about Dreyer's Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and "Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer's Rook, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-five miles, and forty miles. The Mangahao sections are within foui^eon miles of the Town of Woodville. The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington to Napier is now beiag constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected at several points. The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rinra, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places ; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy ; the general character of the soil ia good, and in some places is of first-class quality, the foi mation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there ore large flats as well as broken ground within the area ; it is well watered, and, as the climate is very favourable, the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE. _ ~~ v Survey Dis- •§ Seotion Are& g § tact. a | & P C 3 A. B. P. S. d. Mangahao.. XV. 15 168 0 0 1 3 „ .. „ 18 216 0 8 1 6 „ .. „ 19 121 124 1 1 Hangaone „ 11. 12,13,28 160 021 1 2 „ .. „ 17 143 1 6 1 3 „ .. „ 23,24 128 0 3 1 0 „ .. „ 26,27 157 0 7 1 0 „ .. „ 30 158 127 1 6 „ . . in. 7 287 023 1 0 „ .. „ 9 233 213 1 0 „ .. „ 11 201 031 1 3 „ .. „ 18 121 324 1 2 „ . . , 20 100 034 1 7 „ .. „ 23 101 114 1 6 „ . . VI. 62 /97232 1 3 „ . . VII 7 95 3 29 1 3 „ „ „ 8 214 319 1 4 Kopuaranga 11. 95 117 232 2 0 „ .. „ 100 298 0 0 1 6 „ .. „ 102 192 016 1 6 „ .. „ 104 112 016 1 6 „ .. „ 108 270 324 1 0 „ .. „ 206,207 184 3 8 1 6 „ ..V. 11 193 221 1 6 „ .. „ 24 94 3 38 1 6 Mangaone ..XIV 113 248 216 1 9 „ .. „ 115 254 224 1 9 „ .. „ 118 200 0 0 1 0 „ .. „ 119 184 232 1 6 Kopuaranga I. 33 39 124 1 3 J. W. A. MARCHANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 30th Ootobor, 1884. 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