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time as may be determined, of removing or otherwise disposing of the same.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Tenders should be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch, and indorsed on the outside “Tender for Lease of Reserve.” Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, must accompany each tender.

2. Possession will be given on the 1st day of March, 1911.

3. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may at any time resume possession of the land comprised in the lease, or any portion thereof, by giving to the lessee twelve months’ notice in writing of his intention so to do.

4. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause.

5. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

6. The land shall be used for grazing purposes only, and shall not be broken up or cropped without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

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

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

9. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.

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.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Selwyn Settlement, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 14th December, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 23rd day of January, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the District Lands Office, Auckland, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 26th January, 1911, to answer any questions the Land Board may ask, but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of the district in which he resides.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held on Thursday, the 26th January, 1911, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., at the District Lands Office, Auckland.

Preference will be given to landless applicants, and the decision of the Land Board as to which of the applicants are landless shall be final and conclusive.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—MATAMATA COUNTY.—PATETERE NORTH* AND PATETERE NORTH-EAST SURVEY DISTRICTS.—SELWYN SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £660, valuation for improvements consisting of 100 acres grassing, 310 chains fencing, and well-built modern house, buggy-house, shed, stable and three small rooms, and stock-yard. Of this amount, £590 may remain on mortgage, the balance, £70, to be paid immediately on approval of application.

Altitude, from 500 ft. to 950 ft. above sea-level. Distant about ten miles from Okoroire Railway-station by good formed road; Okoroire Post-office and hotel about seven miles from the section. Undulating to broken agricultural and pastoral land of inferior to very good light loam, on decomposed-rhyolite formation; well watered.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under Section 138 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 13th December, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under section 138 of the said Act, on or after Wednesday, the 15th March, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

An estimated area of 85 acres of unsurveyed land, being part of the site reserved for the Town of Gladstone, and now called Section 52, Block I, Lower Hawea Survey District.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Town of Cobden Extension, Westland Land District, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Hokitika, 28th November, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction at the Court-house, Greymouth, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 25th day of January, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF COBDEN EXTENSION
Town Land.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Disposal under Section 140 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 25th October, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 3, Block VII, Nuhaka Survey District, Wairoa County, containing 1 acre 2 roods 17 perches, will be disposed of as a cheese-factory site, under section 140 of the Land Act, 1908, to the Nuhaka Co-operative Dairy Company (Limited), on or after Friday, the 27th day of January, 1911.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.