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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 67, 15 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 Cmwn Lands, at the Crown lands Office, Wellington, not latter than 4 o'clock p.m., on Wpdnesduy, the 10th December, 1884 The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the Tlth 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 Lanri 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 uuder which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declartion 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 block, with the name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need rot 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 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 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 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 eacb such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same. Any lessee who has *ulnl'ed 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 : No lease shall be made to any persen owning, nor shall any nerson 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 frown 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 tbe lease, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in the eclony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer's Kock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to tiie 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 miies, thirtyfive miles, and forty miles. The Mangahao sections are witli in fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville. Tbe Main Trutik 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 treesbeing 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 qualify, 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 the area ; it is well watered, and, as tiie climate is also very favourable the lnnd, should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE. c I Upset Rental survey i Block ! Sect jo n . Are _. , pt . r Acre DlstnLt - j per Aanum. j ia. r. p. s. d Mangahao .. XV. : 15 158 00' 1 3 ! 18 '215 08 16 „ . . „ i ig ■ ,121 124 II Mangaone .. 11. ,12,13,28:160021 I 2 .... 17 143 16 13 „ . • .. ! 23,24 '123 0 3, 1 o „ .. „ I '26,27 .157 07 1 o „ .. „ 3o :ijS 1 27 1 6 „ .. 111. 7 257 023 10 „ ..| „ 0 233 2i3 1 0 „ ••( tl " |20t 031 13 11 ■• 11 ! l 8 121 324 i a „ .. „ 20 100.0 34 I. 7 „ •• .■ 1 23 ,loz 114 .I. 6 „ ..1 VI. 1 52 1972 32 13 ■1 •• VII. 7 . 95 3 29 13 1. .. .1 : 8 ,2:4 3 19 14 Kopuaranga .. 11. ! 95 117 232 20 „ .. ,; I 100 1298 00 16 „ „ 102 192 016 16 „ .. 1. 104 112 016 16 „ '.. „ 108 '270 324 10 „• .. „ 206,207 184 3 8 1 6 „ ..V. 11 193 221 16 „ .... 24 94 338 16 Mangaone .. XIV. 113 248 216 19 „ .. ii "5 254224 1 9 „ .. „ 118 - 200 00 10 „ .. „ 119 IS4 232 16 Kopuaranga .. I. 33 39 124 13 J. W. A. MARCHANT, . Commissioner of Crown Lands Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 30tb October, 1334.