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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 128

what wet. Situated on the Greymouth-Barrytown Road,
adjoining Rapahoe Post and Telephone Office, seven miles
from Greymouth.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. One year's rent at the rate bid, together with £2 2s.
   lease fee, to be deposited on the fall of the hammer.
2. Possession will be given on the date of sale.
3. Term of lease is fourteen years, without right of renewal.
4. On the expiry of the lease the lessee will be entitled to
   compensation for improvements, valued by arbitration.
5. No conditions are imposed as to residence or improve-
   ments.
6. Rent is payable half-yearly, in advance.
7. Lessee to have no right to dispose of his interest in the
   lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of
   Crown Lands.
8. Lessee to prevent the growth and spread of noxious
   weeds.
9. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and other assessments.
10. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions not fulfilled
    within thirty days after the date the same ought to be ful-
    filled.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for
Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 24th October, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is
open for selection on renewable lease, and applications
will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, and the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru,
up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 14th December, 1914.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land
Board at the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, at 12
o'clock noon on Tuesday, the 15th December, 1914, to answer
any questions the Land Board may ask, but if any applicant
so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of the
district in which he resides.

The ballot, if there is more than one applicant, will be held
at the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, immediately
after the examination of applicants.

Preference will be given to landless applicants who have
children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding
two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully.

SCHEDULE.

LEVELS COUNTY.—AROWHENUA SURVEY DISTRICT.—
MEADOWS SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

SECTION 13, Block IX : Area, 10 acres 1 rood 32 perches ;
capital value, £340 ; half-yearly rent, £7 13s.

Weighted with £37, valuation for improvements consisting
of hut and fencing.

All flat land of good quality, on subsoil of clay and gravel.
Situated about a mile from the Washdyke School, and four
miles from Timaru.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, thirty-three years, with a perpetual right
   of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years,
   and a right to acquire the freehold.

2. Rent, 4½ per cent. per annum on the capital value,
   payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.

4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory de-
   claration, and on being declared successful deposit £1 1s.
   (lease fee) and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken period
   between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following
   is also payable.

5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be
   simultaneous.

6. Order of selection is decided by ballot, preference being
   given to landless applicants with children dependent on them,
   or who have within preceding two years been twice unsuccess-
   ful at former ballots.

7. No person may hold more than one allotment.

8. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days
   after being notified that it is ready for signature.

9. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all
   rates, taxes, and assessments.

10. 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 fore-
    going, and within six years, improvements are also to be
    effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land,
    10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every
    acre of third-class land.

11. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of
    lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then
    only with permission.

12. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office and at
the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 12th November, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned educa-
tion reserves will be offered for lease by public auction
at the Courthouse, Clyde, on Tuesday, the 22nd day of
December, 1914, at 11 o'clock a.m., under the provisions of
the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the
Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF CLYDE.

Education Reserves.

SECTION 11, Block I : Area, 1 rood 12 perches ; upset annual
rental, £1.

Sections 16 and 17, Block X : Area, 2 roods ; upset annual
rental, £2.

Section 18, Block X : Area, 1 rood ; upset annual rental,
£1.

Weighted with valuation for improvements as follows :
Section 11, with £8 10s. for shed and fencing ; Sections 16
and 17, with £67 10s. for fencing, fruit trees, and removal
of stones ; Section 18, with £44 10s. for fencing, fruit trees,
and removal of stones.

These sections are situated in the Town of Clyde, and are
quite convenient to railway-station, post-office, and school.
The town is served by a water-supply. The sections are
level, and the land is light and shingly.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. Possession will be given on 1st January, 1915, on which
   date the term will commence.
2. A half-year's rent at the rate offered, lease and regis-
   tration fees, and valuation for improvements to be paid on
   fall of the hammer.
3. The term of lease is twenty years and six months, with-
   out right of renewal.
4. At the end of term lease to be offered by auction for
   further term of twenty-one years at rent to be fixed by
   arbitration, the incoming lessee to pay the value of the im-
   provements, which is to be handed over to the outgoing
   lessee.
5. No assignment or sublease without consent.
6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid
   on rent in arrear.
7. Consent of Land Board to be obtained before subdivid-
   ing, erecting any buildings, or effecting other improvements.
8. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 3rd November, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of
the Land Act, 1908, that an estimated area of five
(5) acres to be cut out of Section 25, Block IV, Tautuku
Survey District, Otago Land District, will be sold in terms of
section 140 of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 11th day
of February, 1915.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.