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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

Lands in Northbank Settlement, Marlborough Land District,
open for Temporary Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 24th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned
lands will be offered for lease for grazing purposes
only, for the term and at the annual rentals stated below,
at this office, on Friday, the 27th February, 1903.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—
NORTHBANK SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

PINE VALLEY SURVEY DISTRICT.

A. R. P. £ s. d.
4 | XVI. | 1,694 0 0 | 15 17 8 | 1 year.

Height above sea-level, 830 ft. to 3,580 ft.; 150 acres birch
bush, remainder open covered with fern and scrub; very
broken, pastoral; supposed to be gold-bearing; well watered.
Accessible by road, twenty-six miles from Blenheim.

MOUNT OLYMPUS SURVEY DISTRICT.

4 | II. | 993 0 0 | 9 6 3 | 1 year.

Height, 800 ft. to 1,924 ft.; all open, covered with fern and
scrub; broken, pastoral; supposed to be gold-bearing; well
watered. Accessible by road, twenty-five miles from
Blenheim.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Kapiti Island for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease for grazing pur-
poses of the undermentioned Crown lands in Kapiti
Island will be offered by public auction at the District Lands
and Survey Office, Wellington, on Saturday, the 28th day of
February, 1903, at 12 o’clock noon.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT—KAPITI ISLAND.

Locality and Description of Land.

The lands scheduled above are Crown lands in Kapiti
Island, which is situated on the west coast of the North
Island, about four miles due west from the mouth of the Wai-
kanae River. They are partly bush-clad, partly covered with
scrub, and partly cleared. The clear land consists generally
of rough broken country sloping towards the eastern coast,
covered with a thick growth of native grasses, intermixed
with rye, cocksfoot, white clover, and becoming overgrown
with tawhino scrub. Improvements to the value of £188
exist on the land, and are included in the rental. They
comprise the following: Fencing, £97; four-roomed dwelling-
house, about twenty years old, £60; wool-shed, £12; sheep-
yards and dip, £19.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of one half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease fee
   shall be made on the fall of the hammer, and the rental
   thereafter shall be payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st
   days of March and September in each year.

2. Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1903, the
   present occupier being granted till the 14th March, 1903, to
   remove any straggling sheep off the lands.

3. The license will comprise about 3,400 acres of Crown
   lands in Kapiti Island, offered for lease under the provisions
   of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and the licensee shall
   have the right to use these lands for grazing purposes only,
   but shall have no right to the soil, or timber, or minerals.

4. Unless specially authorised otherwise in writing by the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands, the licensee shall not cut,
   burn, remove, or destroy any timber, bush, scrub, or other
   vegetation, and shall not destroy or disturb any of the
   native birds or animals existing on the land comprised in
   the license; and he shall do nothing in contravention of the
   purposes of “The Kapiti Island Public Reserve Act, 1897.”

5. The licensee shall also prevent all persons from tres-
   passing on the Crown lands of the aforesaid island, and shall
   prevent their cutting, removing, burning, or destroying any
   timber or other vegetation, and shall prevent their removing,
   disturbing, shooting, or destroying any of the native birds or
   animals thereon. Any person, including the licensee, who
   without right or title shall fell, remove, &c., any of the
   timber, or who shall unlawfully trespass on aforesaid lands,
   shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, re-
   coverable in a summary way as provided by section 26, (2), of
   “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.” For the purposes of the
   last-named section of the Act, the licensee will be appointed
   by the Commissioner of Crown Lands as a person on whose
   information trespassers may be convicted.

6. The licensee shall destroy all goats, wild cats, pigs, and
   rabbits on the lands comprised in license within a period of
   two years from the date thereof, and shall prevent their
   natural increase and spread after the date of license.

7. The license shall be subject to the condition that all
   Government officers and their employees, provided they pro-
   duce a permit to do so, signed by the Commissioner of Crown
   Lands, shall have the right at all times of ingress, egress,
   and regress, of camping upon and passing over the lands
   comprised therein, when engaged in any public service. The
   Crown Lands Ranger may visit aforesaid lands in the execu-
   tion of his duties at all times without said written permit.

8. Any person, on the production of a permit signed by
   the Commissioner of Crown Lands giving permission to do
   so, may destroy, trap, snare, or remove from the lands com-
   prised in license, any wild birds or animals thereon.

9. The licensee shall prevent the growth or spread of
   gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the
   license.

10. The licensee shall be entitled to compensation for any
    improvements effected on the land comprised in his license;
    and at the expiration thereof the Board shall appoint an
    appraiser to value all such improvements, provided the
    amount of such valuation to be paid shall not exceed three
    times the amount of the annual rental.

11. The license shall be surrendered to the Government on
    demand, at any time after three months’ notice, to be can-
    celled in respect of so much of the land as from time to time
    may be resumed by the Crown for reforesting or any other
    public purposes, and the licensee shall have no right to com-
    pensation for resumption of the whole or part of land in-
    cluded in license, excepting a reduction of rent proportionate
    to the area taken for the purposes above stated, if part of the
    land be resumed.

12. The licensee shall at his own cost insure and keep in
    good repair the buildings on the land comprised in license,
    and shall keep them insured in the name of His Majesty the
    King, in an amount equal to the full insurable value thereof,
    in some reputable insurance office to be first approved by the
    Commissioner of Crown Lands, with whom he shall deposit
    the policy upon effecting the insurance, and shall also deposit
    with him each premium-receipt not later than the forenoon
    of the day on which such premium becomes payable.

13. If, and so often as, the licensee makes default in the
    due and full payment of any rent under the license, or of
    any sum in respect of cost of insurance of buildings as afore-
    said, or if he shall cut, burn, remove, or destroy any timber,
    bush, scrub, or other vegetation, or shoot, destroy, or disturb
    any wild birds or animals, with the exception of goats, wild
    cats, pigs, and rabbits as before provided, on the lands com-
    prised in the license, or if he shall fail to comply with
    clause 5 of these regulations, or in the faithful observance
    and performance of any other of the provisions of these con-
    ditions, or if it is found that he is acting in contravention
    of the aforesaid purposes of “The Kapiti Island Public
    Reserve Act, 1897,” then, and in any such case, the Commis-
    sioner of Crown Lands may without any previous or other
    notice or demand forfeit the license, and in such case all his
    interest therein shall absolutely cease and determine; but
    such forfeiture shall not affect any right or remedy on the
    part of His Majesty the King to recover from the lessee any
    money due, or release the licensee from any penalty or
    liability in respect to anything done or omitted to be done
    by him.

The Crown reserves the right of entry upon the Kaiwhara-
whara No. 3 Block for the purpose of fencing in the graves
which are therein.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.