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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 76, 9 December 1884, Page 4

Crown Lands Sale 1 rate tendered, and a fee of £1 10s for j lease and registration, to be lodged I with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Ofice, Wellington, not latter than 4 o'clock p.m., on Wednesday, the 10th Dece/nber, 1884. The tenders wiil be opened at the meeting of the Land Board ou Thurs- i day, tho llth December (the follow- | ing day), at 10 o'clock a.m., when the highest tenderer, if tlie tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by the Board, ? will be declared tho lessee. The i tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either iii 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 regulation? under which leases will fee sold and issued, also forms of tender und declartion respectively, can be obtained at the District Land Office, Wellington ; at any of the other Land Offices in the colony ; and may ' also he 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 he written on the covers. The letter being on " Public Service only," and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need tot 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 'the event of any person tendering for two or moro 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 lesse and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, irade 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 tha 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 (or each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s in respect of eaeh 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 phali be made to any person owning, ner shall any person be capable of becoming the lesseo 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 become either tho owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, includiug the lands comprised in the lease, ofa greater area than 6io acres anywhere in the colony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in tho Mangaone Block,' in the £opuaranga District, about Dreyer's Hock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to tlie main i\.X connecting Masterton ar.d Woodville. Branch roads hare been formed through the sections at Dreyer's Rock, Central Managone, Qawere, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of absut fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirtyfive miles, and forty miles. Tho Mangabao sections arewitbin 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 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 somo places is of firstclass qjialicv. tho formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, <fec. The eountry is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the urea ; it is well watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable tbe laud, should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE. e ir ___ lUpset Rental District Block Section. Area. per Acre " per Aoaiifn. a. r. p. s. i Mangahao .. XV. IJ t)8 o o z 3 H » rd «jo B i 6 n <• o 19 IM 134 - I I Mangaone . . 11. t2,i3|28 j co 21 . 1 a o • • - 17 1 fi 6 13 „ ..1, 2J.24 T2 lo J 1 0 „ „ 26,27 137 0 7 1 o - •' .jj 30 138 127 18 „ .. IIL 7 257 023 I O h 1. 9 233 2 13 I O „ .. rt II 301 031 13 - . . h 18 I2i 324 1 a n :, 40 100 034 17 M . • .> 23 101 114 16 n . . VI. 52 97 a32 13 - •• VH: 7 95 329 t3 n . • i» B Jl4 319 14 Kopwtranga m 11. 93 117 23a 20 n «• h xoo 298 00 16 „ „ m IOS 153 Ort I C M » • r. IC4 112 018 16 * . . „ 108 270 324 1 O „ n 206,207 184 3 8 16 » ..V. II 193 221 16 I. . . 1. 24 94 338 1 6' Mangaone .. XIV. 113 248 2 r6 19 „ - «5 154 a24 19 „ .. 1, 118 200 00 1 o >, .. » 119 184 232 . 16 < opnaranga . . I. 33 39 124 1 3 J. W. A. MARCH ANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. I Drown Land? Office, j Wellington, 30th October, 1884.