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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 9th June, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 28th day of July, 1903, for a lease of the under-mentioned lands.

In the event of no tender being received on the date mentioned, the sections will remain open thereafter for lease on application, at the annual rental stated.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
Rehu Village.

Sections Nos. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (grouped): Area, 17 acres 2 roods 5 perches; minimum annual rental, £3 3s. 4d.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease will be for a period of ten years.
2. 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.
3. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.
4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly, in advance.
5. 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.
6. 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, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
7. The lessee shall, within three years from the date of the lease, fell the bush now growing on the land, and at the proper season burn the same, and shall thereafter sow the burnt area with a mixture of good English grasses.
8. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture if 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 Blind River Settlement, Marlborough Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 26th May, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Monday, the 29th day of June, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—MARLBOROUGH COUNTY.—CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLIND RIVER SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £201 for improvements, consisting of iron cottage, stable, and trap-shed, wooden dwellinghouse, thatched roof, 20 acres of pasture land laid down in English grass, 203 chains of mixed fencing, and road-formation.

This section consists of mixed land, 120 acres being good open agricultural country level and undulating, 20 acres in English grass, 30 acres ploughed, 70 acres tussock and native grasses, balance of land pastoral country. About four miles and a half from Seddon Railway-station.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Glenham Settlement, Southland Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 1st June, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of July, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—WYNDHAM SURVEY DISTRICT.—GLENHAM SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £120, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £4 13s. 7d. Total half-yearly payment, £27 1s. 7d.

Open agricultural land, at an altitude of from 300 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. The land is undulating, and well supplied with water by the Kuriwai and other streams; the soil is good; 190 acres have been ploughed and sown in English grass, which requires renewing. The distance to Glenham Railway-station is a mile and a quarter by an unmetalled dray-road, a mile and a quarter by main road, or two miles and a half total distance.

The improvements which go with the land consist of the half-value of 40 chains of fencing on northern boundary, and the full value of 74 chains of fencing, western and southern boundaries; also 100 chains of subdivisional fencing and two gates: all valued at £59 15s. The improvements which do not go with the land comprise a five-roomed cottage of wood, with weatherboard walls, iron roof, and one double chimney; the front door opens into a central room 12 ft. by 11 ft.; there are two front rooms 12 ft. by 10 ft., a kitchen 18 ft. by 10 ft., and back bedroom 11 ft. by 10 ft.; the ceiling and walls of kitchen are T. and G. lining, the centre room is lined with T. and G. lining, all other walls being scrimmed and papered; the kitchen is lighted by two double-sashed windows, and each room has one large double-sashed window; there is a porch at back 9 ft. by 7 ft., a colonial oven in the kitchen, and one round tank; size of cottage, 31 ft. by 23 ft. by 10 ft.; in good order—value, £95: also a milking-shed 60 ft. by 15 ft., with lean-to, iron roof, twelve bails, two doors, and floored 8 ft. across; chaff-house at end, with door and window, in good repair—value, £25: total value of buildings, £120, repayable by the tenant in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £4 13s. 7d.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands

Pastoral Runs, Otago Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Monday, the 6th day of July, 1903, for the terms and at the upset annual rentals stated, under the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Run No. 140a (Class I.), Tuapeka County: Area, 5,794 acres; term, twenty-one years; upset annual rental, £20; valuation for improvements, £198 17s. 6d.

Situated about two miles from Tapanui, and about the same distance from Pomahaka Railway-station. Fairly good pastoral country, though somewhat broken. The lower portions are fairly well grassed, but the higher elevations are covered with scrub and fern. The country is well watered, and has a westerly aspect.

Sections 44, Block I., and 38, Block VI., Benger District, Tuapeka County: Area, 600 acres; term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £1.

Situated at the Township of Ettrick, Section 44 being known as the Ettrick Domain. The land is of poor quality; about one-half is shingle, and the remaining portion has a light top soil on a subsoil of shingle.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.