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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 4, 3 December 1884, Page 4

togftthev with six uionfclis' rent at the v.ito tendeieil, and a fee of iil 10.. for lease and vegihtratiou, to We lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Olfico, Wellington, ilot later than 4 o'clock p.ni, on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884. The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the lllh December ((lie following day), at 10 o'clock a.m., when the ' highest tenderer, if the tender shall equal ov 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 m person or by an agenb authorized m writing,' on the day on which the tender^ are , opened. Plans and schedulestolfithe 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 seen at the .Railway Stations and Post Offices m Wellington Provincial District. The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written on tfie covers. . The letter being on 'Public Service only," and to the Commissioner of Crown- Land«, need not be Ramped, being free of postage ; neither does the I ' 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 leases the deposit . of a sum equal tp one half-year's rent of the- tender largest m amount shall be sufficient, to-" gether with the sum of £1 ,10s to pay for the lease and, registration thereof, paid either, m cash, marked cheque, or bank' draft, made payable to the 'Eeceiver of Land Beveniu^ Weilihg 7 ton : Provided that m the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may m the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, io tli6 i ca«e where the lands.* comprised m the several leases adjoin e^.ch other, m such case the deposit shall be a balf-vear's rent at tlie rate, tendered for each such lease, and, also, the "urn of £\ 10s m respect of each such lease, the fee. for preparation and registration of. ,*a»j&. , . •, ... > Any lessee who has fulfilled all conditions of 1 improveaien'S within s»ix years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment of tbe price fixed at the time the lease was granted, pro yided the payment is made wilbin eleven years of the commencement of the lease.. Note.— -Limits of area for each, lessee: No lease shall be made to any;, per.-on owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who holds any freehold Jand, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such pei son shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier inithe wbrile, either by himself or jointly with any other person ot persons, including the lands comprised m the lease, of a greater area than 640: acres anywhere m the colony. ,:".., [ rThe sections comprised m the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, m the Mangaone Block, m the Kopaa-. ranga District, about Dreyer'es Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and WoodvilK Branch roads have been formed through the sections at D.reyer's Rock, Central Mangaone. Hawera, and Pahiatr-a; at 'distances respectively Irom Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty five miles, and forty miles. The Mangahap sections are , within fourteen miles of the Town of] Wood.ville. , ' .The. Main Trunk Eailway ..from Wellington to Napier is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected iati several, points. .;"'." The whole of the sections aie : covered with forest, ihe princ*ip'al trees 1 being tawa, rim'u, hinau, vata, kahi : , katiia, with, totara m places j the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy ; the general character of the soil is good, and m some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limeRtone, clay marl, sandstone, &c. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are Jarg'e -nV-.s as well as bijoken ground within the area ;it is well watered, ' and, as ' the climate is also very favourable' the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove woll adapted for pastoral and; to some extent, agricultural purposes. • ' ' ' ■ "• ' . SCHEDULE.. .« ■■„.■■■ a :■ " . ■'•■ If I Manga „ a. R. P. s. d. hao'tV. 15 158 0 0. 1 3 ■• 18 , <215 0 8 1 6 ' „ V n 121 1-24 11 Man'gn ' : : •■• ■' ■ > ■ ■ one 11. 12,13,28 160 021 % 2 :,,, 17 143 1 6-1 3 :" 23,24 128 0 3 1 6 " ' 26,27 157 0.7 1 0 M 30 158 1 27' 16 " Hi: 7 287 0" 23 1 0 " D 233 2 13 10 " ' 11 201 031 1 3 " ; 18 121i3 24 1 ,2 " ..". 2.0. 100 034 17 „ 2? 10t 1.14 1 6 ■ Vf 52 97 232 1 3 ' " VII '7. 95 329 1 8 „' '8 214 319 1 4 Kopiia • " ' ranga 11. 05. 117 232 2 0 6 100 : 298.0 0 1 6 ■■" 102 192 OJ6 16, " 104 112 016 1 6^ . " 108 270 324 1 0 ' '■" "'206,207 184 3 8 16' -'■" v 11' 193 221 1 6 " - n ' 24 94 338 16 M oTxiV 113 248 2 16.1.9 115. 254 224 1, 9 " 118 200 0 0 10 " " 119 184 232 1 6 Kupim ranga I. 33 39 124 1 3 ,^T. W. A. MAR.CHANT, v Gommissi.on,er of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, .30th October, 1 884.