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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Reserve in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 11th day of August, 1909, for a lease of the undermentioned reserve under the provisions of section 315 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MANGAHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.

Locality and Description.

Situated near the Manawatu Gorge Bridge, east of Hall Farm Settlement, and between the Ballance–Woodville Road and the Manawatu River. The access is from Woodville or Ballance, which are about four miles distant. Comprises a natural clearing of low-lying flat land of good quality (subject to flood), covered with grass and clover, toitoi grass, rushes, &c. The soil is of a rich alluvial nature, on shingle formation.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, fourteen years.
2. Tenders should be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, and indorsed on outside “Tender for lease,” and 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. The lessee shall have the right to use the land comprised in the lease for grazing purposes only.
4. 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.
5. All persons duly authorised in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of “The State Forests Act, 1908,” or for felling or removing from the land any trees or timber.
6. 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.
7. 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, without the payment of compensation to the lessee.
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 not light or permit any fire to be lighted within or in the vicinity of the State forest, nor shall he intentionally or negligently allow fire to spread in or into such forest. In the event of any damage to forest, flax, &c., caused through fires so lighted or spreading the lessee shall be liable for the value of such damage, and shall also be liable to the penalty provided in clauses 10 and 11 of the State Forest Regulations.
10. The lease shall be subject to the conditions that the land comprised in lease shall be fenced, the vegetation shall be conserved as far as possible, and the road through it shall be kept open for traffic, and sheep only shall be allowed to graze upon the land.
11. Possession will be given on date of acceptance of tender, from which date rent will commence.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 21st June, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction, at this office, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 11th day of August, 1909, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Class II.

Possession will be given on day of sale.
Valuation for improvements, £240 13s. 6d. (fencing £236 13s. 6d., and sheep-dip and yards £4); to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

DESCRIPTION OF RUN.

Run No. 532 is situated in the Centre Hill Survey District, and is accessible by main road from Mossburn (about five miles) or by road up Hamilton Burn (the same distance). The country is inferior; mostly terrace land, intersected by two creeks, the Centre Burn and Hamilton Burn. The feed on the terrace is scant, most of the herbage being red-tussock, while there is a large area of peat swamp, and some manuka; on the creek-flats the feed is better, and there is good shelter. Most of the country is good for only six months in the year. The run is substantially fenced, excepting about two miles and a half of the south-eastern boundary. A subdivisional fence divides the run into two portions. The height above sea-level is about 1,300 ft.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Disposal of Land in Otago Land District under Section 128 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 31st May, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land, under section 128 of the said Act, on or after Wednesday, the 8th day of September, 1909.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 42, Block H, Clarendon Survey District: 3 acres 1 rood 34 perches.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 25th May, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land is open for sale or selection, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 1st day of September, 1909.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAITEMATA COUNTY.—WAIPA-REIRA PARISH.
Second-class Land.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.