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Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5490, 9 December 1884, Page 3

CROWN LANDS TO BE LEASED, FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRICT, WAIRARAPA. IT is hereby notified that the under mentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal. Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited, in accordance with "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Aot, 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 the rate tendered, and a fee of £1 10 a for lease and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Office, Welling- j ton, not later that 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 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 whioh leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained at the 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 blook. with the name of district, must be written on the covera. 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 18 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 Bum of £1 10s to pay for the 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 case of a person tendering for two or rriore leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several 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 eaoh such 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 his 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 each lessee : ho lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person Ye 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 Croven whereby Buch person ahaH become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by Mmself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease of a greater area than 650 acres anywhere in the colony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pabiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer's Rock, near Dreyerton, andfrontupon or are adjacent to the main road connecting I Masterton and Wood ville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer's Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from I Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-fiye miles, and forty miles. The Mangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville. The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington to Napier is now being 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 oovered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places ; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy ; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of first class quality, the formation being limestone, clay, marl, sandstone, &c. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large fiats as well as broken ground within the area ; it is well watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, argricultural purposes. SCHEDriLE. hi Survey Block. Section. Area. #ga District. §a"3 P Pi 1 A. R;P. S. D. Mangahao... XV. 15 158 0C 1 3 i „ „ 18 215 0 8 1 6 1 „ „ 19 121 124 11 Mangaono... 11. 12,13,28160 021 1 2

„ „ 1-1 l^O X v J. O „ „ 23,24 128 0 3 1 0 „ 26,27 157 0 7 1 0 „ „ 30 158 127 1 6 „ 111. 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. 52 97 2 32 1 3 „ VII. 7 95 329 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. MARCH ANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 30th October, 1884. WOOL. THE undersigned is prepared to make liberal advances against wool, or produce for shipment to London, FREEMAN R. JACKSON. WOOL. THE undersigned are Cash buyers of Wool, or willing to make liberal advances against same for sale in the London market, JOHNSTON & CO., Wanganui; MONEY. MONEY to lend on freehold security at current rates. FREEMAN R. JACKSON. THE NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA, LIMITED. Established 1869. THE First Office in the World to apply the surrender value of Life Policies in paying the premiums, thereby preventing the lapse of policies until the surrender value is exhausted. Assurances in force exceed £4,000,000 ; annual income, upwards of j £150,000. For Prospectuses, Forms of; Pr- j posal, or information, apply to j ARTHUR FILMEK, District Agent, Post Office Chambeis, Wanganui j Or to WILLIAM LINGA&D, Travelling Agent, Waoganui