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a?aa-_-iiuuj J -!__i»iiiitia-.3g-ii_cß_t_«{-a__'»^»--- ■ - 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 Thurs- ! day, the llth December (the followl ing day), at 10 o'clock a.m., when j the highest tenderer, if the tene'er j 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 Land 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 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 ot the other Land Offices in the colony ; an'! may also be seen at the Railway Stations and Posi Offices in the Wellington Provincial District. The numbers of the section and block, with the. name of district, must he written on the covers. The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need r.ot be stamped, being free of postage ; neither does the declaration require to be stamped. Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards maj* become a lessee under this system. In 'the event of anv 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, markpd cheque, or bank draft, n ade payable to tbe Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington: Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in th* 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 improvement** 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 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 wherebv such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in tbe whole, either 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 cclony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in tbe Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer'a Kock, 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'a 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 with in 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 trec. 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 somo places is of firstclass quality, tho formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, <fec. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the --rea ; it is well watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable the iaud, should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. . SCHEDULE. « Upset Rental n;J7 ?y . Block Section. Area. per Acre District, per Annum. a. r. p. s. d Mangahao .. XV. 15 158 0 o 1 3 „ .... 18 215 0 8 16 „ .. 11 19 221 i-4 11 Mangaone .. 11. 22,13,281 to 21 12 , 17 1 ;i 6 13 „ ..11 23,24 12 "o 3 I O n ..11 26,27 157 o 7 10 1 1, .. >i 3o 158 127 16 „ .. 111. 7 287 023 1 0 „ ..» 9 233 213 1 o „ „ 11 201 031 13 • „ .. n l8 121 324 12 „ . . 1, 20 100 034 17 „ . . ,1 23 101 114 16 „ .. VI. 52 97 232 13 •• •• VII. 7 95 329 13 „ -.ii 8 214 319 14 Kopuaranga .. 11. 95 117 232 2 0 „ . . ,; 100 298 00 16 „ .. ,1 102 IQ2 016 16 „ .. ,i 104 112 016 16 „ .. ,» 108 270 324 1 o „ .. „ 206,207 184 3 8 16 „ .. V. 11 193 221 16 „ „ 24 94 338 : 6 Mangaone .. XIV. 113 248 216 19 ii •• ii "5 254 224 1 g „ .. „ 118' 200 00 10 „ . . „ x'xg 184 232 16 Kopuaranga .. I. 33 39 x24 I 3 J. W. A. MARCHANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington; c-Oth October, 1884.