1472
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Sections in the Township of Parata, Wellington Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1900.

THE under-mentioned thirty-six sections in the Township of Parata, on the main road and railway-line between Wellington and Otaki, will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 11th September, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon. Sections not sold on the 11th September will be open thereafter at the upset ground-rentals noted below.

SCHEDULE.
TOWNSHIP OF PARATA.—HOROWHENUA COUNTY.

The Parata Township is situated on the main road and railway-line between Wellington and Otaki, the latter place being forty-eight miles from Wellington, and is situated about six miles north of Paraparaumu. The area comprises open, flat, and undulating land laid down in English grasses. Remnants of the forest—stumps and logs—still remain. The soil is of good quality, capable of producing garden- and farm-produce freely. There exists a store, accommodation-houses, a public school, post-and-telegraph office, railway-station, and a daily train and mail service both ways. The climate is healthy, the district is being rapidly settled, and the township affords an opportunity to business people, labourers, and small settlers to establish homes on reasonable and advantageous terms.

Maps and full particulars may be obtained upon application.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The respective lots shall be offered by auction on the 11th September, 1900.

2. The bidder of the highest rent shall be declared to be the lessee, and, if any dispute arises as to the last or highest bidding for any lot, the lot in dispute shall be put up again at the last preceding bidding.

3. The highest bidder for each lot shall, upon the fall of the hammer, pay to the auctioneer the first half-year’s rent in advance by way of deposit, which shall represent the half-year’s rent as from the 1st January, 1901, and shall cover the period between the date of sale and such 1st January, 1901.

4. The second half-year’s rent shall become payable on the 1st July, 1901, and thenceforth shall be paid half-yearly in advance.

5. As soon as may be after the highest bidder is ascertained, a lease will be prepared, for which there will be a charge of £1, to be paid by the lessee. Such lease shall be for the term of twenty-one years, commencing from the 1st day of January, 1901, and the lessee shall execute the same in triplicate at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, whenever requested so to do.

6. Sections 33, 34, 39, Block III., and 22 and 23, Block IV., are offered subject to the water-rights of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, and its power over the strip of land shown on plan, as granted to it by Wi Parata te Kaka-kura in Memorandum of Transfer No. 30123. This instrument grants to the said company (inter alia) full and irrevocable license, power, and authority to erect dam, penning back waters of creek to such height as may be necessary for its purposes, to cover in water of said dam, and enclose same with fence, and gives power to the company to enter with its servants upon said strip of land to view condition of pipes, repair same, &c., &c., and covenants that no buildings, &c., will be set up on such land without the consent of the said company.

7. Should the highest bidder neglect or fail to comply with any of the conditions, his deposit-money shall thereupon be forfeited to the Commissioner, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the letting or to relet the premises at such time and place and in such manner as he thinks fit.

8. Every lease shall be in the following form, with such modification as the circumstances may require :—

THIS deed, made the day of , one thousand nine hundred and , under the provisions of “The Native Townships Act, 1895,” between Her Majesty Queen Victoria (who, with her heirs and successors, is hereinafter referred to and included in the expression “the lessor”) of the one part, and , of , in the Land District of , in the Colony of New Zealand (who, with his executors, administrators, and permitted assigns, is hereinafter referred to and included in the expression “the lessee”), of the other part, witnesseth that, in consideration of the rent hereinafter reserved, and of the covenants, conditions, and agreements herein contained and implied, and on the part of the lessee to be paid, observed, and performed, the lessor hereby demises and leases unto the lessee all that piece of land, containing by admeasurement acres roods perches, a little more or less, situate in the Native Township of , and being allotment numbered , Block , on the plan of that township, as the same is more particularly delineated and described in the plan drawn hereon, and therein coloured red in outline; together with all ways, rights, easements, and appurtenances to the same belonging: To hold the demised premises unto the lessee for the term of twenty-one years, commencing on the 1st day of , one thousand ; yielding and paying therefor the annual rent of , payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each year during the said term, free from all deductions whatsoever, the first half-yearly payment of such rent having been already made, and the next payment to become due and be made on the 1st day of thereafter.

And the lessee hereby covenants with the lessor as follows, namely:—

(1.) The lessee shall not nor will at any time during the said term assign, underlet, or part with the possession of the demised premises, or any part thereof, without the previous consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the time being of the Land District of Wellington, hereinafter called “the Commissioner.”

(2.) The lessee will from time to time during the said term pay unto the lessor the said rent on the days and in manner aforesaid, and also will from time to time pay and discharge all rates, taxes, charges, and assessments whatsoever now or hereafter to become payable upon or in respect of the demised premises or any part thereof.

(3.) The lessee will, during the said term, well and sufficiently repair, maintain, and keep the demised premises, and all buildings, fences, and erections from time to time built or erected thereon, in good and substantial repair and condition (reasonable wear-and-tear, and damage by fire, storm, earthquake, or tempest only excepted). In the erection of any buildings from time to time the lessee will abide by and conform to the alignment of streets and roads, and also to all the by-laws and regulations from time to time in force, or made or passed by the local authority for the time being intrusted, under “The Native Townships Act, 1895,” with the administration of the local affairs of the said township, by whatever name or designation such local authority may for the time being be called, but hereinafter referred to as “the local authority.”

(4.) The lessee will from time to time construct, maintain, and keep all such privies, ashpits, and other works of a similar character as may be ordered or directed by the local authority; and, in cutting and laying of drains and channels