Aug. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1649

Lease of Township Reserve and Buildings in Hatuma Settlement to be disposed of by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 12th July, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to noon on Wednesday, the 4th September, 1901, for a lease for three years of the Township Reserve, Hatuma Settlement, Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing 196 acres 1 rood 10 perches, together with wool-shed, yards, sheep-dip, two five-roomed cottages, large shed, and cook-house situated thereon, subject to the attached conditions.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND.

Agricultural land, from flat to low rolling downs, at an average height of about 600 ft. above sea-level. All ploughable and sown in English grasses. From 6 in. to 9 in. of black soil over a cementy subsoil. Ring-fenced and subdivided into four paddocks on the northern side of the railway-line; on southern side of railway, fenced only on the eastern boundary. The streams on the northern portion dry up during the summer months, but dams can easily be constructed. On the southern portion it is well watered by the Makotukutuku Stream. The Hatuma Road goes through the centre of the reserve, and there is a railway siding at the woolshed.

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, Napier, and marked “Tender for Lease of Township Reserve, Hatuma Settlement.”

2. The lease shall be for a term of three years, dating from the date possession is 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 20 acres; 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 King, during the currency of his lease, the woolshed and other buildings at their full insurable value.

7. The lease will be subject to a condition that the settlers on the Hatuma 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, between the 1st of January and the 30th of May in each year, permit settlers on the Hatuma Settlement 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.

9. A right to search for and take gravel for making or maintaining roads is reserved.

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

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

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Auckland, open for Application.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at this office, on and after Wednesday, the 21st August, 1901, for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years, at the annual rentals noted below.

In the event of more than one application being received for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

Raglan County, Parish of Karamu.
(Subdivisions of Section 174, Auckland University College Endowment.)

First-class Pastoral Country.

Run No. 1: 1,214 acres; annual rent, £15 3s. 6d.
Run No. 2: 1,829 acres; annual rent, £22 17s. 3d.
Run No. 3: 612 acres; annual rent, £7 18s.
Run No. 4: 1,296 acres; annual rent, £16 4s.
Run No. 5: 611 acres; annual rent, £7 12s. 9d.
Run No. 7: 969 acres; annual rent, £12 2s. 3d.
Run No. 8: 1,477 acres; annual rent, £18 9s. 3d.
Run No. 9: 1,006 acres; annual rent, £12 11s. 6d.

Locality and Description of Runs.

Situated from two to four miles from Whatawhata, and about ten miles from Raglan, and comprising nearly all broken forest land, of limestone formation and of good quality. The runs will make good grass country when cleared.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be paid immediately the application is declared successful; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

DECLARATION.

I, , of* , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.† .

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 190 , before me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Place of abode, and occupation. † Here specify.