Mar. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 817

Pastoral Lands in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 15th April, 1903, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
Rangiopo-Waiau-Murimotu Blocks.

Locality and Description of Runs.

These runs are situated in the Rangiopo-Waiau-Murimotu Blocks, in the vicinities of Karioi and Waiouru, and are intersected by the main coach-road to Tokaanu and the proposed main trunk railway-line. The access is from Pipiriki, which is about thirty-five miles distant by coach-road. The runs comprise for the most part flat and undulating tussock country, with swamps in places. The soil is of semi-volcanic character, resting on pumiceous formation. The runs are well watered. The improvements, which are included in the rentals, are as follow:—Run No. 1—shepherd’s hut at Kaimanawa, thatch, brick chimney, £10: Run No. 2—manager’s house, 32 ft. by 30 ft., seven rooms and scullery; shearers’ house, 14 ft. by 47 ft.; shearers’ cookhouse, 14½ ft. by 25 ft.; wool-pressing shed, 32 ft. by 45½ ft.; wool-store, 23 ft. by 50 ft.; shearing-shed, 31 ft. by 90 ft.; potaka, 18¾ ft. by 12½ ft.; men’s house, 17½ ft. by 27½ ft.; sheep-yards, wool-scouring plant, fencing—total value, £415: Run No. 3—shepherd’s house, 15 ft. by 27 ft.; yards, fencing—£35.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. Possession of the runs will be given to the purchasers of the licenses on the day of selection.

2. No person or company may become the holder of more than one run under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892”: Provided that the holder of any run under the said Act of a carrying-capacity of less than ten thousand sheep or two thousand head of cattle may become the lessee of an aggregate area sufficient to carry such a number of sheep or cattle. The holder of any small grazing-run under Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” shall not be the holder of any run under Part VI. of the said Act.

3. The licenses shall be dated on the 1st March, 1904, and shall in each case be for the years specified above, from that date.

4. The license shall be subject to the following conditions, amongst others:—

(1.) That if the licensee, or any person claiming an interest through or under him, shall make or cause to be made any agreement or contract, or shall give or cause to be given or taken any negotiable security, for the purpose of defeating or evading the provisions of, or shall in any way whatsoever, directly or indirectly, commit or be privy to a fraud upon, “The Land Act, 1892,” the license shall be liable to be forfeited and revoked;

(2.) That the licensee shall prevent the destruction or burning of timber or bush on the land comprised in the license;

(3.) That the licensee shall prevent the growth or spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the license, and shall with all reasonable speed remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner;

(4.) That the licensee shall destroy all rabbits on the land comprised in the license, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or an officer appointed by him to inspect the ground; and

(5.) That during the months of December to June, inclusive, or such other months, not exceeding altogether seven in any one year, as the Commissioner shall from time to time determine, the licensee shall not burn the grass on the land comprised in the license.

(6.) The licensee shall not at any time during its term have the right, under his pastoral license, to cut, remove, or destroy any native flax growing in or upon any portion of the land comprised in license. The Crown reserves the right to dispose of said native flax, and in the event of the disposal thereof the licensee shall allow free right of ingress, egress, and regress to persons duly authorised or having the right to cut or remove flax growing on any portion of the land included in his license.

(7.) The licensees of Runs 1 and 3 shall not during the continuance of their licenses divert or interfere with the courses of the Hautapu or Waiouru Creeks, or cut drains through the Ngamatea Swamp without the consent in writing of the Land Board.

(8.) The license of Run No. 2 shall be issued subject to the conditions that the buildings thereon, and the land on which they stand, may be resumed by the Crown if required, after twelve months notice to the licensee of its intention to do so, and in the event of such resumption the annual rent payable under the license shall thenceforth be diminished by an amount bearing the same proportion to the total rent that the land resumed bears to the whole area demised, and the rent for the buildings so resumed shall be reduced at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on their value when resumed.

(9.) The licensee of Run No. 2 shall allow the licensees of Runs Nos. 1, 3, and 4, in the Rangiopo-Waiau-Murimotu Blocks, to use the wool-shed, yards, sheep-dip, and wash-pool, if they require them for shearing, crutching, or dagging, at the rate of 10s. for the first hundred sheep or portion thereof, and 2s. for every subsequent hundred or portion thereof, this charge to be made on every occasion that the yards, &c., are used for the above purposes. He shall also allow the use of the dip and yards for sheep-dipping during the dipping season at the rate of 12s. 6d. for the first hundred or part thereof, and 1½d. per head for all sheep above that number, the licensee of said Run No. 2 to provide a well-known and approved dipping material properly mixed, the dipping to take place within a period to be mutually agreed upon by the licensee and the person requiring the use of the dip. Any matter in dispute with regard to the dipping, shearing, crutching, or dagging shall be referred to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, whose decision shall be final in all cases. The licensee of Run No. 2 shall have absolute control of the yards and buildings while they are included in his license, and shall arrange the priority or rotation in which the different licensees above mentioned shall use the same.

(10.) The licensee shall, at his own cost in all things, insure the buildings now standing on land comprised in license, and keep them insured, in the name of His Majesty, in an amount equal to the full insurable value thereof, in some reputable insurance office, to be first approved by the Commissioner; and shall deposit with the Commissioner the policy of insurance forthwith upon effecting the insurance, and shall also duly pay all premiums in respect thereof, and deposit with him each premium receipt not later than the forenoon of the day on which such premium becomes payable. If the licensee at any time fails or neglects to effect or keep on foot such insurance, or to duly pay any such premium or deposit such policy or receipt, it shall be lawful for, but not obligatory on, the Commissioner, at the cost in all things of the lessee, to effect such insurance in such sum as aforesaid or in any other sum, or to pay such premium, as he thinks fit.

(11.) The licensee shall have the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified in his license, but shall have no right to the soil, or timber, or flax, or minerals thereon or therein.

(12.) One half-year’s rent and a license fee of £1 1s. shall be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the purchaser shall make a declaration in terms of section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892.” The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance, on the 1st day of March and the 1st day of September in each year during the term of the license, the half-year’s rent paid on the fall of the hammer being for the half-year commencing on the 1st September, 1903. Should the half-yearly rental at any