Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1229

Lands in the Cheviot Estate open for Sale upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 19th July, 1895.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Land Act, 1892,”
and “The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893,” that
the under-mentioned lands will be open for application on
and after Wednesday, the 11th September, 1895:—

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

GRAZING-FARMS OPEN FOR LEASE ON APPLICATION.

Cheviot Survey District.—First-class Pastoral Land.

28 | VII. | 1,286 | 0 | 0/2 12 | 6 | 3,375 | 15 | 0/2 7-5 | 84 | 7 | 10

This section comprises open, hilly, and undulating land,
and low flat-topped downs, intersected by gullies with gene-
rally easy faces. The formation consists of sandstone, slate,
limestone, and clay, the soil being of fair depth and good
quality; a few of the gullies are ferny and rough. The
vegetation consists of tussock, clover, and other native and
cultivated grasses. The section is watered by springs. The
elevation ranges from about 200ft. to 1,200ft., the mean being
about 500ft. above sea-level. The section has a northerly
aspect, and is well sheltered. There is a good homestead-
site about two miles and a half by road from the Township
of Mackenzie. A large proportion of the area is capable of
improvement by clearing and sowing, the whole being well
adapted for grazing. The improvements comprise the
original Government fence along the western and southern
boundaries, and half the fence separating this section from
Mr. Anderson's farm, Section 1, Block V., Cheviot Survey
District: for the latter the sum of £67 must be paid on
allotment.

The successful applicant shall be responsible for and shall
refund to the adjacent owners half the cost of all boundary-
fences not previously paid for.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE OF GRAZING-FARMS.

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 or declared successful at the ballot, 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 September or 1st day of March following the
   date of application. 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 improve-
   ments 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
   included in his lease, he must take alternately white and
   root or green crops, or three 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 trim-
    ming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and sweet-
    briar, 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 assess-
    ments during the term.

13. 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. The Government reserves a right of ingress and
    egress to the telegraph line which passes through some of
    the lands to be disposed of.

16. A right to search for and take gravel for making or
    maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is
    reserved; payment to be made for surface damage only.

17. 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.

18. 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 improve-
    ments 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.

19. Such improvements shall mean and include reclama-
    tion from swamps, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweetbriar,
    or scrub, fencing, draining, sinking wells or water-tanks, con-
    structing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments or
    protective works of any kind, and in addition to the foregoing
    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.

20. If a lease is forfeited for breach of conditions, such
    valuation shall be made on recovering possession of the
    land.

21. 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.

22. 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 persons 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 possession
    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 up-
   wards.
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, exclusive 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
   provisions of “The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893,”
   and “The Land Act, 1892.”

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.”
A.B.

Declared at , this day of , 189 ,
before me—C.D., a Justice of the Peace in and for the
Colony of New Zealand.

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