Nov. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2165

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of one half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease fee must be made on the fall of the hammer.

2. The land comprised in the lease shall remain under “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” subject only to the right of the lessee to use it for grazing purposes.

3. The lessee 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.

4. All persons duly authorised in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of the Act last aforesaid, or for felling or removing from the land any trees or timber.

5. The lessee shall have no claim for compensation for improvements at any time, but at the expiration of his lease may remove all fencing and buildings erected by him on the land.

6. The Commissioner of State Forests may issue licenses at any time during the currency of grazing-lease to the lessee or other persons to cut and remove either standing or felled timber under the State Forest Regulations, without compensation to lessee of grazing-right.

7. In the event of any of the timbered or cleared portions of the land leased being damaged by fire, the area so burned shall be sown by the lessee with approved English grasses and clovers to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. J. W. A. MARCHANT, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Village-homestead Allotments open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 15th October, 1900.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, 19th December, 1900.

If more than one application be received for the same allotment on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m. If the allotments are not applied for on the 19th December, 1900, they will remain open for selection at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT. — TAIERI COUNTY. — STRATH TAIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Open, level land; good soil. Situated about three to four miles from Middlemarch Railway-station. Valuation for improvements, £135 15s.

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Open, level land; soil good. Situated about three miles and a half from Middlemarch Railway-station. Valuation for improvements, £22 17s.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Village Allotment, Canterbury, open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, 12th November, 1900.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection on and after Thursday, the 27th December, 1900.

If more than one application be received on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—AROWHENUA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

This section is situated near the western end of the Arowhenua Village Settlement, in the vicinity of the Taumata-kahu Stream, at a distance of about three-quarters of a mile eastward from the Temuka Railway-station, and is suitable for residential and garden purposes. The section is weighted with a valuation of 14s. for road-boundary fencing, and this sum must be paid by the successful applicant before being admitted to possession of the land. Selectors are limited to 2 acres in the settlement.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The land enumerated above is first-class land.

2. The land enumerated above is a village allotment, open at the option of the applicant either for purchase for cash, for selection for occupation with right of purchase, or on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

3. The day on which the said land shall be open for application shall be Thursday, the 27th day of December, 1900.

4. The price and rental stated above shall be the price at which the land shall be open for application.

5. Applications shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch.

6. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration prescribed in Schedules A, B, C to the said Act, according to the tenure under which the land is applied for.

7. Each applicant to purchase for cash shall undertake to pay, immediately upon being declared the successful applicant, one-fifth of the price of the land; and the balance of the purchase-money, together with Crown-grant fee, must be paid within thirty days.

8. Each applicant for occupation with right of purchase or for lease in perpetuity shall undertake to pay, immediately upon being declared the successful applicant, the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee.

9. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided.

10. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in the lease shall be as provided in Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to a lessee under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to a lessee under these regulations.

11. The lessee shall not subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

12. No person shall hold more than 2 acres in the Arowhenua Village Settlement. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

13. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.