July 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1457

or the conveyance of water or waste material or refuse of any kind, and in maintaining or providing for the sanitary state and condition of the demised premises, will at all times act in accordance with the direction of the local authority or the requirements of any laws, by-laws, rules, or regulations for the time being in force providing for the sanitary state and condition of the said township.

(5.) The lessee will not at any time during the said term, without the previous consent in writing of the local authority, carry on or permit to be carried on upon the said land or any part thereof the trade or business of a soap-boiler, tallow-chandler, tanner, slaughterman, meat curer, or preserver, or any noisy, noxious, or offensive trade or manufacture of any kind whatever.

(6.) The lessee will permit the lessor, or any person on her behalf duly authorised as hereinafter provided, from time to time to enter upon the demised premises at all reasonable times, to view the state and condition thereof, and upon notice of any defect or want of repair being given to the lessee, or left for him on the premises, the lessee will, within one month thereafter, make good any such defect or want of repair:

Provided always that whenever the rent hereby reserved, or any part thereof, is in arrear for twenty-one days the same may be levied by distress without any previous demand of payment or notice of any kind: Provided further that, if the lessee makes default for thirty days in the full and punctual payment of any of the said rent, or if he makes default in the faithful performance or observance of any other covenant or condition on his part herein contained or implied, or if the Commissioner is satisfied that the land comprised in this lease is being held unused and to the hindrance of the trade and progress of the said township, then and in any such case, and without any notice or demand whatsoever, it shall be lawful for the lessor to re-enter upon the demised premises and thereby determine this lease, and that without releasing the lessee from any liability in respect of any rent due or of any preceding breach of covenant.

And it is hereby declared and agreed as follows, that is to say,—

(1.) The rent hereby reserved may be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue for the time being of the Land District of Wellington, on behalf of the lessor, and the receipt of such Receiver shall be a good discharge to the lessee.

(2.) Any power which may be exercisable under these presents by or on behalf of the lessor may from time to time be exercised by the Commissioner, or by any persons whom he from time to time appoints for that purpose.

(3.) Service on the lessee of any notice under this lease may be effected either personally or by posting the same in a registered letter addressed to him either at his last known place of business or abode in the colony or at the demised land.

(4.) The lessee, faithfully observing and performing all the covenants, conditions, and agreements on his part herein contained or implied, shall, on the expiration by effluxion of time of the term hereby granted, have the right to a renewal of the lease or to valuation for all substantial improvements of a permanent character made or owned by him and then existing on the demised land: Provided that such right shall exist only to the extent and subject to the conditions following, that is to say:—

(1.) Not sooner than nine nor later than six months before the expiration of the said term by effluxion of time two separate valuations shall be made in manner prescribed (mutatis mutandis) by sections 79 and 80 of “The Land Act, 1892,” of

(a.) All such improvements as aforesaid; and of

(b.) The annual ground-rent of the land (exclusive of such improvements as aforesaid) for a fresh term of twenty-one years.

(2.) After the making and publishing of the aforesaid valuations, which shall be effected by serving a copy thereof on the lessee and another copy on the Commissioner, but not later than one month before the date of such expiration as aforesaid, the lessee shall, by notice in writing served on the Commissioner, elect whether he will accept a new lease of the demised land (including the aforesaid improvements) for a fresh term of twenty-one years, computed from the date of such expiration as aforesaid, at the annual ground-rent ascertained by valuation as aforesaid, and subject in all other respects to the same covenants and conditions as those of this present lease.

(3.) If for any reason the lessee does not duly elect in manner aforesaid to accept such new lease, or if, having duly elected, he for any reason does not execute such new lease when requested by the Commissioner so to do, his right to a new lease shall be and be deemed to be abandoned, and the land shall be disposed of by lease at such time, in such manner, and subject to such conditions, not inconsistent with the said Act and the regulations for the time being in force thereunder, as the Commissioner thinks fit: Provided that it shall be one of the conditions of the new lease that the new lessee pays to the Commissioner the amount at which the improvements (if then existing) have been valued as aforesaid, or such less amount as the Commissioner thinks just, having regard to the extent to which such improvements have deteriorated since the date of the original valuation; and all moneys actually received by the Commissioner in respect of such valuation shall be paid over to the lessee under this present lease as soon as the Commissioner is satisfied that the new lessee has been admitted into full and quiet possession of the premises: Provided, further, that in no case shall the lessee under this present lease have any claim against the Crown or the Commissioner in respect of any such improvements, or of the value thereof, save to the extent of the moneys which are actually received as aforesaid from the new lessee, and available for payment, and which the lessee under this present lease becomes actually entitled to.

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

Forest Reserves in the Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 12th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned forest reserves, for grazing purposes only, will be offered for sale by public auction under section 232 of “The Land Act, 1892,” at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Wednesday, the 1st August, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon, subject to the following conditions:—

SCHEDULE.

The above reserves, on which the timber has been burnt, are situate in the Wai-iti Survey District—Sections 6, 11, and 157, Block III., Wai-iti, about four miles to the east of Thorpe, and Sections 24, Block VI., 8, 25, 26, and 28, Block X., have access to the Stanley Brook-Wakefield Road, about eleven miles from Wakefield, on the Nelson-Belgrove Railway.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee must be paid on the fall of the hammer. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

Full particulars, plans, &c., may be obtained at this office.

CONDITIONS.

1. That the lessees shall have no right to fell or remove from the land any live or dead trees or timber, whether standing or lying on the ground, without the consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

2. That all persons duly authorised shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of the aforesaid Act, or for felling or removing from the land any timber or trees as aforesaid.

3. That the lands so leased shall be sown with the best cultivated grass-seed, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, before the 30th September, 1900.

4. Lessees will be required to take the greatest precaution against the spread of fires into any green timber that may be on the land leased, or on adjoining lands, and, in the event of such taking place through negligence on the part of the lessee, his lease will be cancelled.

5. Lessees will not be entitled to compensation at the end of the term on account of any improvements that may be effected during the currency of the leases, but at the expiration of the term all fences and buildings erected by them on the land may be removed.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.