1770
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Small Grazing-run, Southland, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 16th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on and after Tuesday, the 22nd day of October, 1901.

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

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Situated about twenty-eight miles from Mossburn Railway-station, and eight miles from Manapouri Township. Hilly country, soil fair, vegetation white tussock and fern, gravel formation. Burdened with £20 ls. 3d. valuation for improvements, consisting of half cost of fence at eastern boundary.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

First-class Land in Pawaho Hamlet, near Christchurch, open for Selection under the Lease-in-Perpetuity System.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 29th July, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, the 17th September, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and the regulations made thereunder.

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

If the section be not applied for on the 17th September, it will be open for application thereafter at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN COUNTY.—CHRISTCHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—PAWAHO HAMLET.

First-class Surveyed Land.

*Interest and sinking fund on building valued at £150, payable for fourteen years only.

This section is situated at the north-western end of the Pawaho Hamlet, about three-quarters of a mile from the Heathcote Railway-station, which is four miles and a half from Christchurch. The section comprises all flat agricultural land, at an altitude of between 5 ft. and 12 ft. above sea-level. The soil varies from 9 in. to 12 in. of good soil on clay subsoil, to between 9 in. and 18 in. of sandy soil on 6 in. to 12 in. of good soil on clay subsoil. The improvements are: Wooden house, 37 ft. by 30 ft., on piles; roof partly iron, partly shingles; two double brick chimneys, six rooms, and dairy. The house is valued at £150, which is repayable in fourteen years by half-yearly payments of interest and sinking fund. There are also a wooden shed and fowlhouse, orchard, and fencing, which go with the land. A sum of £10, for improvements effected by the former occupier, and a proportion of the current year’s premium of insurance on the buildings, must be deposited by the applicant, together with the half-year’s rent and interest on buildings, and the lease-fee of £1 ls.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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.