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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 9, 9 December 1884, Page 3

Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.' The price tendered must be stated m writing us well as m figures, nc coinpanied liy a statutory declaration together with six months' rent at the vate tendered, and a fee of £1 10s for lease and regiwtrntion, to lie lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands/ at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, not later than 4 o'clock p.m, o$ Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884. • The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December ((he following day), at 10 o'clock a.m., when the kighest tenderer, if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per ucre fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers m n.sb appear at the Land Board, either m persou or by an agent authorized m 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 declaration respectively, can be obtained at the District Land Office, Wellington ; at any of the other Land Offices m the colony ; and may also be seen at th« Railway Siations and Post Offices m Wellington Provincial District. The numbers of the section and bloc^l, witfi tho 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 not 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 more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year's rent of the tender largest m amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s to pay for ihe lease and registration thereof, , paid either m cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington : Provided that m the case of a person tendering for two or more lea«es, such as he may m the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, m tho caee where the land« comprised iv the several leases adjoin each other, m such case the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the rate , tendered for each such lease, and also the vuru of j-1 10s iv respect of each such lease, the fee for pi eparation 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, pro vided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease.. Note.— Limits of area for each lessee : No lesise shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who holds any freehold Jand, or land held under leane or license under the Crown whereby such peison shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier m tho whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including tho lands comprised m the lea*e, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere m the colony. The sections comprised m the Schedule aro situated nt Pahiatua, m the Mangaone Block, m the Kopnaranga District, about Dreyer'a Rock, 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 Hock, Central Mangaone, Hawe-ra, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively irom Masterton of about.fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty five miles, and forty miles. The Mangalmo sections are within fourteen 'miles of Ike Town of Woodville. 'The Main Trunk Railway from Welhngtou to Napier is now being cpnstrucied 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, (he principal trees being tnwa, riinu, hin.iu, vata, kahikatca, with totaia m places; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy ; the general character of the soil is good, and m some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large fiats 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 brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE.. 2 • ' hog ' og I • «♦« 1 ! i «<i QQ P »■ Manga a. r. f. s. d. hao XV. 15 158 0 0 1 3 „ „ 18 215 0 8 1 6 „ „ 19 121 124 1 1 Manga one 11. 12,13,28 160 021 1 2 „ „ 17 143 16 13 „ „ 23,24 128 0 3 1 0 „ „ 26, 27 157 0 7 1 0 „ „ 30 158 127 1 6 „ 111. 7 287 023 1 0 „ „ 9 233 2 13 1 0 „ 11 201 031 13 „ „ 18 121 324 1 2 „ „ 20 100 034 1 7 „ „ 23 101 1 14 1 6 „ VI. 52 97 232 1 3 „ VII. 7 95 329 1 3 8 214 319 1 4 1 KopHR ranga 11. 95 117 232 2 0 „ „ 100 298 0 0 16 102 192 016 1 6 i -.:. 104 112 016 1 6 108 270 324 1 0 „ 206, 207 184 3 8 16 , V. 11 193 221 16 " „ 24 94 338 1 6 Manga one XIV 113 248 216 1 9 „ 115 254 224 1 9 , ' 118 200 0 0 1 0 J| „ 119 184 232 16 Kupnn ranga I. 33 39 124 1 3 r J. W. A. MARCH ANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. ) Crown Lands Office, 3 Wellington, 30th October, 1884.