3598
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 88

Road, about one mile and a half north-westward from the post-office in the Township of Mackenzie. The land is of good quality, flat and slightly undulating, with good soil on clay subsoil.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Thirty-three years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years.
2. Rental: 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.
4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee) and a half-year's rent; also the rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January, 1911.
5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.
6. Including all other land already owned, held, or occupied under a tenure of more than one year's duration, no person may apply for more than 5,000 acres; every acre of first-class land being reckoned as 7½ acres, and every acre of second-class land being reckoned as 2½ acres.
7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.
8. Residence is to commence within one year, and to be continuous for ten years.
9. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price; within two years to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre.
10. A renewable lease is registered under the Land Transfer Act, 1908.
11. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
12. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years' continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.
13. Lessee has no right to minerals, without license; but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, road-making, or building purpose.
14. Lessee may pay up to 90 per cent. of capital value of allotment in sums of not less than £10; rent to be reduced proportionately. All moneys so paid shall be repayable to the owner of the lease when it is renewed or determined. No conditions, except residence and payment of rent, are enforced when amount so paid is not less than 33 per cent. of the capital value. Any money exceeding 33 per cent. of capital value is repayable to lessee on application.
15. In the event of the lease not being renewed the value of the improvements shall not constitute a debt due to the lessee by the Crown, but shall be paid by the incoming tenant or purchaser.
16. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
17. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious plants.
18. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses which now are or may be upon the land, and the Land Board shall have the power at any time to enter upon and make any drain through the land that it may deem necessary.
19. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the lessee.
20. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in good order and repair.
21. A right to search for and take gravel for making or maintaining roads is reserved. Payment to be made for surface damage only.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

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

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 30th August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for license by public auction, at this office, at 11 o’clock a.m., on Thursday, the 27th day of October, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Run 501 (Class A), being northern portion of the Auckland Islands. Area, 38,600 acres. Term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £10 per annum.
Run 502 (Class A), being southern portion of the Auckland Islands. Area, 75,600 acres. Term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £7 10s. per annum.
Run 514 (Class A), being the Enderby and Rose Islands. Area, 1,995 acres. Term, twenty-one years. Upset rental, £5 5s. per annum.
Possession will be given on date of sale.

Description of Runs.

Runs Nos. 501, 502, and 514 are all high broken country, ranging from 600 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. The western side of the Main Island forms an almost unbroken line of precipitous cliffs about 1,400 ft. high, but which sink to a much lower elevation in the north of the group. The eastern side is cut up into many deep inlets, forming excellent harbours, some of them advancing to within a few miles of the western coast. The whole island is hilly. The lower part of the island, especially on the eastern side, is mainly covered with forest; the upper portion is composed of open meadow or tussock. A Government steamer makes periodical visits to the depots which have been established on the islands for shipwrecked sailors.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Disposal under Section 128 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 19th July, 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 128 of the said Act, on or after Wednesday, the 26th day of October, 1910.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Canterbury Land District open for Lease.

District Lands Office,
Christchurch, 30th August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run is open for lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m., on Wednesday, the 5th day of October, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT. — ASHLEY COUNTY. — MOUNT THOMAS SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Pastoral Land.

This run is situated to the south-west of Mount Thomas, on the upper course of the Garry River. Access may be obtained either from Cust Railway-station, a distance of about eight miles and a half in a southerly direction from the run, or from the West Oxford Railway-station, a distance of about ten miles in a south-westerly direction across the Ashley Gorge Bridge.
The run comprises generally hilly land, ranging in altitude from about 500 ft. to about 1,500 ft. above sea-level, with an easterly aspect. The area is divided into two portions by the Garry River, the portion lying on the western side of that river being well grassed, while the eastern portion carries some manuka scrub and fern. The soil on the lower slopes is good and of a clayey nature, but the higher portions are more stony. The run is well watered by the Garry River, Wooded Gully Creek, and several small streams.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.