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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 75, 4 December 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 JOtb December, 1884. The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Hoard on : imrsI day, the I Ith December (the folio w- | ing day), at 10 i.'clock a.m., when | the highest tenderer, if the tender I shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per aero fixed by the Board, will be declared the leasee. The tenderers must appear at the Lam: Board, either in person or by an agent authorised in writing, on the da^ on which the tenders are opened. Plans and schedules of the sections, and copips of the regulations under wbich 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, wit!) the name of district, must be written ob the covers. The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need «.ot be stamped, being free of postage ; neither does thn declaration require to be stamped. Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In 'the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sura 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 tiie 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 rem 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 al) conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment ol the price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease. Notk. — Limits of area for each 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 land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall b'-corae either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in tho eclony. The sections comprised in the Sohedule are situated at Pahiat.ua, in the Mangaone Block, iv the Ko. puaranga District, about Dreyer's Hock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main mad connecting Masterton and Wood vi iie. Branch roads have been tor-. ied through the sections at Dreyer's Rock, Central Managone, Hawera, and Pahiatna, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miies, 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 thp sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, himui, rata, kahikaiea, wich totara in places ; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy ; the general character of the soil is good, and in sorao places i 9 of firstclass qualny, tho formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c. 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 the climate is also very favourable the land, should, wheu cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE. c,,_,,„ I Upset Rental nslVrS* B loclc Section. Area. per Acre L " smct * per Annum. I a. r. p. 8. d Mangahao .. XV. 15 158 o 0 1 3 „ „ 18 215 o 8 16 „ .. ,■ 19 121 124 1 i Mangaone .. 11. 12,13,28 z ro 21 12 „ .. 1, 17 1 ji 6 13 * „ 23,24 12 to 3 10 „ ..11 26127 157 0 7 x o „ .. •• 3o 158 127 16 „ . . 111. 7 287 023 I o „ .. 9 233 213 1 o n • • ii II 201 031 13 n " n 18 121 324 12 „ . . „ 20 100 034 17 „ .. „ 23 101 I 14 16 •• . . VI. J2 97 232 13 •• •• VII. 7 95 329 13 „ . . ,> 8 214 319 14 Kopuaranga .. 11. 9s 117 232 20 „ .. ,; 100 298 0 0 16 „ .. „ 102 192 016 16 „ . . „ 104 112 016 16 ,1 .- » 108 270 324 10 „ .. „ 206,207 184 3 8 16 „ ..V. ii 193 221 16 1, • • .1 24 94 338 16 Mangaone .. XIV. 113 248 216 19 ,1 •• •• "5 254224 1 9 „ .. „ 118 200 00 10 „ .. „ Ix 9 184 232 x 6 Kopuaranga I. 33 39 x24 13 J. W. A. MARCHANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. I Crown Lands Office, I Wellington, 30th October, 1884.