Crown Lands Sale rate tendered, and a fee,pf £1 10s for lease aud registration, to be lodged with "the Coniiuisfnoner of Crown Lands, at the frown T.ande Office. Wellington, not latter than 4 o'clock p.m.. on Wodnesday, tbe 10th December, 1884 The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on ! liursday, the 11th D cember (the following day), at 10 <>'clock a.m., when i tbe highest tenHerrr, if the tender | shall equal or exceed the unset annual rental per acre fixed b}' the Board, will be declared the lessee. Tlulen.'erevs must ijppear at tlie Lan> Board, eirher in peson or by an agent authorised in writing, on the day on which the tenders are opened. Pb.n« and schedules of the sections, j and copies of the regulations under which lenses will be sold and issupd, also forms of tPiider and declartion respectively, can be obtained j at tho District Laud Office, Wellington ; at any ot 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 be written on the covers. The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to the Commission 2r of Crown Lands, need rot be stamped, being free of postage ; neither does tho declaration require to be stamped. -•Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee uucier this system. In 'the event of any pnrson tondering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum pqual to one half-year's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum ot -£1 10s to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, trade payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington : Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in rhe aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case .whore the lands comprised in the several* leases adjoin each other, in such ease the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, end also«-he sum of £1 10s in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of some. Any lessee who has fulfilled all conditions of improvement* within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment; of the price fixed at the time ihe lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease. Note. — Limits of area for each lessee : No lefi.°e shall be made to any perscn 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 thr 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, includiug the lands comprised in the lea9e. of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in tho eclony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Maneaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer's Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connedting Masterton and Woodviile. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer's Rock, Central Managone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Maste'rjon qi' about fourteen miles, thirty-pue miles, thirtyfive. : miles, and forty : miles. i ;'J!he JMLangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodviile. Tbe Mfcinv Trunk ! ifrdm ■ Wellington. to Napier is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north or Masterton. Sites for- railway stations have been selected at, several, points, i 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; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of firstclass quality, tho formation being limestone, clay marl, sandsoone, &c. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but tkere are large flats as well as broken ground within tho area ; it is well watered, and, as tLo 'climate is also very favourable the laud, should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE, . : — : — : 1 ■"— n r __, , I Upset Rental burvey BloclTSecHon. Area. • per Acre l>lstnct ' j ' per Annum. I I a. r. p.' 6. d Mangahao .. XV. , 15 158 o o I 3 „ .. „ ; iB 215 o 8 16 „ .. 1, )' ', 19 121 1 24! 11 Mangaone .. 11. '12,13,281600211 1 2 , » •• •• ' 17 143 1 6 ; 13 1,, .. ,1 j 23,24 123 0 3 10 » 26,27 o 71 .10 i, ;. 30 :15s 1 27: ■■ "i 6 „ .. 111. 7 287 o 23' io- ,. .. m j 9 233 2 J3: 10' .. h I II 201 031 13: „ .. n 18 :i2i 3 24' 12! . „ .. ,1 - 20 .jxx) o 34! i 7 1 ■1 .< ,1 23 'ror 1 141 . 1 6 .. VI I 52 |97 a 32! 13. „ ..I VII. 7 I 95 3 29, 13 v " ••) , v <? 11. 8 ' < 21l » 3 2 9! z * Kopuaranga ..' 11. 95 '.iij 2 32! a o . ji. . .. ■; 100 J298 ooj 16 . n •• 11 *°2 X92 OX6} 16 n .. it , i 104 1,112 o i6i 16' „]' I.* ••! 108 -270 3 z4L.-l.iO. , ; 206,207 1184 38; 16 „ .. V.. j■ . 11 .193 2 21! 1 6 i •1 • • ... 24 194 3 38! 16 Mangaone .. XIV. 113 248 2 16' 1 '. .;• .. U "5/ 1254 2} 24: i> 9 „ . . I 118 200 qOl 10, .. I 119 JIS4 i 321 1 6 r Kopuaranga . r I. 1 .33| 39 I 24) 13 . J. W. A. MARCH ANT^ Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Land? (Jfflce, , | Wellington, JJOth October, 1884.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 66, 13 November 1884, Page 4
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