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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 64, 8 November 1884, Page 4

Crown Lands Sale 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 than 4 o'clock p.m., on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884. The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on ThursI day, the Iltb 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 aero fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers must appear at the Lane 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 ol the regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and doclartion respectively, can be obtained at the District Lnnd Office, Wellington ; at any of the other Land Offices in the colony ; and may also be eeen at the Kailwav 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 cowers. The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to thp Commissioner' of Crown Lands, need tot be stamped, being free of postage ; neither doe? the declaration require to be stamped. .•Any person of eighteen yeara of oge and upwards may become a lessee unaer 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 tho tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum ot £1 10 ato pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid oither in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, irade payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington: Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or moro 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, end 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 price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement oi the lease. Note. — Limits of area for oach lessee : No lease shall be made to any persen owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold laud, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, eitber by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, includiug 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 tho 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's Rock, Central Managone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirtyfive 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, kabikatea, with totara in places ; the undergrowth is, as a ruie, heavy ; the general character of the soil is j good, and in somo places is of firstclass quality, tho formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &o. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within tho area ; it is well watered, and, as tho climate is also very favourable the land, should, when cleared and brought mto cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE. _ Upset Rectal n?J^£ Block Section. Are*. per Acre District. « p^ Annum. a. r. p. a. d Mangahao .. XV. 15 1580 o 13 M « 18 1150 8 16 „ .. n »9 121 124 I I Maogeoce . . 11. 12.13,28 160 021 12 .... 17 143 1 6 13 „ „ 23,24 128 0 3 1 0 a » 86.27 157 o 7 1 o „ . . « 30 158 127 16 „ . . IIL 7 287 023 1 O .. 9 133 213 f on * n XX 201 031 13 . h l 8 121 324 13 • » 20 xoo 034 17 a •• r 23 101 114 16 „ . . VI. 5a 97 232 x 3 H „ VII. 7 95 329 13 „ '• • .. 8 214 319 x 4 Kopuaranga . . 11. 93 117 232 a o H .. n xoo 298 o 0 16 „ . . n XO2 192 016 X 6 H 11 104 112 016 16 „ „ 108 270 324 10 „ .. „ 206,207 184 3 8 x 6 „ A.V. xx 193 221 16 .. 24 94338 x 6 Mangaone .. XIV. 113 248216 19 » .. n "5 254 a«4 19 „ ..,,*.' XIS 2000 0 X O „ » "9 184 232 X 6 Kopuaranga .. I. 33 39 x 24) 1 3 J. W. A. MARCHANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, "A 1\ Wellington, iJOth October, 1884.