APRIL 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 909

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands; and he shall, at the proper season in each year, clip and trim all gorse and other live fences on the land included in the lease, including the outer fences around the shelter plantation, and he shall be at liberty to enter upon the other portions of the section not described or included in the lease for that purpose.

9. The lessee will keep all buildings, fences, ditches, drains, watercourses, gates, fixtures, and other things upon and about the land in good order and condition, including the outer fences on boundaries of reserve which enclose the plantation, and he shall so yield them up at the end of the term.

10. The lessee shall at the expiration of the term yield up the whole of the land in permanent pasture of grasses and clovers.

11. The lessee shall not cut the cultivated grasses or clovers for hay or seed during the first year from the time of sowing as aforesaid, nor shall he at any time remove from the land or burn any straw grown upon the land. The lessee shall have no right to cut or remove any tree in the shelter plantation surrounding the land comprised in the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

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

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Janefield Settlement, Otago Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 18th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

In the event of more than one application being received for the section on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TAIERI COUNTY.—TAIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.—JANEFIELD SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £220, repayable in twenty-one years.

Description and Locality of Section.

First-class open, level, agricultural land, abutting on the Otago Central Railway. The following buildings and improvements go with the section: Eight-roomed dwelling-house and scullery, dairy, store, stable, cow-byre and cart-shed, plantation, fruit-trees, and fencing round homestead—value, £220: half-yearly payment of interest and sinking fund, £8 11s. 7d. The following buildings do not go with the section, and will be disposed of by tender: Old piggeries, with binder-shed; cow-shed, containing sixteen stalls; barn, with loft and chaff-house; piggery, and brick boiler-house. The buyer of these buildings will be allowed one month from date of acceptance of tender in which to remove them.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Marlborough Land District open for Lease on Application.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Tuesday, the 19th May, 1903, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

If more than one application is received for the run on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.
Second-class Pastoral Country.

About 1,350 acres of flat, fenced in on north bank of Wairau River by well-conditioned fence; 85 acres of this is a flax swamp, partly drained, and of the remainder three-fourths is well grassed, partly with English, but principally native grasses. A woolshed with two-roomed hut, and small paddock and yards, is situated about the centre of this flat. Beyond this the country is steep and rough for the most part, though here and there, as in Birch Hill Creek, are small patches fairly grassed, and capable of improvement. About one-half the area of this run is taken up by birch bush, in patches, and scrub, the north side of the mountain lying into the Goulter River being especially broken and rough, and, as is the case on the south face, carring tutu and fern, with little grass. Altitude from 950 ft. to 5,400 ft. Well watered with permanent streams throughout. Distant about forty miles from Blenheim by dray-road, passing through Birch Hill Station, and crossing the river opposite latter homestead. Formed dray-track leading from this crossing into the bush at the back of old Section 102, whence posts and firewood can be drawn. Eastern boundary partly fenced (about one mile and a half) by good fence. Possession on day of ballot.

Small Grazing-run No. 141 is offered for lease subject to the following special condition: That the lessee has no right to the timber in the two clumps of bush shown on the sale-plan and numbered 1 and 2 respectively, except such as may be required for fencing or for his domestic use, and the Crown reserves the right to grant permission to any person to enter upon the run and cut and remove therefrom such timber as may be required for domestic or fencing purposes.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 10th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction, at the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, on Wednesday, the 15th day of April, 1903, at 3 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
Class I.

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1904.

This run is situate on the eastern slopes of the Grampian Mountains, and extends about eleven miles and a half in a southerly direction from the Hakatarama Pass, at an altitude of from 2,000 ft. to 5,600 ft. above sea-level. The lower spurs of the range are easy and sloping, and are mostly covered with tussock, snow-grass, blue-grass, and other native grasses. The improvements consist of about twenty miles and a half of boundary and subdivision fencing, and cob hut with iron roof. Included in this length of fencing are about three miles of Government rabbit-fence on the southern boundary, that are not to be paid for by the incoming tenant. The maximum amount which the incoming tenant will be liable for on account of improvements is £630.

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

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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