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lessees may sustain on account of mining operations carried on below the surface of the demised land or lands adjoining.
6. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the prescribed declaration.
7. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease and registration fee, immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot.
8. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided.
9. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each lease shall be as provided in Part III of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.
10. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I of the said Act.
11. No lessee shall hold more than one allotment, and such allotment shall be held for his or her sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever. Each section is an allotment. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.
12. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

G. J. ROBERTS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands Office,
Blenheim, 6th January, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 26th day of February, 1908, for leases of the undermentioned reserves under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—CLIFFORD BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.

Description and Locality.

Flat land, in rough grass, about 100 ft. above sea-level; good soil, watered by Blind River. Distant about four miles from Town of Seddon by good formed road.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Tenders should be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blenheim, and must be accompanied by a marked cheque or post-office order for an amount equivalent to six months’ rent on the highest rated section tendered for—at the rate offered, which must be equal to or greater than the upset rental—together with £1 1s. lease fee.

2. A person may tender for all or any of the sections offered, but no tender will be accepted for more than one section by the same person, and no tender will be accepted from any person who already holds under any tenure more than 10 acres of land. There are no restrictions as to residence or improvements.

3. Rents shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

4. The lease shall be for a term of fourteen years from the date of the acceptance of tender, but subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

5. The lessee shall have no right to compensation, either for improvements he has put upon the land, or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause; but he may, on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease, remove all fences and buildings erected by him.

6. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the land comprised in his lease except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The land shall not be cropped or broken up except with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and he shall prevent their increase or spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

10. 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.

F. STEPHENSON SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forest Reserve in Auckland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 7th January, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned forest reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of twenty-one years from the 1st March, 1908, at this office, at 10 o’clock a.m., on Friday, the 28th February, 1908, under the provisions of section 232 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—OPUAWHANGA SURVEY DISTRICT.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of one half-year’s rent at the rate offered and £1 1s. lease fee must be made on the fall of the hammer.
2. The lessee shall have the right to use the land comprised in the lease for grazing purposes only.
3. The lessee shall have no right to fell or remove from the land any live or dead trees or timber, whether standing or lying on the ground, nor shall he have the right to cut or remove any flax growing thereon.
4. All persons duly authorised in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” or for felling or removing from the land any trees or timber, or for cutting and removing flax.
5. The lessee shall have no claim for compensation for improvements at any time, but at the expiration of his lease may remove all fencing and buildings erected by him on the land.
6. The Commissioner of State Forests may issue licenses at any time during the currency of grazing-lease to the lessee or other persons to cut and remove either standing or felled timber under the State Forest Regulations, or to cut and remove flax, without the payment of compensation to the lessee.
7. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and he shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
8. 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.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.