1274
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

CONDITIONS OF LEASING.

1. Term of lease, twenty-one years from the 1st day of September, 1897.

2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance; the first of such half-yearly payments to be made at the close of sale, and all future payments to be made to the officer appointed to receive the same within sixty days from the days on which they become due, and in default thereof the lease to be forfeited.

3. The lessee shall, within one year from the date of lease, fell, burn, and sow with grass an area equal to 5 per cent. of the land comprised therein; within two years a further 5 per cent of the area; within three years a further 5 per cent. of the area; within six years an amount equal to one-quarter of the total area; and at the end of the term an area equal to one-half of the total area.

4. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, &c.

5. No transfers or assignments to be permitted without the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

6. No valuation for improvements will be paid by the Crown, but the lease of the holdings will, a few months before the end of the term, be submitted to auction again for a further period of twenty-one years, loaded with the value of the improvements in favour of the lessee, the incoming tenant to pay the value of the improvements; but if there be no bid for the lease then the land, with the improvements, will revert to the outgoing tenant at the same rent paid under the expiring lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sections at the “Foxton Health Resort” for Lease by Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that tenders for the leases of the under-mentioned allotments will be received on and after Wednesday, the 25th August, 1897, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at an annual rental not less than the minimum stated hereunder.

SCHEDULE.

ALLOTMENTS IN SECTION 268, BLOCK I., MOUTERE.

Locality of Sections.

These allotments are situated at the mouth of the Manawatu River, about three miles from Foxton, and are known as the “Foxton Health Resort.”

Terms of Lease.

The term of the leases will be fourteen years.

No allowance whatever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessee.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered, and £1 1s. lease-fee, must be enclosed with each tender.

The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

Plans and form of lease can be seen at this office.

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

Lands at Rotorua for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 28th June, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned lands in the Township and Suburbs of Rotorua will be offered for leasing by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 25th day of August, 1897, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

CONDITIONS.

1. Term of lease, ninety-nine years.

2. Rents are payable half-yearly in advance to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Auckland; and the first half-yearly payment is to be made on the fall of the hammer.

3. Town sections to be improved within one year from the date of the lease to the value of ten times the annual rental. Rural and suburban sections to be fenced within one year from the date of the lease. No valuation for improvements will be allowed at the end of the term of lease.

4. No lease to be assigned, underlet, or the possession thereof parted with except with the consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.

5. All rates, taxes, charges, and assessments whatsoever to be paid by the lessee.

6. All buildings erected to be kept in good repair and condition, and in the erection of any building upon the sections within the town the lessee must abide by and conform to the alignment of streets and roads, and to all by-laws and regulations made by the local authority intrusted with the administration of the local affairs of the Township of Rotorua.

7. Privies, ashpits, and other works of a similar character to be constructed and maintained as directed by the local authority. All drains and channels, and the sanitary state