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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

4. The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.
5. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may hold, and no declaration is required. Residence and improvements are not compulsory.
6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
7. The lessee shall have no right to fell or remove from the land any live or dead trees or timber, whether standing or lying on the ground.
8. All persons duly authorized in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for such purposes as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may deem expedient.
9. 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.
10. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds 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 lessee will at all times during the term of the lease keep all fences upon or about the land in good and substantial repair.
12. The lease will 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.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Elderslie Settlement No. 2, Otago Land District,
open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 26th March, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease; and applications will be received at this office and the Courthouse, Oamaru, on Monday, the 29th day of April, 1912, up to 4 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.—AWAMOKO AND OAMARU SURVEY DISTRICTS.

First-class Land.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the allotments consist of boundary and internal fences valued as follows: Allotment 1A, £4 7s. 6d.; Allotment 2A, £6 17s. 6d.; Allotment 3A, £25 13s. 4d.; Allotment 4A, £39 2s. 6d.; Allotment 5A, £64 7s. 2d.; Allotment 7A, £45; Allotment 8A, £49 12s. 6d.; Allotment 9A, £25 14s. 2d.; Allotment 10A, £39 18s. 4d.; Allotment 11A, £43 3s. 10d.; Allotment 12A, £58 3s. 6d.; Allotment 13A, £46 10s. 6d.; Allotment 14A, £26 10s.; Allotment 15A, £32 12s. 6d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The settlement forms part of the well-known and highly-improved Elderslie Homestead Block, situated in the fertile Waiareka Valley, and distant about nine miles from the Town of Oamaru by rail or first-class gravelled and metalled main road.
The railway-siding of Elderslie adjoins the centre of the property, and at Enfield, about two miles nearer Oamaru, there is also a railway-station, school, creamery, and post and telegraph office.
The country varies in altitude from 160 ft. to 450 ft. above sea-level, being partly level and partly low undulating hills, and practically all ploughable. The soil throughout is rich, and particularly adapted for the growth of all cereals and root crops, and the climate is dry and healthy.
The allotments are nearly all ring-fenced, and the existing and proposed road frontages are particularly good.
There is a valuable and permanent water-supply, which has been properly conserved, and is available for irrigation or stock-watering purposes on those allotments which are connected with the service by means of existing water-pipes.
The growing crops of mangels and turnips on the settlement must be taken and paid for by the lessees of the respective allotments—viz., 2A, 8A, and 15A—upon which such crops are growing, at a valuation to be made and declared immediately before the ballot. Payment to be made by the successful applicant immediately he is declared.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR WATER-SUPPLY.

1. No lessee shall construct a water-closet or pig-stye, or bury nightsoil, or construct any drain within 500 ft. of the land reserved for water-supply purposes, or within 500 ft. of any creek-bed or depression along which water may at any time flow or drain on to the said land so reserved for water-supply purposes, or do or permit any other act or thing to be done on the land leased to him which will foul or contaminate the water stored on the said reserved lands or otherwise render it unfit for the purposes aforesaid.
2. The lessee of any allotment now connected by means of pipe-lines with the storage reservoir shall have the privilege of being supplied with water therefrom for irrigation or stock-watering purposes in manner hereafter mentioned, at a rate to be fixed from time to time by the Crown.
3. The lessee shall effect all repairs to the pipe-lines traversing his land, and in any case where such lessee declines or neglects to effect such repairs the Crown shall be entitled to do so at the expense of the said lessee.
4. The lessee shall supply a gauge of suitable dimensions and of a type to be approved by the Crown, and shall not draw any water from the said supply save through such gauge.
5. The gauge shall be locked and the key retained by the Crown, and the lessee shall not have possession of any key giving access to the said gauge-box.
6. The Crown may at any time diminish the said supply or cut it off entirely.
7. The lessee shall keep all taps on the supply-pipe within his land in good order and condition and free from leakage.
8. All plant, including windmills, in connection with the water-supply shall remain the property of the Crown, to whom the right of access is reserved to any allotment for the purpose of inspection or repairs or work of any kind in connection with the said supply.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Westland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Hokitika, 12th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the Courthouse, Greymouth, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 15th day of May, 1912.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF COBDEN.

Town Land.