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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

Purchaser must deposit a statutory declaration required by section 62 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of a half-year’s rent, valuation for improvements, and license-fee, at the fall of the hammer.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 28th February, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, the 26th April, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—WAIAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Merrivale Estate.

Open, flat, dry, shingly, with patches of good land; no permanent water; twenty-two miles from Otautau; altitude, about 200 ft. There is a valuation of £17 4s. for improvements as follows: Fencing (32 chains at 7s.), £11 4s.; ploughing (30 acres at 4s.), £6.

DAVID BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village and Rural Lands, Taranaki, for Sale by Public Auction for Cash.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 24th February, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned sections will be submitted to public auction for sale for cash at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 26th day of April, 1899, at noon:—

VILLAGE OF PUNEHU.—BLOCK XI., OPUNAKE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Section 34: Area, 2 roods; upset price, £5. All flat; well watered; fair soil. The whole is cleared and in grass.

MIMI SURVEY DISTRICT.

Section 3, Block XI.: Area, 14 acres; upset price, £42. Situate about 10½ miles from Urenui, with frontage to main road from New Plymouth to Mokau.

Town and Suburban Lands for Lease by Public Auction.

The under-mentioned sections in the Town and Suburbs of Opunake will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 26th day of April, 1899, at noon. Should any of the sections not be bid for at the said auction they will be open for application at the upset rentals and for the terms stated.

TOWN OF OPUNAKE.

SUBURBS OF OPUNAKE.

Block IX., Opunake Survey District.

| 31 | IX. | 6 0 0 | 3 12 0 | 14 years. |
| 46 | " | 5 3 0 | 3 9 0 | " |
| 47 | " | 7 2 0 | 4 10 0 | " |
| 48 | " | 9 2 0 | 5 14 0 | " |
| 49 | " | 5 2 0 | 3 6 0 | " |

These sections lie to the east of the Town of Opunake, and adjacent to the Main South Road, which passes through the town. The soil is light, and generally of a stony and sandy character. A narrow swamp, which could easily be drained, runs through Sections 48 and 49.

Terms of Lease.

1. A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee to be made on the fall of the hammer.

2. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration is required.

3. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

4. The leases shall be for the term of years as specified above, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

6. Each lessee will be required to clear, within the first year from the date of the lease, all gorse, bramble, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds now growing on the lands comprised in his lease, and, further, shall use all reasonable means to prevent the spread of such noxious weeds.

7. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessees, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessees, nor for any other cause.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Taranaki for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 28th February, 1899.

WRITTEN tenders, marked on the outside, will be received at this office, up to noon of Monday the 22nd day of May, 1899, for the lease of the reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, for the term of years stated, and subject to the following conditions. If no tenders are received on the 22nd May, 1899, it will remain open thereafter for selection.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SUBURBS OF MANGAMINGI.

Conditions of Lease.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease-fee.

2. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.

3. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may at any time (should the land be required for public purposes) resume possession of the land comprised in the lease by giving twelve months’ notice in writing to the lessee of his intention to do so.

4. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for improvements made upon the land or on account of the aforesaid resumption, nor for any other cause.

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

6. The lessee shall fell and burn the bush, and shall sow the land comprised in his lease with a suitable mixture of English grasses and clovers, consisting of not less than 25 lb. weight of seed to each acre. All seeds to be of best quality; the proportions of mixture as well as the quantity and quality of seeds to be submitted before sowing for the approval of the Crown Lands Ranger.

7. The lessee shall, within two years from the date of his lease, enclose the whole of the lands comprised therein with a good and substantial fence (in terms of the Fencing Act); the style of fence and also the materials to be used in the construction thereof shall, previous to erection, be approved by the Crown Lands Ranger, and such fence shall be maintained and left in good tenantable repair at the expiration of the term.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of scrub, gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds on the land included in the lease. Should any such be found on the land the lessee shall with all reasonable despatch remove the same in such manner as shall be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within sixty days after the date on which the same ought to have been fulfilled.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.