MAY 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 679

Limestone reserve. These sections are situated adjacent

to the Buxton Stream, on the coast, and comprise some flat

and steep hillside land of good quality, well grassed, but

with some scrub on the Buxton and other parts. Subject to

right of access to work and obtain stone or gravel.

Term, three years, subject to resumption on six months'

notice, and to such other conditions as may be prescribed.

If not sold at auction, to remain open for application.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of 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.

• These sections now open.

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 ap-

proved, 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 com-

mence 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

Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have the power at any

time to enter upon and make any drain or road through the

land that he may deem necessary.

8. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all

live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon

the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as

fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other

noxious plants.

9. In the event of the lessee cultivating any of the land in-

cluded in his lease, he must take alternately white and root

or green crops; and on the removal of the third crop the

land must be sown with good permanent cultivated grasses

and clovers, and be allowed to remain as pasture for at least

two years from the harvesting of the last crop before being

again cropped; and he must not cut the cultivated grass for

hay or seed the first year of the course.

10. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any

of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the

trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and

sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and

keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it

shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to have

such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the

lessee.

11. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in

good order and repair.

12. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and

assessments during the term.

13. One half-year's rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be

paid immediately after the application has been approved;

rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance during the term

of the lease.

14. The lessee shall have no right to purchase any part of

the land.

15. On the expiration or other determination of the lease

the former lessee shall not have any right of renewal, but

shall be entitled to full valuation from the incoming lessee

for improvements of a substantial character, appropriate to

the lease, effected on the land.

16. In any case where it is determined that any lands in-

cluded in any lease shall not again be offered for further

lease, then the amount of the valuation of the improvements

as aforesaid shall be paid to the outgoing lessee or occupier,

less any arrears of money due to the Crown by him in respect

of such lands, and such amount shall be paid out of the

Cheviot Estate Fund.

17. Such improvements shall mean and include reclama-

tion from swamps, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweet-
briar, or scrub, fencing, draining, sinking wells or water-tanks,

constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments

or protective works of any kind, and in addition to the fore-
going the erection of any building requisite or necessary for

the purpose of working the land as a grazing-farm; and the

value of all such improvements shall be ascertained one

month at least before the expiry of the existing lease, in

such manner as the Minister may direct.

18. If a lease is forfeited for breach of conditions, such

valuation shall be made on recovering possession of the land.

19. Payment of any valuation for improvements shall be

made to the Receiver of Land Revenue by the new lessee of

such land before he is admitted into possession, and moneys

so paid to the Receiver shall not be deemed part of the

Cheviot Estate Fund.

20. The amount of the valuation for such improvements,

in case of the land being relet, when paid by the new lessee,

shall be paid by the Receiver of Land Revenue to the

original lessee or other person entitled, and, in case of for-

feiture, less any rent which may be due to the Crown at

the date of such forfeiture, and the cost of recovering pos-

session of the land, and also the charges and expenses of

reletting such land, and making, issuing, and completing

any fresh lease.

DECLARATION.

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

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

2. That I am applying for a lease of grazing-farm

No.†

3. That I am applying for 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 the holder of any run under Part VI. of

" The Land Act, 1892," nor have I any interest in any such

run.

5. 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, ex-

clusive of the land I am now applying for the lease of, will

exceed in area 5,000 acres.

6. That I am applying for the said land subject to the pro-

visions of " The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893," and

" The Land Act, 1892."

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-

lieving 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.B.,

A Justice of the Peace in and for the

Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.