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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Directions to Applicants

page 7

Directions to Applicants.

Applications for leases will be received up to 4 p.m. on and after Tuesday, the 12th May, 1896, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, and at the office of Mr. Henry Macintosh, Tyne Street, Oamaru, where also any unselected sections may be applied for up to the 14th. Forms and maps may be obtained at the Land Office, Dunedin, at Mr. Macintosh's office, and at the Land Offices throughout the colony.

An officer will be in attendance at the survey camp on Section No. 112 in the forenoon, and at the homestead every afternoon from 1 p.m., to show persons over the estate, and to point out the boundaries of the sections to intending applicants.

The ballot for sections for which there are more than one applicant on the first day will be held on Thursday, the 14th May, at 11 a.m., at Weir Street Hall, Oamaru. Other ballots, if required, will be held at the Crown Land Office, Dunedin.

A fourteen years' lease of Education Reserve (Section 134) will be offered for sale by auction on the 14th May, 1896, immediately after the ballot is concluded. (See page 23.)

The reserves (Sections 77, 84, 114, 135, and 137) will be let from year to year, at the rentals specified on page 23, until required, and for grazing only. The Quarry (Section 135) may be worked at any time without payment on any account whatever. Possession of the Education Reserve (Section 84) will have to be given up on one month's notice, if required for a school.

No deposits are required with applications, but every successful applicant must be prepared to pay a half-year's rent and £11s. lease-fee immediately on his application being approved at the ballot. This will be taken as the rent due on the 1st July, 1896, for selections made before that date.

Selectors who may not find it convenient to appear personally at the ballot should appoint an agent to select for them, or they may send with their application a draft or post-office order in favour of the Receiver of Land Revenue for the first half-year's rent, which will be returned, less exchange, in case of non-success.

Should any applicant not pay the half-year's rent on being declared successful and his application approved, then another ballot between the other applicants will be drawn forthwith.

Applications will be received for any number of sections which together comprise not more than 640 acres, or 320 acres for married women, but only one section can be selected. Married women who forward their applications through the post are requested to give the full name and address of their husbands opposite the word "Occupation" on the application form.

Selectors who apply for more than they wish to occupy should indicate on each application the order of their choice, or inform their agent of it.

The Land Board will dispense with residence on any section of this estate which is situated within one mile from any land not exceeding one acre the property of the selector, and on which he is resident, so long as he continues to so reside.