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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 42

Reserves in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 30th March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 p.m. on Monday, the 1st day of June, 1903, for the leases of the undermentioned reserves.

If the sections are not applied for on the 1st June, 1903, they will remain open for selection at the upset rentals and for the terms stated below.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

TOWNSHIP OF OHawe.

TOWN OF STRATFORD.

| 191, 231 | 0 2 0 | Free | First 3 years. |
| | | 6 0 0 | Next 4 years. |
| | | 20 0 0 | Remaining 7 years. |

MANGAMINGI VILLAGE (SUBURBAN).

| 62 | 8 2 36 | 2 2 6 | 5 years. |

BLOCK XI., OMONA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 8 | 26 3 24 | 1 6 0 | 10 years. |

BLOCK I., OPAKU SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 8 | 4 2 4 | 0 8 0 | 10 years. |

REHU VILLAGE.

| 3 | 1 3 32 | 0 4 0 | 10 years. |

MANGARHU VILLAGE.

| 14 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | 14 years. |
| 18 | 0 3 28 | 0 10 0 | " |

PUNIWHAKAU VILLAGE.

| 1 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | 14 years. |
| 6 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | " |
| 11 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | " |
| 20 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | " |
| 22 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | " |
| 23 | 1 3 6 | 1 0 0 | " |

PURANGI VILLAGE.

| 12 | 0 1 0 | 0 7 6 | 5 years. |
| 13 | 0 1 0 | 0 7 6 | " |
| 16 | 0 2 0 | 0 15 0 | " |
| 40 | 3 3 26 | 2 0 0 | Year to year. |

PUNEHU VILLAGE, BLOCK XI., OPUNAKE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 23 | 0 2 0 | 0 15 0 | 14 years. |
| 24 | 0 1 0 | 0 7 6 | " |
| 25 | 0 1 0 | 0 7 6 | " |

MAHAKA VILLAGE, BLOCK X., KAUPONONUI SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 15 | 1 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 14 years. |
| 22 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | " |
| 23 | 0 2 0 | 0 7 6 | " |
| 24 | 0 1 0 | 0 5 0 | " |

BLOCK VIII., CAPE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| Part 132 | 0 3 8·6 | 1 0 0 | 7 years. |

CONDITIONS.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee.

2. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration is required. Residence is not compulsory. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

3. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.

4. The leases shall be for the term of years as specified above, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly, in advance.

6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The land shall not be cropped nor broken up.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar upon 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.

9. The lessee of Sections 191 and 231, Town of Stratford, shall, during the first three years of the term of the lease, fill in with earth the gully on both sections to level of street, during which term no rent will be payable.

10. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee should 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.

Small Grazing-run, Otago Land District, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 12th May, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at this office, on Monday, the 6th July, 1903, under the provisions of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
Small Grazing-run.

Open undulating country, with a good aspect. Nearly the whole of the area is ploughable. Well watered. Situated about six miles from Clinton, and about two miles from a school on a good road. Valuation for improvements, £161 7s. These consist of hut, 110 acres cultivated and in grass, and 346 chains boundary and subdivision fencing.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 12th May, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Tuesday, the 7th day of July, 1903.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Section 9A, Block XII., Arapawa Survey District: 775 acres; upset annual rental, £10; term, fourteen years.

Chiefly steep hilly country; about 8 acres flat; light soil; about 400 acres birch bush, remainder manuka scrub, stunted fern, and native grass. About thirteen miles from Picton by road.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.