CROWN LANDS, TE AROHA.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 161, 17 July 1886, Page 2

CROWN LANDS, TE AROHA.

The last Government Gazette to hand notifies as follows : — The whole of the suburban sections at Te Aroha, gazetted iv December last as open for leasing for thirty years with perpetual right of renewal, have (with the exceptions of sections 69, 77, and 84, wnich adjoin the railway station reserve and sections 85 and 86 corner sections) been withdrawn. The following sections are now open for village special settlements for perpetual leasing upon the terms and conditions fixed by Order-in-Council June 2nd, 18oti, viz. : Suburbs of Te Aroha ; Block 11, Section 52, 53, SG, 57, 59 j Block 9, Sections 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,75, 78, 79. 80, 81, 82, 88, 89, containing from 7 to 13 tecreseach. The following are the most important clauses of the

Regulations. The land to be selected under these, regulations shall be held on perpetual lease for the first term of thirty years, and for subsequent terms of twenty-one years, without any right of acquiring the freohold. The rental shall be based on the capital value of the hind, which shall in no case be less than 20s an acre. Married men will have preference as selectors under these regulations. No greater aiea than fifty acres will bo allotted to any one npp'icant. Subject to such conditions as* the Steward of Village Hetllonunts may prescribe, and uiihin the fii^c five years of the date of the selection, an advance of a sum not exceeding £,'2O will be made to assist «i selector in the erection of a house on his selection ; and in bush lands a further sum not exceeding £2 10s an acre up to but not exceeding an area of 20 acres will be advanced for bush- felling' and for grassing from such sums as may be appropriated by Parliament for theso purposes. The annual rent shall be 5 per cent on the capital value of the land, together with 5. per cent on such sums as may bo advanced in terms of clause 7, payable half-yen rly, on the Ist day of January or July next ensuing after the lapse of cix months from the dates of. the &election and advances respectively. Each selector or transferee will be required to occupy his selection as his home, and to make permanent improvements as required by clauses 11- and "12 Each selector 'shall within two years cultivate one acre, ancl wiehiu four years

the half of the remainder, of his selection. Permanent improvement shall mean — (d). Fencing the land with timber or other durable materials, not being a brush fence ; or (b ) Breaking up and laying down the same in English or other cultivated grass ; or (c.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or other crops therein $ and, in case of bush lands, the felling and clearing of timber and sowing of grass. Selectors shall not subdivide or sublet their holdings > but, with the couseut of the Commissioner of Crown. Lands for the district, they may transfer them, provided that all the conditions of these regulations have been fulfilled to date of application to transfer. 2so person who has an interest in any land in the colouj shall be eligible as a selector under these regulations. No selector stall take up more than one allotment under these regulations, which shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any person whomsoever.