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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4164, 26 November 1884, Page 3

CROWN LANDS TO BE LEASED' FORTY - MILE BUSH DISTRICT' WAIRARAPA. IT is hereby notified, that the undermentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal. Writte.n tenders, (in sealed covers) are invited, in aocordance 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 the rate tendered, and a fee of £1 10s for lease and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, not latter thaii 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 10th December, ISS4. The tenders will be opened at tho 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 por acre fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, cither in person or by an agent authorized in writing, on tho 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 at the District Land Office, Wellington ; at any of the other Land Offices in tho 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 be written on the covers. The letter being on '' Public Service only," and addressed to tho Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not bo stamped, being free* of postage; neither does the declaration require to bo stamped. Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under tho system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the Jeposit of a sum equal to one half-year's the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum 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 more leases, sunh as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the A e.t, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a halfyear's rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s in respect of each 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 prico fixed at tho time tho lease was granted, providod the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease. Note.—Limits of area for each lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person bo capable of becoming tho lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under tho Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier iv the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including tho 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 District, 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'3 Rock 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 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 covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy; thejgeneral 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 largo flats as well as broken ground within the area ; it is well watered, and, as tho climate is also very favourable the land should, when cleared arid brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. - SCHEDULE. _■■*' Survey Dis- Block Sect on. Area 3 a tri'ct. go * _ o - 1 a, _ 0 A. R. P. S. d. Mangahao XV. 15 158 0 0 1 3 „ „ 18 215 0 8 1 0 ~ ~ 19 121 124 1 1 Mangaone 11. 12,13,28 160 0 21.1 2 „ „ 17 143 1 61 3 „ „ 23, 24 128 0 3 1 0 ~ „ 26, 27 157 0 7 1 0 ~ ~ 30 158 1 271 0 111. 7 287 0 231 0 „ „ 9 233 2 13 1 0 ~ „ 11 201 031 1 3 „ „ 18 121 324 1 2 ~ 20 100 031 1 7 ~ ~ 23 101 1 14 1 6 „ VI. 52 97 2 321 3 „ VII. 7 95 329 I 3 , ~ 8 214 3 19 1 4 Kopuaranga 11. 95 117 232 2 0 „ „ 100 29S 0 016 „ ~ 102 192 0 161 6 „ ~ 10-1 112 010 1 6 „ „ 108 270 3 24; l 0 ~ ~ 206,207 184 3 8 1 6 „ V. H 193 221 1 6 24 94 3 381 6 Mangaone XLV 113 2-1S 216 1 9 115 254 2 2-1 1 9 „ „ 118 200 0 0 1 0 „ ~ 119 184 2 32|l 0 Kopuaranga! I. 33 39 1 2-ljl 3 i ' , i ~ J. W. A. MARCHANT, ~ Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 30th October, 1884. t7-hus-khus j)urdahs! x7-hus-khus x)urdahs !! The Perfumed Mats !_ co m India, - May now be had from LARGE'S XfIURNITURE J> O O M S, HASTINGS STREET, Rooms can bo made cool and shady by the uso of theso FRAGRANT PERFUMED TATTIES. JAMES -8. LARGE,: Hastings Street, Napier. WAIPAWA COUNTY RACING CLUB. OWNERS are reminded that nominations for the annual Race Meeting on New Year's Day, close with the Secretary at Kaikora, on SATURDAY NEXT, 29th instant, at 8 p.m; F. J. POPPLEWELL, Hon. Secretary. :