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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 70, 22 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 J.anda Office, Wellington, not latter thiin 4 o'clock p.m., on Wednesday, the 10th December, 18S4. The temiera will bfi opened at tbe meeting of 'he Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December (the following day), at 10 ("'clock a.m., vvhen tbe hig-best ton den r, if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. Tbe tenderers must appear at the LanBoard, 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 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; an-J may also be seen at the Railway Statious and Posi Offices in the Wellington Provincial District. The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written oh tbe 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 under this system. In f 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 of £1 10s to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, nrade 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 attheratctenderod (or 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 of the lease. Note.—^-Limits of area for each lessee : No lease shall be made to any persen owning, nor shall any porsop be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under leas a or license under tinCrown whereby such person sh;ill bacorie either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other persoi* or persons, includiug the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than i 640 acres anywhere in th" cclonry. Thje sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in tbe Mangaone Block, in the Kopuar^nga District!, about Dreyer's KockL near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting .Masterton and Woodviilc. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer's Rockk Central Managone, Uawera, and [Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen | miles, xhirty-one miles, thirtyfive Jmiles, and forty miles. The ; Mantahao" sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville. The Main. Trunk Railway from Wei lin£tb l n to ! Napier is now being constructed to a .point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected 'at peVerat points, ' ' Th,e ; jwliple of the sections are covered with forest,' the principal trees being tawo,. riipu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in plac.s; the undergrowth ;is, as a iue, heavy; the general character of the soil is goodj, and in some places is of firstclasa quality, the formation being limestone, clay marl, sandscone, &c. Tt c" douiitry is "generally hilly and ''undiilatiug, but there "are largffflats 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 brou *ht into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. j . SCHEDULE. I _ Upset Rental Supey Block Section. Area. per Acre Dl f nct - per Annum. - -I -. . . j a. r. p. 8. d Mangajhao .. XV. 15 158 o o 1 3 ,1 .. „ 18 215 0 8. 16 ... ,1 .. .. 19. .121 1 24. II Mangaone .. 11. 12,13,2811(1021 1 3 T •• „ 17 Kit 6 l 3 ' ..11 23,24 12 to 3 1 o - - 4 •• » . 26,27 157 0 7 10 ,k .. „ 3o 158 127 16 ,; .. 111. 7 287 023 10 4 „ '9 2332-13 1 o J n XI 201 031 13 ,J .. n 18 121 324 12 ,1 .. „- so 100034- 1 7 4 •• "'» a 3 IOX 114 X 6- ■ '!, .. vii. .7 95329 . 13 , .. •• • 8 214-3-I9 14 Kopuatanga .. - 11. 95 117 232 20 , ','..",', ; xoo 298 00 16 , •; : ■ "„ 102 192 o" 16 1 6 ' 1 • mT . "!• -104 112 016 • x 6 , .. „ 206,207 1843 Bx6 , .. V. 11 193 2ax " 1 6 1 •• • it 24 94 338 1 6 Mangapnp .t-XIW. ; fii3;/ 249.2 16 / I^-9 „ x .'. ,, v * 254 2 24 ' i 9 J , „ 118 200 or o 10 ,] » r "9_ 184 232 16 Kopuaijangia X I'iM p> 3™ 39 124 ' I 3 ~~~| fcM*. A- MARCHANT, i Commissioner of Grown Lands. Crown Lands Office,. Wellington, 30th October, 1884.