3332
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Fourteen years.
2. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, must accompany each tender.
3. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration is required. Residence is not compulsory. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.
4. Possession will be given on the date of acceptance of tender, except in the case of Section 25, Block XI, Omona Survey District, which will be 1st January, 1911.
5. The lease shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.
6. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.
7. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease without consent.
8. The lessee shall not fell nor destroy any of the native bush now growing on the land comprised in his lease without consent, and shall securely enclose with a fence such natural bush as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may direct.
9. The land shall not be cropped nor broken up, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
10. 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.
11. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture if the lessee fails to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

FRANCIS SIMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 13th August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, under the provisions of section 132 of the Land Act, 1908, at this office, on Wednesday, the 23rd day of November, 1910, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—CAMPBELLTOWN HUNDRED.

Rural Lands.

• Weighted with £11 11s., valuation for fencing near south boundary.

Nearly all open land, mostly level, chiefly swamp, with some sandhills towards the north and north-west. Soil sandy loam, and in the swamp dark loam and peaty. Accessible by road, but a railway-crossing is necessary. Distant 1 mile and 50 chains from Awarua Railway-station; two miles from Greenhills Railway-station.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under Section 129 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 14th June, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under the renewable-lease system to James Enright, of St. Bathan’s, farmer and coal-miner, under section 129 of the said Act, on or after Friday, the 16th September, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

An estimated area of 129 acres, being part of Section 6, Block IX, Blackstone Survey District.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 2nd August, 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 Tuesday, the 27th day of September, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

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

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £768 10s., valuation for improvements, consisting of 200 acres grassing, 310 chains fencing, and well-built modern house, buggy-house, shed, stable and three small rooms; stock-yard. Of this amount, £590 may remain on mortgage, the balance, £178 10s., to be paid immediately on approval of application.

Altitude varies 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. Agricultural and pastoral land of inferior to very good light loam, on decomposed rhyolite formation; undulating to broken. About 400 acres bush, 1,600 acres fern; balance once sown and in good grass, but now gone back considerably; well watered.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 18th July, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotment is open for selection on renewable lease, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 12th day of September, 1910. 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 Tuesday, the 13th day of September, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—CLUTHA COUNTY.—CLUTHA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Weighted with £14, valuation for improvements, consisting of clearing, grassing, and fencing.

The section was originally covered with bush, but about 4 acres has been cleared and sown in grass. The aspect is good; the soil is light. The distance from a school is about two miles, and from Romahapa Railway-station about two miles and a half.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.