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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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on the land substantial improvements of a permanent character within the meaning of section 3 of “The Land Act, 1892,” to the value of £1 an acre for every acre of agricultural land (first class), 10s. an acre for every acre of mixed agricultural and pastoral land (second class), and 2s. 6d. an acre for every acre of third-class land. For the purposes of this clause the Land Board shall determine and specify in the lease what proportion of the land comprised therein is agricultural, what proportion is mixed agricultural and pastoral land, and what proportion is third-class land.

14. For the purpose of determining whether the lessee has put upon the land substantial improvements to the value and within the time prescribed by these regulations (but for no other purpose), there shall be included the value of all substantial improvements existing on the land at the date of the lease, which improvements shall be deemed to be improvements required by regulation 13, and also all capital sums paid by the lessee in respect of the value of buildings under regulation 24, nevertheless to the extent only of the actual value of such of the said improvements and buildings as are subsisting at the time when their value is included as aforesaid.

15. “Substantial improvements of a permanent character” mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of forest, gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting, gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments or protective works of any kind, or in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, and include the erection of any non-movable building.

16. The lessee shall, within two years from the date of his lease, have the land fenced with a ring-fence, and such fence shall be a sufficient fence within the meaning of “The Fencing Act, 1895.”

17. The lessee shall once a year throughout the term of his lease, and at the proper season of the year, properly cut and trim all live fences on the land at the date of the lease, or subsequently planted thereon, and stub all gorse not growing as fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious plants.

18. The lessee shall not take more than three crops, one of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succession; and either with or immediately after a third crop of any kind he shall sow the land down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers, and allow the land to remain as pasture for at least three years from the harvesting of the last crop before being again cropped.

19. The lessee shall at all times during the term of the lease so farm the land, if the area of the whole exceeds 20 acres, as that not less than one-half of the total area shall be maintained in permanent pasture.

20. The lessee shall not cut the cultivated grass or clovers for hay or seed during the first year from the time of sowing as aforesaid, nor shall he at any time remove from the land or burn any straw grown upon the land.

21. The lessee shall, whenever necessary, but not less than once a year during the term of his lease, properly clean and clear from weeds, and shall at all times during the said term keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses upon the land, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands (hereinafter called “the Commissioner”) or any Crown Lands Ranger of the land district shall have the power at any time to enter upon and make through the land any drain that he deems necessary, without payment of any compensation to the lessee.

22. In the event of the lessee at any time failing to comply with any of the conditions hereinbefore mentioned relating to the trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner to have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the lessee in the same manner as rent.

23. The lessee shall pay all rates, taxes, and assessments levied on or payable in respect of the land during the term of his lease.

24. In the case of land with buildings thereon which have been valued separately, in pursuance of section 54 of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” the following special provisions shall apply:—