Dec. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2205

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT.—
OROUA COUNTY.—TE MATUA SETTLEMENT.
First-class Agricultural Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings, valued at £336, repayable in twenty-one years, in half-yearly instalments of £13 2s. 1d.; total half-yearly, £62 14s. 1d.

NOTE.—Each section is an allotment excepting Sections Nos. 33 and 34, Block I., which form one allotment, and Sections Nos. 37 and 40, which are grouped and form one allotment.

For description of sections and conditions of lease see pamphlet, which may be obtained on application personally or by post from any Land Office in the colony.

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

Town and Rural Lands at Hanmer Springs for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 24th November, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned town and rural sections at Hanmer Springs will be opened for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 31st January, 1900. In the event of more than one application being received on the same day for the same section, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 o’clock a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

This section consists partly of good flax and manuka swamp, and partly of poor shingly soil covered with tussock.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Applications must be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch, and must be accompanied by a deposit of a half-year’s rent, together with £1 1s. lease-fee.

2. Possession will be given immediately on approval by the Land Board of the application.

3. The leases will be for terms of forty-two years.

4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free of all deductions whatsoever; and if not paid within twenty-one days after due date the lessor may re-enter upon the land and determine the lease.

5. The lessee shall have no right to mortgage, sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

6. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

7. The lessee shall prevent the growth or spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lessee shall not carry on, or permit to be carried on, upon the land or any part thereof, any noisy, noxious, or offensive trade or manufacture, or do or suffer to be done thereon any act or thing whatsoever which may be an annoyance to the lessor or to any other lessee in the neighbourhood.

9. In the event of the lessee, upon the expiry of the term, not again becoming the occupier of the land under a fresh lease, he shall be entitled to payment of valuation for all improvements which he shall have effected upon the land, so far as the same are existing and unexhausted.

10. The lessee of any town section shall, within two years from the date of his lease, erect upon the land buildings to the value of at least £50.

11. No person shall be eligible to apply for or to hold more than one allotment in the township and one allotment in the village.

Sale plans and forms of application may be obtained at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, the Survey Office, Wanganui, and the Courthouse, Palmerston North, on Wednesday, the 27th December, 1899.

If more than one application be received for the same section on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on Friday, the 29th December, 1899, at 12 o’clock noon, at the Courthouse, Palmerston North. Sections not applied for on the 29th December, 1899, may be selected after that date at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RANGITOTO SURVEY DISTRICT.—MANAWATU COUNTY.—OHAKEA SETTLEMENT.
First-class Agricultural Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £554, repayable in twenty-one years in half-yearly instalments of £21 12s. 2d.: total half-yearly, £108 15s. 6d.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £31, repayable in twenty-one years in half-yearly instalments of £1 4s. 3d.: total half-yearly, £28 17s. 9d.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £80, repayable in twenty-one years in half-yearly instalments of £3 2s. 5d.: total half-yearly, £51 14s. 9d.

§ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £40, repayable in twenty-one years in half-yearly instalments of £1 11s. 3d.: total half-yearly, £41 0s. 4d.

For description of sections and conditions of lease see pamphlet, which may be obtained on application personally or by post from any Land Office in the colony.

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