3870 . THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 82

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

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 11th July, 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 28th day of
September, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act,
1908.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—OHAKUNE VILLAGE SETTLE-
MENT.

Locality and Description.

Situated on Upaue Road, access being from Ohakune
Township, which is about half a mile distant by the main
road, which is formed and metalled, and by Upane Road,
which has been felled and stumped. The section com-
prises all flat land; soil is fairly good though light quality,
on volcanic-grit formation. The forest is heavy, compris-
ing rimu, kahikatea, &c., with usual undergrowth. Offered
subject to the right already granted to Mr. F. J. Carter
to cut and remove all milling-timber from the section.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The land enumerated above is first-class land, and is a
   village-homestead allotment, open for selection on renew-
   able lease for periods of sixty-six years under the provi-
   sions 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 a lease shall be made in manner as
   provided in Part I of the said Act; and all such applica-
   tions shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands,
   Wellington; and a lease shall be issued in accordance with
   the provisions of Part I aforesaid.

4. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occu-
   pation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or
   single), and will be required to make the prescribed decla-
   ration.

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 elaps-
   ing between the date of the lease and the due date of such
   half-yearly payment.

6. All rent must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the
   1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in
   section 180 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent
   is payable as before provided.

7. Improvements and residence on the land comprised
   in the lease shall be provided in Part III of the said
   Act. The provisions of section 162, and all other provisions
   of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements,
   shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.
   The provisions of section 159, and all other provisions of
   the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply
   accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

8. No lessee shall divide, sublet, or transfer the land held
   by him under these regulations, except under and subject
   to the provisions of Part I of the said Act.

9. No lessee shall apply for or hold more than one allot-
   ment, and such allotment shall be held for his or her sole
   use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other
   person whomsoever. Any person who already holds land
   shall not be eligible as a selector.

10. The lease shall be issued subject to the condition that
    the Crown reserves the right to construct and lay down
    tramways, or to authorize any person to do so, though the
    land comprised therein.

11. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as appli-
    cable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these
    regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made
    and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests
    created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or in-
    terests are thereby affected; and the mention of any par-
    ticular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to
    exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to
    the particular case.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public
Tender.

District Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 30th August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for leases
of the undermentioned lands will be received at this
office up to 4 o’clock p.m., on Wednesday, the 26th day of
October, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

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 improve-
   ments 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 with-
   out 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.