July 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2219

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £2 2s. lease fee, which includes stamp duty and cost of registration, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. Immediate possession will be given.

3. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with right of renewal for further similar terms, at rentals based on fresh valuations, under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

4. Rent payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st days of January and July in each year, subject to penalty at the rate of 10 per centum per annum for any period during which it remains in arrear.

5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.

6. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the consent of the Land Board.

7. Lessee to keep the land free from noxious weeds, rabbits, and vermin.

8. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the consent of the Land Board.

9. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.

10. Lessee not to make improvements without the consent of the Land Board.

11. Lessee not to take more than three crops in succession, one of which must be a root crop; after the third crop the land to be left in pasture for at least three years; at least two-thirds of the area cropped to be left in pasture at the expiration of the term; penalty for breach, £5 per acre.

12. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improvements; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Board; failing disposal, the land and buildings to revert to the Crown without compensation.

13. Lease liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent within six months after due date, or for breach of conditions.

14. Land Board may resume not more than five acres for school-site upon reduction of rent and compensation for crops.

15. Lessee to have no right to any milling-timber, minerals, or kauri-gum, all rights to which, together with rights of access for the purpose of working the same, are reserved by and on behalf of the Crown.

16. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

Areas are subject to revision, if necessary.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District to be disposed of under Section 129 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 1st July, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that an estimated area of 6 acres of land, being part of Section 20, Block VIII, Tautuku Survey District, will be disposed of under section 129 of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 3rd October, 1912.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 10th June, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease by public auction for a term of twenty-one years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 31st July, 1912, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.