96
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

FIRST SCHEDULE—continued.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. THE highest bidder shall be the purchaser of the lease, and the amount bid shall be the annual rental thereof.

2. The bidding shall be an increase on the upset rental, and shall advance at the rate of not less that ten per cent.

3. The purchaser shall forthwith deposit the sum of £1 10s. for the cost of survey and preparation of the lease, and also the first year’s rent, being the amount of his bid.

4. Should the purchaser of the lease fail to comply with the third condition hereof, or should any dispute arise, the lease shall be put up again and resold.

5. The lease shall be executed by the purchaser within thirty days from the date of notice that it is ready for execution, or the right to the lease shall become forfeited, and any deposit paid on account thereof shall become forfeited also.

6. No person can purchase or hold a lease of more than one section.

7. No married woman, not having obtained a decree of judicial separation or protection order, shall be capable of becoming a lessee, excepting under a will or an intestacy.

THIRD SCHEDULE.
SYNOPSIS OF CONDITIONS OF LEASES.

1. TERM of lease, sixty-six years.
2. Rents payable annually in advance.
3. Leases not to be transferred or holdings subdivided or sublet without the consent of the Minister of Mines.
4. No transfer will be allowed until lessee has been twelve months in legal occupation and complied with the conditions of his lease.
5. A fee of £1 1s. shall be paid for recording every transfer of any lease.
6. The lessee will be required to occupy his leasehold in a bonâ fide manner for business purposes or residence within six months from the commencement of the term of lease.
7. Any lessee who shall fail to comply with any of the conditions of lease in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Warden of the district, forfeit his interest in the said lease and his right to hold the land thereunder.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Warden.

Leases of Small Grazing-runs, Marlborough, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 25th November, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 24th January, 1894, at the rental noted opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL LAND.

Run No. 58, Onamalutu Survey District, 210 acres; annual rent, £2 12s. 6d.
Run No. 59, Onamalutu Survey District, 665 acres; annual rent, £8 6s. 3d.

These runs are situated at the back of freehold sections in Kaituna Valley, on Main Road, Blenheim to Nelson; partly scrub and partly bush; about twenty miles from Blenheim and seven miles from Havelock.

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 below.
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 be paid immediately on the application being declared successful; 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.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.