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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

of such reserve on six months’ notice in writing being given
to the lessee that the land is required by Government, and
no compensation shall be claimed or given in respect of such
termination.

Special attention is drawn to Condition No. 6, prohibiting
any cropping which would injure or remove any survey
mark or peg.

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CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is seven 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 March or 1st day of September 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. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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 re-
   moval 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. In the case of farms comprising parts of
   the railway reserve or small subdivided lots no cultivation
   shall be done upon the same which would injure or remove
   any survey mark or peg.

7. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any
   of the covenants herein the lease shall be liable to for-
   feiture; and in case of a breach of the conditions 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 water-
   courses, 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.

8. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in
   good order and repair.

9. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and as-
   sessments during the term.

10. Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance during
    the term of the lease.

11. The lessee shall have no right to purchase any part of
    the land.

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

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

14. 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 any exterior fences, appropriate to the lease, erected and
    then existing on the land.

15. In any case where it is determined that any lands
    included 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.

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

17. 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.

18. 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 forfeiture, 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.

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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 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.
5. 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 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.”
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.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Totara Timber, Mangaone Survey District, Wellington, for
Sale by Public Auction.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 18th January, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the totara timber standing
on the under-mentioned Crown lands will be offered
for sale by public auction, at the Public Hall, Eketahuna,
on Wednesday, the 9th March, 1898, at 1.30 o’clock p.m.

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SCHEDULE.

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TERMS OF SALE.

The purchaser shall pay an eighth of the purchase-money,
and £1 1s. license-fee, on the fall of the hammer, and
the balance in four equal instalments: the first instalment
to be paid on the 1st March, 1899; the second on the 1st
March, 1900; the third on the 1st March, 1901; and the
fourth on the 1st March, 1902.

The first payment, of an eighth of the purchase-money,
shall be made by cash or marked cheque. Approved promis-
sory notes payable on demand to be given for the remainder
of the purchase-money, when the license to enter upon the
land will be issued. They will be presented for payment on
the dates stated above, but the Commissioner reserves the
right of presenting them at an earlier date if at any time
the Crown Lands Ranger reports that more than one-fifth,
two-fifths, three-fifths, or four-fifths of timber respectively
has been cut out previous to the dates mentioned.

The timber on the lot will be offered subject to the right
of the Land Board to authorise the laying-down and work-
ing of tram-lines by other persons than the purchaser of
this particular lot.

The purchaser shall have the sole use of the land, and the
right to cut and remove all timber thereon, during a period
of six years from the date of sale.

Plans containing full particulars may be obtained at the
principal post-offices in the district, and at this office.

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

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Crown Lands in Canterbury open for Selection on Lease in
Perpetuity.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 18th January, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be opened for
application upon lease in perpetuity, at this office, on
Wednesday, the 9th March, 1898, under the provisions of
“The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements
Act, 1894,” and its amendments.