Feb. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 285

Generally open, flat land, of good quality.

Lot 2, Reserve, &c., are all in grass. Weighted with a valuation of £17 7s. for about 72 chains of boundary-fencing. The Crown reserves to itself all rights of cutting or permitting the cutting of the willows growing on this holding, together with free rights of ingress, egress, and regress for or in connection with such cutting.

Lots 1, 3, Reserve, &c.: The southern portion is in new grass. Between that portion and the stream which intersects the holding there is an area of about fifteen acres in stubble; and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, either with or immediately after which the land must be sown down in grass. Weighted with a valuation of £11 for about 50 chains of boundary-fencing. The Crown reserves to itself all rights of cutting or permitting the cutting of the willows growing on this holding, together with free rights of ingress, egress, and regress for or in connection with such cutting.

Lots 6, 13, &c.: The northern portion is in stubble, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. The southern portion is in old grass. Weighted with a valuation of £20 for about 58 chains of boundary-fencing.

Lots 4, 5, &c.: About twenty acres of the southern portion is in grass; the remainder is in stubble, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. Weighted with a valuation of £20 for about 39 chains of boundary-fencing.

Lots 8, 9, &c., are all in stubble, and the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. Weighted with a valuation of £19 12s. for about 55 chains of boundary-fencing.

Lots 7, 10, &c.: About eleven acres at the southern end is in new grass; the remainder is in stubble, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. Weighted with a valuation of £14 6s. for about 45 chains of boundary-fencing.

Lots 11, 12, &c.: The eastern portion is in stubble, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. The western portion is in grass. Weighted with a valuation of £14 for about 43 chains of boundary-fencing.

Domett Village.

Lot 44, &c.: Partly low down-land; balance good flat valley-land; all in stubble. The new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. Weighted with a valuation of £27 18s. for about 77 chains of boundary-fencing.

Lots 30 to 34, &c., are principally low well-grassed land. The hill portion is now in rape, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a grain-crop, followed by a root or green crop, either with or immediately after which the land must be sown down in grass. The remainder is in stubble, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. Weighted with a valuation of £10 3s. for about 38 chains of boundary-fencing.

Lots 35 to 41, &c., consist of flat land; good soil. The south-eastern paddock of about fourteen acres is in stubble, and from this portion the new lessee will be allowed to take a root or green crop, followed by a grain-crop, with which grass must be sown. The remainder is in grass. Weighted with a valuation of £20 for about 35 chains of boundary-fencing.

Possession of the lands will be given on 1st March, 1905, or as soon thereafter as applications are approved by the Land Board.

The outgoing tenants have the right, for a period of one month from 1st March, 1905, of removing any fences (except boundary-fencing) which they may have erected upon the lands comprised in their leases, and the new selectors will take possession subject to this right.

The lessees of these lands will be liable, under the provisions of the Fencing Acts, in respect of boundary-fences erected by the holders of contiguous lands.

The leases of blocks comprising parts of the Railway Reserve will be liable to termination at any time in respect of such reserve, or village sections adjacent thereto, on six months’ notice in writing being given to the lessee that the land is required by Government, and no compensation shall be claimed or given in respect of such termination, but future payments of rent shall be abated in proportion to the area so resumed.

Special attention is drawn to Condition No. 8, prohibiting any cropping which would injure or remove any survey mark or peg.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is seven years.

2. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed, and shall, immediately after the application has been approved, or declared successful at the ballot, deposit a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the land applied for. Such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the 1st day of March, 1905. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof, and the amount of valuation for improvements (if any), before being admitted to possession of the land.

3. In case of more than one application being lodged on the same day for the same farm, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

4. No person may become the holder of more than one allotment.

5. No lessee will be allowed to transfer, sublet, or in any way part with the possession or occupation of the whole or any portion of his holding, either for cropping or otherwise, for any period whatsoever, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

6. The lessee must at least once a year properly clean, clear from weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses which are now or may be upon the land; and the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have the power at any time to enter upon and make any drain or road through the land that he may deem necessary.

7. The lessee must at least once a year properly cut and trim all live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon the land during the term, and shall stub all gorse not growing as fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious plants.

8. In the event of the lessee cultivating any of the land included in his lease he will be allowed (subject to the conditions hereinbefore specially expressed as to certain of the allotments) to take not more than three successive crops of any kind, and if any grain-crops are taken they shall be alternated with green or root crops, so that no two grain-crops shall be taken in succession; and either with or immediately after a third crop of any kind the land shall be properly sown down with good cultivated grasses and clovers, and left in pasture for at least two years from the harvesting of the last crop before being again cropped, but in any case the lessee shall lay the whole of the land down in pasture at least one year before the termination of his lease, and shall so leave it at the expiration of his tenancy. In the case of farms comprising parts of the railway reserve or small subdivided lots no cultivation shall be done upon the same which would injure or remove any survey mark or peg.

9. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any of the covenants herein the lease shall be liable to forfeiture; and in case of a breach of the conditions relating to the trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown