Oct. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1903

Reserves in Scarborough Township for Lease by Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1899.

WRITTEN tenders will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 29th November, 1899, for the leases of the under-mentioned sections. If any sections are unapplied-for on the 29th November, 1899, they will remain open for selection at the upset rentals, and for the terms stated below.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Scarborough Township.

Term, seven years.

These reserves are situated in the Scarborough Township, and, with the exception of Section 94, Block X., which is rough and partly wet, are all level and in grass.

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CONDITIONS.

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. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration is required. Residence and improvements are not compulsory. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

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

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

7. The land shall not be cropped nor broken up, except with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

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

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

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

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

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Pastoral Runs in the Counties of Ashley, Ashburton, and Waimate for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 3rd October, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, 22nd November, 1899, at 11 a.m.

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SCHEDULE.

PASTORAL LICENSES UNDER “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”

Run No. 136, part of the Broomfield Station, is situated on the Mount Grey Range, about nine miles from Amberley Railway-station by metalled and formed road; it is well watered by the sources of the Kowai River, and comprises hilly country ranging from 800 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level. While there is fair tussock feed on the top and slopes of Mount Grey, the lower spurs are principally covered with manuka scrub.

Run No. 136A is situated between the last-mentioned Run No. 136 and the South Kowai River, and comprises open tussock land, about 700 ft. above sea-level.

Run No. 136B is situated on Crampton’s Bush Road, to the eastward of Run No. 136, and comprises manuka-covered land, about 850 ft. above sea-level.

Run No. 225 is situated on the eastward slopes of Mount Oxford, extending across the range from Cooper’s Creek to the River Ashley, and comprises country varying in elevation from 1,000 ft. to 4,000 ft. above sea-level, with rocky spurs and clay faces, the greater portion of the country being covered with live and dead standing timber, through which a fire swept in January, 1898. The pastoral license confers upon the holder thereof no rights of felling, splitting, sawing, or in any way using or removing any of the live or dead timber upon the land; and the license is offered subject to the rights of any persons now or hereafter to be authorised by the Canterbury Land Board to split or saw timber upon any portions of the lands.

Run No. 103 is situated about four miles from Springburn Railway-station, on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Somers. The upper half is rough, broken, rocky country; the front is comparatively low country, fairly well grassed, and easy of access. The run is bounded on three sides by forest, and intersected by deep gullies covered with birch forest. Altitude, from 2,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level.

Run No. 67, Akatarawa Station, is situated about sixteen miles from Hakateramea Railway-station, South Canterbury, and consists of high broken country, running up to 4,150 ft. above sea-level.

Run No. 205 is situated about twenty miles up the Hakateramea River from the railway-station of that name, and consists of a narrow strip of land lying between the river and the road.

In the event of any of the runs not being sold at the auction, they will immediately thereafter be open for application at the upset rents herein specified.

Special attention is directed to clause 2 of the conditions to be embodied in the license, providing that the licensee shall prevent the destruction or burning of timber or bush on the land comprised in the license. This condition will be strictly enforced.

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CONDITIONS.

1. Possession of the runs will be given to the purchaser of the license on the 1st March, 1900, or on approval of application by the Land Board.

2. No person or company may become the holder of more than one run under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892”: Provided that the holder of any run under the said Act of a carrying-capacity of less than ten thousand sheep or two thousand head of cattle may become the lessee of an aggregate area sufficient to carry such a number of sheep or cattle. The holder of any small grazing-run under Part V.