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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—AKAROA COUNTY.—PIGEON BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—MORICE SETTLEMENT.

Ordinary Farm.

This section is situated in the upper portion of the Morice Settlement, the detached homestead-site of 7½ acres on White’s Road being not quite four miles and a half north-east of Little River Railway-station. It consists of good pastoral land, at an altitude of from 750 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. With the exception of a little bush along the creek it is all cleared bush land of good quality. The section is watered by springs and streams.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in the Townships of Orari and Morven, Canterbury Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 11th December, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned town and village sections at Orari and Morven will be offered for lease by public auction at the times and places, and subject to the conditions, hereunder specified.

In the event of any of the leases not being disposed of at auction, they will immediately thereafter be open for lease on application at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, and the local Land Office, Timaru, at the upset annual rentals stated below, and subject to the same general conditions of lease.

ORARI VILLAGE.

To be offered at the Post-office, Orari, on Tuesday, 6th February, 1906, at 12 o’clock Noon.

MORVEN TOWNSHIP.

To be offered at the Post-office, Morven, on Wednesday, 7th February, 1906, at 12 o’clock Noon.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of a year’s rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee, must be paid on the fall of the hammer, or with the application for the lease.

2. Possession will be given on the day of sale, or on approval by the Land Board of the application.

3. The leases for terms of seven years will be subject to termination upon six months’ notice in the event of the land being otherwise required. Yearly tenancies will be subject to termination at any time upon one month’s notice.

4. The rent shall be paid yearly in advance, free of all deductions whatsoever.

5. The holders of leases for terms of seven years will be required to securely fence the land with a legal fence within six months from the commencement of the lease. No compensation will be paid for any improvements effected by any of 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 land.

6. The lessee shall prevent the growth or spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants upon the land comprised in the lease, and 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. Except as hereinafter provided, the lands shall be used for grazing purposes only, and shall not be broken up nor cropped.

8. The holders of leases of Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, Block IX., Orari Village, will be allowed during the term of the lease to take not more than two green crops, either sown with or immediately followed by grass. A period of at least three years shall elapse between such two crops, and on the expiration of the lease the land must be left satisfactorily laid down in grass and clover not more than two years old.

9. The holders of leases for terms of seven years in the Morven Township will be allowed during the term of the lease to take not more than two grain-crops, either sown with or immediately followed by grass. A period of at least three years shall elapse between such two crops, and on the expiration of the lease the land must be left satisfactorily laid down in grass and clover not more than two years old.

10. The lessee shall not carry on, or permit to be carried on, upon the land or any part thereof any noisy, noxious, or offensive trade, business, or manufacture, or do or suffer to be done thereon any act or thing whatsoever which may be an annoyance to the lessor or any other occupier in the neighbourhood.

11. 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,” or “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 22nd January, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 28th day of February, 1906, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and Part VI of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

QUARANTINE RESERVE at Te Waewae Point, Bluff Harbour, known as Pastoral Run No. 420, Campbelltown Hundred: 5,640 acres; upset annual rental, £52 17s. 6d.; term, fourteen years.

Locality and Description of Run.

Run 420 is situated in Campbelltown Hundred, Southland County, immediately across the harbour from the Bluff, and extends eastward for about nine miles between the ocean and Awarua Bay. The whole block is level, about 30 ft. above the sea, and is of a dry gravelly formation with the exception of a small area of swamp land towards the east boundary. In some places it is fairly well grassed, principally with snow-tussock; in other places considerable areas of moss are in evidence, as well as a few patches of stunted scrub towards the sea. Stock can be driven to and from this run round Awarua Bay from Woodend, some twelve miles.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1907.

Valuation for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Invercargill, before the licensees will be let into possession.

The purchaser must deposit a statutory declaration as required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the first half-year’s rent and license fee of £1 1s. on the fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.