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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1857, 5 December 1884, Page 4

GROWN LANDS TO BE LE4BED FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRICT, WAIRARAPA. TT is hereby notified that the underA men tioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal. Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited, in accordance with " Tho Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882. The price tendered must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, toother with six months' rent at the rate tendered, and a fee of £l los for lease aud registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Orown Lands, at the Crown Lands office, Wellington, not later than 4 o'clock p'.m on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884 The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Laud Board on Thursday, the 11th December (tho following day,) at 10 o'olook 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 persou or by an agent authorized in wriiinK, on the day on which the tenders are opened. Plana 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 Been 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 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 leaces the deposit of a sura equal to one halfyear's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £llos. to pay for the lease and. registration thereof, paid either m cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of L»nd Revenue, Wellington : Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leaseß, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case whete the lauds comprised in the several leases adjoin eaoh other,, in snoh case the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the rate tendered for eaoh such loase, and also the sura of f!l 10s, in respeot of each I Buch 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 leaßeon payment of the price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the come mencetnent of the lease. Note.—Limits of area for eaoh lessee: No leaßQ shall be made to any person owning, nor. shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or licence under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant or occupier in the whole, either by himself-, or jointly tviih any other person or peroon, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a gieater area than G4O acres anywhere in the colony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated . at Pahiatua, iu the Mangaone Block, in tbe Kopuaranga District, about Dreyers' Rock, near Dreyer* town, and front UDon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer's Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawea, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty, one miles, thirty-five miles and forty miles. The Mangahao sections are within 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 Masierton. Sites for railway stations have been selected at several points, The whole of the sections ate 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 some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, olay, marl, sandstone, &c The oountry is generally hilly and undulating, bud there are large flats a? well a« broken grounds within the area; it is woll watered, and, as the climate is also favorable the land should, when oleared and brought into cultivation, prove, well adapted for pastoral, and to some extent, agricultural'purposes. SCHEDULE Survey District. Block. Section. Area, A, R. P. B, d, IB 158 0 0 13 18 216 0 8 16 19 121 124 11 121328160 021 12 17 143 1 6 13 2324 128 0 3 10 2627 187 0 7 10 30 158 127 16 7 287 023 10 9 233 213 10 11 2010 31 13 18 1213 24 12 20 100 034 17 23 101 114 1 6 52 97 232 13 7 95 329 13 8 214 319 14 95 117 232 2 0 100 298 0 0 16 102 192 016 16 104 112 016 16 108 270 324 1 0 206 207184 3 8 16 11 193 221 16 24 94 338 16 113 248 21C 1 9 115 254 224 19 118 200 0 0 10 119 184 232 16 83 39124 13 J. W. A. MAROHAM, Commissioner of Crown Lands Crown Lands Office, Wellinton 30th October, 1884. H. PEARSON, i TAILOR, &c, "PEGS to notify that he tuu REMOVE!)