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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3472, 10 February 1880, Page 3

Public Notifications PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. Crown Lands OfKce, Auckland, January 28, 1880. Under and in pursuance of the powers vested in the Waste Lands Board by " Tbe Lnnd At*. 1877," it is hereby notified that the Buml Lands mentioned in the Schedule heieunder will beopnn for selection under the "Homestead System," on TUESDAY, the 2nd day of March next. D. A. TOLE, Chief Commissioner of Waate Landß Board, SCHEDULE. BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT. Okaihatt No. 2 Block. 1500 acres first'Claßß land. Applications for this land to be made to Captain Burleigh. Okaihau. x HOKIANGA DISTRICT. Te Tio Biock. 200 acres second-class land. Application for this land to be made to tbe Chairman of the County Council, Hokianga. Waikawatt Block. Between. Coromandel and Tararu. 3000 acres second'dass land. Applications for this land to be addressed to the Crown Lands Ranger, core of Mr Hawkes, Tapu. KAIPARA DISTRICT. Paiahoa Block. 2000 acres second-class land. Applications for this land to be made ,to the Chairman of of the District Board, Paparoa. BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT. HuKEBENtJi Block. 500 acres second-class land. Application for this land to be made toMrJae. H. Marehall, Kawakawa. WAIPU DISTRICT. Waiitj Block. 100 acres second-clasa land. Application for this land to be made to Mr Duncan McKenzie, Waipu. Forms of application can be obtained, and plans of the lands inspected *t this office, and at the residences of theabove-named agents. "THE LAND ACT, 1877." Homestead Ststem. conihtions of occupation. 1. The area allowed to be selected by each person of the age of 18 years or upwards shall be, of first class land* fifty acres, or of second class lands, seventy five acres, and for pereons under 18 years of age, of first class lands, twenty acres, or of second class lands thirty acres: Pro?ided that at the total quantity to be selected by any one family or number of persons occupying'tbe one housebold shall not exceed two hundred acres of first-class, or three hundred acres of secondclass lands. 2. Within three months after the selection has been approved to tbe Board, the selector •hall commence to reside on his selection and shall continue to reside continuously thereon for five years from tbe date of cuch approval as aforesaid. 3. Within eighteen months after such approval the selector shall erect on his selection a permanent dwelling bouse of wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to Homestead System selections. 4. In each year there shall be brought under cultivation orie fifteenth of the area of such selection, if open land, and one twentyfifth if bush land, so that at tbe end of the five years' one third of the selection of open land, or one fifth of bush land, shall be under cultivation. SURVEY REGULATIONS. 1. All surveys shall be made by surveyors authorised by the Surveyor-General, and in accordance with instructions to settlement surveyors issued, or which may be issued by him. 2. There shall be paid for the survey of any area— _, £ s. d. Not exceeding 30 acres .. .."600 Exceeding 30 and up to 50 acres 0 3 0 per acre • '- „ SO „ 109 „ 02 6 „ 100 „ 200 „ 02 0 per acre, but not less than £12 103. 200 „ 300 „ 0 1 8 per acre, but not less than £20. 3. Whenever two or more sections are surveyed together by tbe same surveyor, one third of the above rates shall be deducted for all areas above 50 acres, and whenever also more than one half the length of the boun dary lines ehall run through vegetation lees than six feet high, one third of tbe schedule rates shall be deducted. , 164 Lands and Houses FOR SALE. WAITOKI BLOCK was subdivided specially for Thames men who wanted small holdings on easy terms —Uialess taken up shortly this Valuable Block, like many others in the splendid Valley of the Thames, is likely to pass into the hands of a distant Capitalist. 100, aleo 80, ncres, WHANGAMARINO BLOCK, near tbe' Waikato River. — Price, 15s an acre. Mr A. D. Bennett has instructed us to ' sell his very Valuable and wellsituated F&EEHOLD SECTION at Tarawai. This iB an excellent situation for a Villa Residence. Particulars on application. Those Excellent Business Premises and Freehold Allotment fronting Pollen and Mackay streets, at present in the occupation of Mr Heldt. Price £400. \ A Six-roomed COTTAGE in Pollen street, Sbortland, at present in the occupation of Mr Cassin. WANTED, a Small COTTAGE, wellsituated, and in good repair. Ground rent must be low. WANTED to LEASE—with purchasing clause—a comfortable Dwelling with about an acre of ground. Several Cottages for SALE and TO LET. WANTED, Volunteer Land Scrip at Highest Rates. FRATER BROTHERS, LAND AGENTS, AtJCKLAKD AND THAMES. 82