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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

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.
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.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Blind River Estate, Marlborough, open for Application on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 10th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be opened for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Monday, the 4th June, 1900, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER ESTATE.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £84, valuation for improvements.
Section 10, Block XII., Clifford Bay Survey District.—110 acres of flat and sloping land, easily ploughable, and 40 acres of hilly and broken country, fit for pastoral purposes only, are comprised in this section. The altitude ranges from 10 ft. to 150 ft. The section extends between the Blind River and the coast, in a belt of about 26 chains in width, and is accessible by Redwood Pass Road, Blenheim to Kai-koura. Distance from Blenheim, about twenty miles.
The improvements consist of house valued at £35, 55 chains boundary-fence valued at £33, and 35 chains division-fence valued at £12, fencing material valued at £4; total, £84.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Elsthorpe Village, Hawke’s Bay, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection upon lease in perpetuity on Wednesday, the 6th June, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—PATANGATA COUNTY.—ELSTHORPE VILLAGE.

First-class Land.

This section is situated on the main road from Kaikora to the coast, is a good residence-site, and is about fourteen miles from the former place.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Blind River Estate, Marlborough, open for Application on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 18th April, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Monday, the 4th June, 1900, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER ESTATE.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £75, value for improvements.
Description of section: Twenty-five miles from Blenheim by good road. The land consists of flats and easy slopes, nearly the whole of the section being ploughable, but the soil on the upper flats and slopes is light; the lower flat, of about 15 acres, is good agricultural land.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Land, Ngamatea Village, Wellington, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 1900.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on and after Tuesday, 29th May, 1900.