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(2.) That the licensee shall prevent the growth or spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the license, and shall with all reasonable speed remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner; and

(3.) That the licensee shall destroy all rabbits on the land comprised in the license, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or an officer appointed by him to inspect the ground.

5. The licensee shall have the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified in his license, but shall have no right to the soil, or timber, or minerals thereon or therein.

6. One half-year’s rent and a license-fee of £1 1s. shall be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the purchaser of Run 213 shall make a declaration in terms of section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892.” The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance, on the 1st day of March and the 1st day of September in each year during the term of the license. The rent paid on the fall of the hammer shall be reckoned as the rent due in advance on the 1st September, 1894. Should the half-yearly rental at any period not be paid within thirty days, a penalty of 10 per cent. in addition will be enforced.

7. No liability is accepted by or on behalf of the Crown in respect of any fencing existing upon the Crown lands offered for license.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Hawke’s Bay, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 28th March, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on and after Wednesday, 30th May, at the annual rental noted below. In case of more than one application for the run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

High hilly country, covered with fern and stunted manuka. The spurs are in places narrow, rocky, and broken, and the gullies deep, with steep faces; in others, the ridges and spurs are broad, with easy faces, carrying a little grass. Soil, light pumice. There is a little timber in the gullies, chiefly rimu and red-birch, with a little stunted totara, sufficient for fencing purposes; well watered. Distant forty miles from Napier.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed hereon.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must accompany the application; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st September, 1894.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

DECLARATION.

I, , of* , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.†

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

T. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands at Cheviot offered for Lease as Grazing-farms.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 14th March, 1894.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will be offered for lease as grazing-farms, at Christchurch, on Monday, the 14th May, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL LAND.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years.

2. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed, and shall, immediately after the application has been approved, deposit a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the land applied for. Such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the 1st day of March or September following. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof.

3. In case of more than one application being lodged on the same day for the same farm, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

4. No person can lease more than 5,000 acres, or an area of leasehold and freehold combined which shall exceed 5,000 acres.

5. Residence on the farm is compulsory, and shall commence within one year, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

6. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, to one and a half years’ rental by the end of the second year, and to two and a half years’ rental at the end of the sixth year. The improvements which have been already made upon the land shall be reckoned as improvements under this clause.

7. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and water-courses which now are or may be upon the land, and the