1078
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

This run is situated about three miles from Macrae’s, and runs down to the Shag River. The land is warm and sunny. Valuation for improvements, to be paid with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £413 1s. 6d.

CLUTHA COUNTY.—KURIWAO SURVEY DISTRICT.

2, 3, 4, 5 | IX. | 1,243 3 30 | 0 4 | 10 7 4

This run is situated in the Kuriwao Gorge, about seven miles from Clinton. The land is rather poor, and consists of a light shallow soil on a subsoil of gravelly clay. Valuation for improvements, to be paid with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £434 14s. 6d.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Six Lots, Richardson Village, Patea County, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1901.

THE leases of the under-mentioned lots will be offered by public auction, at the Public Hall, Waitotara, on Wednesday, the 10th July, 1901, at 1 o’clock p.m.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RICHARDSON VILLAGE.

Term: Fourteen years.

These sections are situated in Richardson Village, in the Momahaki District, about two miles from Momahaki Creamery. The access is from Waverley and Waitotara, which are about eight miles distant by a good dray-road.

All the sections comprise flat land in grass; Sections 11, 12, &c., are slightly undulating: The soil is of good quality, being loam resting on a sandstone formation. There is no water on any of these lots.

The following improvements are included in capital values on which rentals are based: Sections 106 to 109, &c., 5 chains of fencing, £2 10s.; Sections 118 to 121, &c., 28½ chains wire fencing, £14 5s.; Sections 122 to 127, &c., 13 chains wire fencing, £6 10s.; Sections 62 to 65, &c., 14 chains wire fencing, £7; Sections 66 to 71, &c., 15 chains wire fencing and 4 chains ditch-and-bank, £9 10s.; Sections 11 to 13, &c., 7½ chains wire fencing, £3 15s.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with lease-fee of £1 1s., must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. Possession will be given on the 1st of July, 1901.

3. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may at any time resume possession of the land comprised in the lease, or of any portion of it, by giving twelve months’ notice to the lessee thereof of his intention to do so.

4. The purchaser of the lease of Sections 66 to 71, &c., area 2 acres 2 roods, on payment of an additional lease-fee of £1 1s., will receive a temporary lease authorising him to occupy from year to year Sections 92 and 93, area 2 roods, which are reserved for public buildings. This temporary lease will be subject to three months’ notice of determination in the event of either Section 92 or 93 or both of them being required for public purposes. If they are resumed by the Crown, the annual rental payable will be proportionately reduced.

5. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed on the land, or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause.

6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in this lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in his lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within sixty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plan obtained at this office.

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

Lands in Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 22nd April, 1901.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of section 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 12th June, 1901.

If more than one application be received for the same section 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, Auckland.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Open, level land, fronting Herekino Harbour, and partly improved.

Chiefly forest land, partly improved, on Tapuae Creek, about three miles from Motukaraka.

Broken forest land of fair quality. Adjoining Wairoa, about five miles from Clevedon.

All mixed-forest land; volcanic soil, and well watered. About six miles from Te Rau-a-moa Settlement.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.