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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1854, 2 December 1884, Page 3

crown lands to be leased forty-mile bush district, WAIRARAPA. * mentioned flections are open for lease fora term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal. . _ Written tender (in sealed covers) are invited, in accordance with (i The ; Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882. The price tendered must be stated in Writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with ms months'rent at'lhe rate tendered, and a fee of II 10a for lease and registration, lo be lodged with the Commissioner of Grown Lands, at the Crown Lands office. Wellington, nob later than & o'cluck p.m' on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884 The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December (the following day,) at 10 o'olock . a.m,, when the highest tenderer, if the tender 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 peraon or by an agent authorized 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, alao forms of tender and. declaration respectively, can be/obtained at the District Land. Office,: Wellington j at-.any of the other Land Offices in the colony; and ta'ay also be seen at the Railway stations and Post Offices' in the" Welltnglon Provincial District. ■•,.• • ■

f The numbers of tho Beclion. and block with the name of disaict,'must he written on the oovers. 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 Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may becomo a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more lea«es ihe deposit of a sum equal to one halfyear's rent of the tender largest m amount shall be sufficient, .together with the sum of £llos. to pay lor the' lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank .draft, made payable to the Receiver of Eand Revenue, Wellington : Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as ,he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case whern Ihe lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the rata tendered for each such lease, and also the sura of £llos, in respect of each Btioh lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same. Any lessee who has fulfilled all con* ditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment of the price fixed at the lime the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the come mencement of the lease.

Note.—Limits of area for each-lcaseo: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under» 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 the owner, tenant or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or person, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 6<lo acres ouyvhero in the colony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pnhiatun, in Ihe Mangaone Block, in tho Kopuaranga District, about Dreyers' Rock, near Dreyer* town, and front upon or aro adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodvillo. Branch roada have beon formed through the sections at Dreyer's Koclc, Central Mangaone, Hawea, and Pabiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen mileß, thirtyone miles, thirty-five miles and forty miles, The Mangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodvillo. _ The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington, to Napier i 9 now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton, Sites for railway stations havo been selected at several points. The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawn, rimu,. hinau, rata, kahiltatea, with totara in places;' the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy.; the general character of the soil is good, and iri soma places is of first-class ■ quality,: the formation being limestone, olay, marl, sandstone, &c. The country is KnneiMlly hilly and undulating, but there are large flals as well as broken grounds within the area ; it is well watered, and, ns the climate is also favorable the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, provo well adapted for pastoral, and to some extent, agricultural purposes.

SCHEDULE. Survey District. Block. Section. Arc; A. R V. S. d, Mangaliao XV 15 158 0 0 1 3 i, ~ 18 215 0 8 16 „ ~ 19 121 124 11 Uangioue II 1213281G0 021 12 „ „ 17 143 1 6 13 „ „ 23 24 128 0 y 10 i, .; „ 26 27 157 0 7 10 ~-"■ „ 30 1581 27 1 0 .„■:■» HI 7 287 023 10 ■i ' i. 3 233 213 10 , „ ~ 11 2010 31 13 ■•„■ - . „ 18 121 324 12 .:-.''.,r 20 100 034 17 ' I. "i, 23 101 114 1 0 „ VI 52 87 232 1 3 „ VII 7 95 329 13 . „ ~ 8 214 319 14 Kopuaranea II 95 117 232 2 0 „ ' „ 100 298 0 0 1(i 102 192 OIG 1 6 „ „ 104 112 016 1 6 108 270 324 10 „ „ 200 207184 3 8 16 „ V 11 193 221 10 „ ~. 24 94 338 1 C Mangaono XIV 113 248 216 15) „ „ 115 254 224 19 • ~ „ 118 200 0 0 10 i. i, 119 184 232 16 Kopuaranga I. 33 39 124 13 I W. A. MARCHATST, Commissioner of Crown Lands • Crown Lands Office, ' Wellm ton 30th October, 1884.

MASTERTON HOKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY, THE Settling up of the Prizes will take place at the Council Chambers, on TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 2, between the hours of 2 and 6, W.B.CHENfIELLS, I 1851 Secretary.