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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

Crown Lands in Chertsey Township, Canterbury Land District,
for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 18th June, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands
will be offered for lease by public auction under the
provisions of section 130 of the Land Act, 1908, at the Court-
house, Rakaia, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 30th
July, 1913, on the terms and conditions set forth below.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF CHERTSEY.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Term of lease, five years from the 1st August, 1913 ;
   but subject to resumption at any time in the event of the
   land being required by the Government.

2. The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.

3. The land shall be used for grazing purposes only, and
   shall not be broken up unless it is necessary to renew the
   grass, in which case it shall be laid down in grass and clover
   in a satisfactory manner with a small quantity of oats for
   shelter, the oats to be fed off, and not harvested. No crop
   of any kind shall at any time be taken off the land.

4. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number
   of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration
   is required. Residence and improvements are not com-
   pulsory. 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 on account of
   the aforesaid possible resumption, nor for any other cause.

5. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or
   otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease without
   the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands
   first had and obtained.

6. 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, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious
   weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of
   Crown Lands.

7. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case 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 have
   been fulfilled.

Possession will be given on the 1st August, 1913, before
which date the present lessees have the right of removing
any fencing erected by them on the land.

Full particulars may be ascertained at the District Lands
and Survey Office, Christchurch.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Land in Hauraki Mining District for License.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 4th June, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is
open for license under the Regulations for the Occupa-
tion of Pastoral Lands, in Hauraki Mining District ; and
applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m.
on Monday, 28th July, 1913.

The ballot for the land, if there is more than one applicant,
will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland,
at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, 31st July, 1913.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL COUNTY.

37½ acres in Block VII, Otama Survey District.

Weighted with £31 15s. for improvements, comprising
9 acres felled and grassed and 22 chains fencing.

Altitude, 20 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level. One-third undu-
lating land, balance broken ; about 5 acres manuka forest ;
9 acres felled and grassed ; remainder scrub land. Soil fair
to very poor, on slate formation. Distant two miles and a
quarter from Whitianga by cart-road. The only available
water is brackish, being subject to tidal influences.

Term of License.

Term, twenty-one years, with conditional right of re-
newal. All applications are subject to the approval of the
Land Board ; and applicants who are landless within the
meaning of the Land Act shall have preference at the ballot,
if one is necessary.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public
Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 16th June, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves
will be offered for lease by public auction at this office
at 10 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, 5th August, 1913, on the terms
and conditions set forth below, under the provisions of the
Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—PUHIPUHI SURVEY
DISTRICT.

Weighted with £2,895, valuation for improvements con-
sisting of house of sixteen rooms, schoolhouse of three rooms,
men’s whare, store, blacksmith’s shop, implement-shed,
stable, woolshed and yards, reservoir and water-supply,
garden and plantations, road and subdivisional fencing,
and half-share in 175 chains boundary fencing.

About 607 acres flat or low undulating hills, mostly plough-
able ; stony in places ; balance sandhills. Situated about
twenty-five miles from Kaikoura and twenty-nine miles from
Ward Railway-station.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Possession will be given on 1st January, 1914.

2. Term of lease, fourteen years, without right of renewal.

3. The improvements on the land comprised in the lease
   shall in their entirety become the property of the Crown
   on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease.

4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance ; but
   in the case of the owner of the existing improvements
   becoming the purchaser of the lease he shall pay yearly to
   the Receiver of Land Revenue, Blenheim, the sum at which
   he purchases the lease, less the sum of £150, the said sum of
   £150 to be conceded yearly by the Crown in consideration
   of the lessee’s improvements reverting in their entirety to
   the Crown on the expiration or sooner determination of the
   lease.

5. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose
   of his interest in the lease without the consent of the Com-
   missioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

6. 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.

7. The lessee shall at all times during the currency of the
   lease keep the interior and exterior of all buildings on the
   land comprised in the lease in good order and condition
   (fair wear and tear, and damage by fire and tempest excepted),
   and in a clean and sanitary condition, and he shall during
   the years 1918 and 1924 paint the exterior of the said build-
   ings with at least two coats of paint to the satisfaction of the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands, and he shall, on the expira-
   tion or sooner determination of the lease, deliver up in their
   entirety the said buildings, so kept and painted, to the Crown.

8. The lessee shall insure and keep insured all buildings
   and erections at present existing on the land comprised in the
   lease, in the name of His Majesty the King, during the term
   of the lease, in some reputable insurance office approved by
   the Commissioner of Crown Lands (such insurance to be for
   the amount of the full insurable value), and he shall produce
   and deliver to the Commissioner the policies of such insur-
   ance, and the receipts for the renewal premiums,