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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Possession of the land will be given to the successful applicant as soon as his application has been approved by the Land Board.

Special attention is drawn to the fact that the grazing-lease does not confer upon the holder thereof any rights of felling, splitting, sawing, or in any way using or removing any of the live or dead timber upon the land; and the lease 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 land.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is fourteen years.

2. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed, and shall, immediately after the application has been approved, 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 section, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

4. The lessee shall prevent the destruction or burning of timber or bush on the land comprised in the lease.

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

6. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land comprised in the lease, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or an officer appointed by him to inspect the ground.

7. The lessee shall have the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified in his lease, but shall have no right to the soil, or timber or minerals thereon or therein.

8. 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.

9. No liability is accepted by or on behalf of the Crown in respect of any fencing existing upon the Crown lands offered for lease.

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

11. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and assessments during the term.

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

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

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

15. 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.

16. 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.

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

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 or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

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 believing 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.”

Declared at __, this __ day of __, 19____, before me—C.D., a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Canterbury for Lease by Written Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th March, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 12 noon on Wednesday, 16th May, 1900, for the leases of the under-mentioned reserves.

In the event of no tender being received at the time named for any of the lots, they will remain open for lease on application at the upset rentals and for the terms as stated herein.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Reserves Nos. 77 and 77A are situated on the slopes of German Bay Hill, about a mile and a half north-westerly from the Town of Akaroa, and comprise good hilly grazing-land.

Reserve No. 2166, situated at the entrance of Akaroa Harbour, is known as the Akaroa Lighthouse Reserve, and comprises steep hilly land of good pastoral quality. The lessee of this reserve will be required to maintain the lighthouse-paddock fence, and to preserve from destruction the native bush on the reserve, and will be allowed to plough and lay down in grass an area of 30 acres on the reserve. A right of road from the lighthouse to the roads leading to Akaroa is reserved across the land leased.

Lot 4, Block I., Reserve No. 959, is situated on the south side of the Halswell River, at the upper end of the Ahuriri Lagoon, about two miles and a half south-easterly from Greenpark Railway-station, and comprises low-lying land, partly liable to flood, but good for summer grazing.

Part of Reserve No. 1650 comprises the northern portion of the North Rangitata Township Reserve, lying on both sides of the main south railway-line, adjacent to the Ealing Railway-station, and consists of open level land of fair pastoral quality.

Part of Reserve No. 1237 is situated on the north-east side of the Rangitata River, adjacent to the Arundel Traffic-bridge, and comprises the upper terrace-lands and river-flats, consisting of stony well-grassed land of fair quality. Permission will be granted to the lessee of this reserve, if so desired, to plough up an area not exceeding 100 acres above the terrace, at the northern end of the reserve, and crop the same with root-crops, or to lay down an area not exceeding 20 acres in any one year with crop of oats sown with grass- and clover-seeds of good quality and quantity: the whole of the area so cultivated must be laid down and left in good pasture to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands upon the expiration of the lease.