APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 975

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.

Lands in Township of Dromore, Canterbury Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 31st March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the unsold sections in the Township of Dromore, grouped as noted hereunder, will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Court-house, Ashburton, on Tuesday, 26th May, 1903, at 2 p.m., for a term of seven years, at the upset annual rentals stated. In the event of the leases of any of the allotments not being disposed of at the auction, they will immediately thereafter be open for selection at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWNSHIP OF DROMORE.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease will be for a period of seven years, commencing on the day of sale, subject to termination upon six months’ notice in the event of the land being otherwise required.

2. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

3. One year’s rent, and a lease fee of £1 1s., must be paid on the fall of the hammer, or with the application for the lease.

4. Lessees will be required, within six months from the commencement of the lease, to securely fence the land, and thoroughly clear it of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds now growing upon the land, and to so keep it cleared during the whole of the term. Not later than the sixth year of the term the lessee will be required to have the land satisfactorily laid down in grass and clover, and it must be so left at the expiration of the term. No crop of any kind will be permitted to be taken off the land.

5. No compensation will be paid for any improvements effected by the lessees; but they will be allowed, on the expiration of their leases, or in the event of the land being resumed as hereinbefore provided, to remove any fencing or buildings erected by them upon the lands.

6. In addition to the above, the leases will be subject to the general conditions applicable to leases of Crown lands under “The Land Act, 1892.”

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
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.

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 Hakataramea 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.