APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 841

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 25lb. 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.

Pastoral Runs in Westland open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 20th March, 1899.

IN accordance with section 197 of “The Land Act, 1892,” I hereby give notice that the under-mentioned pastoral runs have been submitted for sale by public auction and not sold, and will be open for application on and after the 28th day of April next.

Subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” Part VI. All for the term of ten years. Possession to be given on the date of granting of application, after necessary declaration taken.

W. G. MURRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sections in Township of Pipiriki for Lease by Tender.

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

THE under-mentioned sections in the Township of Pipiriki will be offered for lease by public tender, for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 26th April, 1899. Sections not applied for on the 26th April, 1899, will be open thereafter at the upset ground-rentals noted below,

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT:
Township of Pipiriki.

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

Lands in Wellington Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection, in terms of section 159 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on lease in perpetuity, on Wednesday, 26th April, 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 the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

Sections not applied for on the 26th April, 1899, will be open for application thereafter at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.