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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

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 consisting 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 ploughable; 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 Commissioner 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 buildings with at least two coats of paint to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and he shall, on the expiration 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 insurance, and the receipts for the renewal premiums.
9. The lessee shall at all times during the term of the lease keep in good order and repair all fences now existing on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease deliver up in their entirety the said fences, so kept, to the Crown.
10. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
11. The lessee for the first six years of his lease shall plant with marram-grass, lupins, lucerne, or other suitable vegetation an area of at least four acres per annum of the sandhills on Sections 16 and 17, in a locality to the eastward of the main road to be indicated by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
12. The lessee shall depasture travelling stock at the following rates per head per night, viz.: Horses and cattle, ten or under, 6d.; eleven to fifty, 3d.; over fifty, 1d. Sheep, twenty-five or under, 1d.; twenty-five to two hundred and fifty, ½d.; over two hundred and fifty, ¼d.
13. The lessee shall provide a paddock for horses with proper shelter, and supply accommodation for horses at a charge not to exceed 1s. 6d. for each horse-feed, and paddocking at a charge not exceeding 1s. per night.
14. The lease shall 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 have been fulfilled.

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, on the terms and conditions set forth below, at this office at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 27th August, 1913, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF RANGATAUA.

Situated in Rangataua Township, fronting Nei Street.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Six months’ rent, and £1 1s. lease fee, must be paid by the successful bidder on the fall of the hammer.
2. No declaration is required. Residence and improvements are not compulsory. 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 for any other cause.
3. Possession will be given on the day of sale.
4. The lease shall be for the term specified, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.
5. The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.
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 prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbrier on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbrier, broom, or other noxious weeds and plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
8. The lease shall 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.

In the event of the owners of the improvements not becoming the purchasers of the new leases they will be allowed two months from date of sale in which to remove their buildings, &c.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 15th July, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Thursday, 23rd October, 1913.