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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Crown Lands Notices.

Lease of Woolshed, Yards, Buildings, and 162 Acres of Land, Cheviot Estate, to be disposed of by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 28th July, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the lease of the Cheviot woolshed, sheep-yards, sheep-dip and shed, shearers’ quarters, bakery and cookhouse, slaughterhouse and outhouse, together with about 162 acres of land surrounding and adjacent thereto, situated close to the Township of Mackenzie, will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to noon on Thursday, 30th August, 1900, subject to the following conditions, and any others that may be deemed necessary:—

CONDITIONS.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit by bank draft, marked cheque, post-office order, or cash, for the amount of a half-year’s rent at the rate offered, together with a lease-fee of one guinea, and must be enclosed in sealed envelopes, addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and marked “Tender for Lease of Cheviot Woolshed.”

2. The lease shall be for a term of three years, dating from the 1st September, 1900, on which date possession will be given to the accepted tenderer.

3. The rent shall be payable half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st March and 1st September in each year.

4. The lessee may, during each year of the lease, plough up and crop an area not exceeding one-third of that portion of the leasehold situated to the northward of Ward Street; and each portion of the leasehold so cultivated shall, immediately upon the removal of the crop, be sown down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers in sufficient quantity, and be so left for the remainder of the term. The lessee shall not cut the cultivated grass for hay or seed the first year of the course, nor shall he burn any straw grown upon the land.

5. The lessee shall be responsible for the safe custody and maintenance of the buildings, structures, and fences, and shall deliver up the same in good order at the termination of his lease. The lessee will also be responsible for the abatement of any nuisance in or about the premises or land.

6. The lessee will be required to insure and keep insured in the name of the Queen, during the currency of his lease, the woolshed and other buildings for the sum of £500.

7. The lease will be subject to a condition that the settlers on the Cheviot Estate shall have a right to the use of the shearing-shed, dip, quarters, and adjacent paddock during shearing-time, and that the lessee shall shear, class, and bale the wool of such settlers at a price not exceeding £1 10s. per hundred sheep, the owners of the sheep providing wool-packs.

8. The lessee shall have the right, if he shall so desire, to alter and reconstruct the existing yards upon a plan which shall first be submitted to the Commissioner of Crown Lands; and upon receipt of his approval, in writing, of such plan, the lessee may proceed to take up the material of the existing yards, and to utilise the sound portion thereof, so far as may be practicable, in the erection of new yards upon the plan approved as aforesaid. Such alteration shall be carried out at such times and in such manner as not to interfere with the use, by the Cheviot settlers, of the yards, as provided in the foregoing clause. The surplus portion of such material of the existing yards, after the new yards have been completed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, shall be disposed of by the lessee, either at auction or tender, to the highest bidder, or otherwise to the best advantage, and the proceeds of such sale, after payment of all reasonable expenses thereof, shall be paid over to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Christchurch. All accounts, &c., relating to the disposal of such materials shall be produced for the inspection of the Commissioner upon demand.

9. The lessee shall, between the 1st of January and the 30th of May in each year, permit settlers on the Cheviot Estate to have the use of the dip, and shall provide all materials necessary for efficiently dipping the sheep to the satisfaction of the Sheep Inspector, and also one man to assist, at a price not exceeding 5s. for the first ten sheep, and 2d. per head over that number.

10. The lessee shall have the right, if he shall so desire, to alter and reconstruct the existing dip in accordance with modern requirements, subject to the approval of the District Stock Inspector and the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and subject to the same general conditions as those specified hereinbefore regarding the alteration of the sheep-yards.

11. A right of access to the telegraph-line which passes through the land is reserved by and on behalf of the Government. A right to search for and take gravel for making or maintaining roads is also reserved on behalf of the local body.

12. The lessee shall, at least once in every year, properly cut and trim all live hedges and fences, and clear out all drains and ditches running through the land, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. A right to enter upon the land, and construct any necessary drains or ditches, is also reserved on behalf of the Crown or the local body.

13. The lessee shall, during the currency of the lease, clear all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, &c., not growing as fences, and noxious plants, and keep the same from growing or spreading on the land.

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

15. The late lessee has the right, for a period of one month from the commencement of the new tenant’s occupation, of removing from the land about ninety-nine chains of fencing, purchased by him from the last preceding tenant, and the successful tenderer will take subject to this right.

16. The lessee, if he shall have complied to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands with all the requirements of his lease during the term of three years, and shall have satisfactorily reconstructed the sheep-yards and dip as hereinbefore provided, shall, if at the termination of his lease the Government decides to again let the land, be entitled to the option of a renewal of his lease for a further term of three years at the same rental.

17. The Government reserves the right, if the land shall be required for any purpose, of resuming at any time during the term of the lease, upon six months’ notice, all that portion of the leasehold situated southward from the north side of Cadman Street, without any compensation save a proportionate reduction of rent in respect of the area so taken.

18. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

SIDNEY WEETMAN.
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri and Totara Timber, Hokianga County, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 31st July, 1900.

KAURI and totara timber: About 14,176,521 superficial feet, situated in Omahuta Forest Reserve, about twelve miles north of the Town of Kohukohu, Hokianga County, Auckland District, will be offered for sale by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Friday, the 14th September, 1900. Upset price for the whole of the timber, £8,860 6s., equal to 1s. 3d. per 100 superficial feet for both kauri and totara.

The timber is comprised in two blocks: Block A (933 acres, or thereabouts) contains 9,450,835 ft. of green, 169,362 ft. of scorched kauri, and 198,015 ft. of totara; and Block B (405 acres, or thereabouts) 3,128,665 ft. of green, 1,009,813 ft. of scorched kauri, and 219,831 ft. of totara. Payment for the timber to be made as under:—

One-third of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, one-third on the 1st October, 1901, and one-third on the 1st October, 1902.

With a view of preventing the purchase of this timber for purely speculative purposes, and insuring the bonâ fide working of the same, the following conditions of sale will be insisted upon:—

1. That the purchaser erect or otherwise provide within eight months from the date of the sale, anywhere on the banks of the Hokianga Harbour or estuaries, a mill and machinery of a cutting-capacity of at least 4,000,000 ft. per annum.

2. If destruction by fire should ensue during the time allowed for the removal of the timber, another mill and machinery is to be provided within eight months from the date of such fire to replace the former.

3. For every month the erection of the mill and machinery is behind the time fixed (eight months) the purchaser will be liable to a fine of £25, payable to the Government.

4. The timber to be cut and removed from the Omahuta Forest Reserve at the rate of not less than 3,500,000 ft. per annum.

5. Any timber still standing on Blocks A and B on or after the 1st day of October, 1904, to become the property of the Government. This provision, however, shall not prevent the Land Board or Crown Lands Commissioner from granting an extension of time for the removal of the timber, if an accident, such as the destruction of the mill by fire, &c., has occurred.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.