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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 136

deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

The owner of the smaller building partly on Section 31 and partly on Section 32 will be allowed one month from date of sale in which to remove it, if not already removed. Titles will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908. Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Nelson Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 12th December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 9th February, 1915, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—MURCHISON COUNTY.—ARNAUD AND ROTO-ITI SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Class A.

Run No. 58: Area, 14,800 acres; upset annual rental, £50; term, twenty-one years.

DESCRIPTION.

About half birch bush, remainder open; about 400 acres flat and undulating, balance very steep and broken. Altitude, 2,000 ft. to 7,300 ft. Well watered. Access from Top House Post-office and Telegraph-station—five miles by dray-road, two miles by formed bridle-track, and eight miles by rough horse-track through the bush.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF PASTORAL LICENSE.

1. Purchaser must be over twenty-one years of age.
2. One half-year’s rent; £1 1s. (license fee), and statutory declaration to be deposited by purchaser on the fall of the hammer. Rent commences from date of license.
3. No person may hold more than one run, except on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the approval of the Minister of Lands. If a husband holds a run his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.
4. Runs classified as pastoral lands (Class A) may not be resumed for settlement; runs classified as pastoral-agricultural lands (Class B) may be so resumed without payment of compensation; 300 acres of any run may be resumed for grassing experiments.
5. Rent is payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st March and 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty days of due date a penalty of 10 per cent. is added.
6. Term of license to be as stated hereon, with contingent right of renewal over the whole or a subdivision of the run for a similar term.
7. Licensee to prevent destruction or burning of timber, burning of snow tussock, burning of other tussock, except in July, August, and September; to prevent growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds or plants; to keep down rabbits, and refrain from burning grass during such months as the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time determine.
8. Licensee to have no right to the timber or flax on the land comprised in the license.
9. With the permission of the Land Board, the licensee may,—
   (a.) Cultivate a portion of the run and grow winter feed thereon;
   (b.) Plough and sow in grass any area not exceeding 3,000 acres;
   (c.) Clear of bush or scrub any portion of the run and sow same in grass;
   (d.) Surface-sow in grass any portion of the run.
   On expiry of license the value of licensee’s improvements will be protected.
10. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

F. A. THOMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Auckland Land District for Lease by Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 5th December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 15th day of January, 1915, for leases for a term of ten years of the undermentioned reserves, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.—TOWN OF RAWENE.

Section 248B, 31 perches; minimum annual rental, £20.
„ 248C, 5 „ „ £9.

Situated adjoining the Courthouse at Rawene. Section 248B is loaded with £720, being valuation for four houses, garden, fencing, &c.; Section 248C, with £225 for offices and shop.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Lease shall be subject to resumption at six months’ notice.
2. The lessee shall have no right to compensation, either for improvements put on the land or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause; but he may, on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease, remove all buildings or fences erected by him, but not otherwise.
3. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
4. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of all noxious weeds on the land, and 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.
5. The lessee shall discharge all rates, taxes, charges, and other assessments that may become due and payable.
6. Rental payments in arrear for two calendar months shall render the lease liable to termination; or a breach of covenant in the lease, expressed or implied, shall entitle the Crown to re-enter and determine the lease.
7. Tenders to be endorsed on the outside “Tender for Lease,” and to be accompanied by the first half-year’s rent, at the rate tendered, and lease fee £1 1s. Valuation for improvements to be paid within seven days of acceptance of tender.
8. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

Full particulars may be ascertained on application at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 9th November, 1914.

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, the 18th day of February, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Section 378, Pirongia Parish, Block XIV, Alexandra Survey District: Area, 4 acres.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th September, 1914.

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, the 7th day of January, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Section 2, Block XVI, Takahue Survey District: Area, 313 acres.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.