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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1858, 6 December 1884, Page 4

GROWN LANDS TO BE LEASED FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRICT, WAIRARAPA, TT is hereby notified that the under- ■*• mentioned Beotione 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 '' The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882. The pnoe tendered must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with su months' rent at.the rate tendered, and a fee of II 10s for lease and registration, to be lodged with, the Commissioner of Crown 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 (the following day,) at 10 o'clock 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 Laud Board, cither in person or by an agent authorized in writing on the day on which the tenders are opened. Flans 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 j at any of the other Land Offices in the colony; and may also be seen at the Railway stations and Post Offices iu the Welltugton Provincial District. The numbers of the section and block with the name of dis<rict, 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 Any person of eighteen jeara of age and upwards may beooms a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more lea«es the deposit of a sum equal to one halfyear's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £lloa. to pay for the lease aud regis* (ration thereof, paid either. m oash, 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 leases, suoh at he may in the aggregate become the leasee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lauds comprised in the several leasee adjoin each oilier, in suoh case the deposit shall be a half-year's rent at the rate tendered for each suoh lease, and also the sum of £lloa, m respect of each suoh lease, the fee fpr preparation and tegwtrationofsamo. Any lessee who has fulfilled all con* ditions of improvements within biz years can acquire the freehold of hia lease on payment of tho price fixed at the time the leaso was granted, provided tlie payment is made within eleven years of the como mencement of the lease. Note.—Limits of area for each ioaaec: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a leaße, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or licence under the Crown wj^reby' flucj} person shall beoome either tlje owpefj (eiianf or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or pewon, including the lauds comprised in the lease, of a gioaier area than 64(j acres anywhere in the colony. The septwns comprised in the Sphedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Prayers' Rock, gear I)reyer« town, and front upon or are adjacpnt to the. main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed througl) (be sections at Preyer's Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawea, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirtyone miles, thirty-five miles and forty miles, The Mangahao sootions 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 Masterton. Sites for railway Btatioijs have been seleoted at several points. The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rirau, hinau, rata, kahikalea, with totara in places; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy j the.geiieral character of the soil is good; and In some places is of first-okas quality, the formation being limestone, The oouqtry is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken grounds wjthin the area; it is well wafered, and, ap (he cljmale is alsp favorable the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral, and to some extent, agricultural.purposes.

SCHEDULE sip«y District. Block faction. Area. ~ ta A, 8. ?. B, d 15 158 0 0 1 18 215 0 8 1 19 121 124 1 121328160 021 1 17 143 1 6 1 2324 128 0 3 1 26 27 157 0 7 1 80 158127 1 1 287. 028 1 0 293 218 1 11 201 081 1 18 121 324 1 20 100 084 17 28 101114 16 62 97 282 18 7 95 829 13 8 214 319 14 95 117 232 2 0 100 298 0 0 16 102 192 016 16 104 112 016 16 108 270 824 1 0 206 207184 8 8 16 11 193 221 1 6 24 94 888 1 6 113 248 216 1 9 115 254 224 19 118 200 0 0 .10 110 184 232 16 'B3l 39 Iff 13 J. W, A. MAROHAKT, Commissioner of Crown Lands Crown Lands Office, : Wellia ton 30th October, 1884. H.i PEAKSON, | TAILOR, &,&., BEGS to notify that he tm REMOVEL to Premise! opposite the Pest Office