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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Lands in Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 18th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Reserves in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 23rd March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 29th April, 1914, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIAFU COUNTY.—WAIPiro NATIVE TOWNSHIP.

These sections are practically flat, and are first-class building-sites. Ring-fenced, except on the boundary between the two sections.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. One half-year’s rent, together with £1 ls. lease fee, must be paid 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 date of sale, from which date the rent will commence.

4. The lease shall be for the term of years specified above, 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 payable 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. All persons duly authorized in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for such purposes as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may deem expedient.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, ragwort, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to have been fulfilled.

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

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the education reserve described in the Schedule hereto will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 7th May, 1914, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

PART Section 44, Wairaki Survey District; 14,500 acres. Upset annual rental, £350. Term, fourteen years from 1st March, 1914. Possession on 1st June, 1914. Weighted with £1,947 6s., valuation for improvements.

DESCRIPTION.

All open land, with the exception of a few patches of bush; varying in height from 1,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level. About 4,900 acres are flat land of a shingly nature, with the exception of 300 acres, which are fairly good, the balance being poorly grassed and not fit for cultivation; the remaining area consists of well-grassed downs and hills, and the whole is good safe sheep country. Distant ten miles from Mossburn Railway-station by good gravelled road.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and rent for the broken period between 1st June and 31st August, 1914, lease and registration fees, and valuation for improvements to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. The term of the lease is fourteen years, without right of renewal.

3. The tenant to pay all rates and taxes.

4. The Land Board reserves the right to lay off roads through the run where required.

5. The lessee to be allowed (with the consent of the Land Board) to cultivate for station purposes only, but not for sale, a reasonable area: Provided that not more than one white crop and one green crop be taken off the land; such land then to be laid down with good and sound grass and clover seeds of the descriptions and proportions usually sown in the district and most suitable for the land, and to remain in grass for a period of three years, after which period the same process of cultivation may be repeated. All such cultivation to be subject to inspection by the lessor or his agent.

6. Lessee to have the right to the bush for fencing and firewood, but not for sale.

7. Three months before the expiration of the lease a valuation to be made by arbitration of all improvements consisting of necessary buildings and fencing, the amount of such valuation to be payable by the incoming to the outgoing tenant. In the event of the lessee desiring to effect improvements (fencing and buildings) in addition to those already on the ground it will be necessary to obtain the Land Board’s permission, otherwise such improvements will not be made a subject of valuation.

8. Lease to be liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.