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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 57

Term of lease: Twenty-one years, with conditional right of renewal.

The minimum area that can be selected is 25 acres. On approval of applications survey fees will require to be deposited in accordance with the scale of fees for the survey of Crown lands. Survey fee is credited to the lessee as rent paid in advance.

All applications are subject to the approval of the Land Board, and applicants who are landless within the meaning of the Land Act shall have preference in the ballot.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash.

District Lands Office,
Blenheim, 9th May, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at this office, at noon on Thursday, the 30th day of June, 1910, under the provisions of section 132 of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SOUNDS COUNTY.—WAKAMARINA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £213 15s., valuation for about 95 acres felling, clearing, and grassing.

Rising in altitude to about 1,600 ft. About 95 acres cleared and sown; remainder is fairly heavy bush, chiefly birch; soil is inferior to fair, stony in parts. Access from Nydia Bay by formed road one mile and a half, and then by unformed road a quarter of a mile.

F. STEPHENSON SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Blenheim, 9th May, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease by public auction, at this office, at noon on Thursday, the 30th day of June, 1910, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

There are on the land a good, nearly new dwelling of five rooms, with necessary outhouses, cooking-range, &c., and over 50 chains of ring and subdivisional fencing. Fairly good soil; in grass; generally flat. Access to formed road.

| 14 | XIV | 12 1 12 | 7 0 0 |

Mostly flat land, in grass; fenced on two sides; frontages to Main South Road and Blind River. Distant four miles and a half by main road from Seddon.

TOWN OF WARD.

| 1 | XIII | 3 0 0 | 4 10 0 |

Flat land; well watered by Needles Creek; within 3 chains of site of new railway-station at Ward.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the day of the sale.
2. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever, on the 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. The lease shall be for a term of fourteen years from the 1st July, 1910, but subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government, except in the case of Section 1, Block XIII, Town of Ward.
4. 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 buildings and fences erected by him, but not otherwise. This clause does not apply to Section 1, Block XIII, Town of Ward.
5. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the land comprised in his lease, except with the consent of the lessor.
6. The land shall not be cropped or broken up except with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
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 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.
9. 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.
10. The lessee of Section 1, Block XIII, Town of Ward, shall, within the first twelve months of the term of the lease, erect and maintain an accommodation-house of the value of at least £500.

F. STEPHENSON SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotment in Nelson Land District open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Nelson, 17th May, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotment is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 13th day of July, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

The ballot for the allotment, if there is more than one applicant, will be held at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 14th day of July, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—MURCHISON COUNTY.—TUTAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.—MURCHISON VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Situated in the Murchison Village Settlement, one mile and a quarter distant from the Town of Murchison by a good metalled road, with the exception of 23 chains, 13 chains of which is a formed road and the balance unformed; all flat land; covered with native mixed bush.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The land enumerated above is first-class land, and is a village-homestead allotment, open for selection on renewable lease for the period of sixty-six years under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).
2. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the land shall be open for selection.
3. Applications for lease shall be made in manner as provided in Part I of the said Act; and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson; and a lease shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I aforesaid.
4. 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.
5. The successful applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease and registration fee (£1 1s.), immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot; also the rent for the period elapsing between the date of the lease and the due date of such half-yearly payment.