3382
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 113

250 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level. Situated on Hokitika to Kumara main road and Gillams Gully Road, a distance of nine miles from Hokitika and a mile and a quarter from Stafford Railway-station.

Grey County.—Waiwhero Survey District.

Section 3313, Block V: Area, 294 acres; capital value, £230; half-yearly rent, £4 12s.

About 5 acres flat, remainder low hills steep in places, the whole carrying mixed bush consisting of rimu and kamahi of no commercial value, with a dense undergrowth of fern and supplejack. Soil is fair, of a loamy nature, on gravel formation; well watered. Altitude, 100 ft. to 320 ft. above sea-level. Situated three miles from Barrytown Post and Telephone Office by metalled dray-road.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

1. Term of license, twenty-one years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years, but without right of purchase.

2. Rent payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.

4. No person is eligible to hold more than one license.

5. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. license 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.

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

7. 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 unsuccessful at former ballots.

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

9. Residence is to commence within four years in bush land or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, and to be continuous.

10. Improvements.—Licensee 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 foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, and 10s. for every acre of second-class land.

11. Licensee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.

12. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years’ continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.

13. Licensee has no right to dispose of sawmilling timber or silver-pine.

14. The right is reserved to the Crown to grant licenses to cut timber and other rights appurtenant thereto, and free right of access must be allowed to the holders of such licenses and their employees.

15. Holders of miners’ rights have right to prospect.

16. The Warden may grant mining privileges subject to compensation for improvements only.

17. The licensee has no claim to compensation on account of any injury to stock resulting from sawmilling or mining operations.

18. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

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

Lighthouse Reserve at Manukau Heads for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 27th September, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 17th day of November, 1915, for a lease for fourteen years of the Manukau Heads Lighthouse Reserve (excluding the portion reserved for the use of the lightkeepers), being Section N.E. 144, Awitu Parish, containing 356 acres, more or less. Lease to be subject to the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and the special conditions herein contained. Minimum annual rental, £60.

The lessee will be required to forthwith erect a suitable fence on the Manukau coast for the purpose of preventing stock from damaging the lupins growing thereon; also to repair or reconstruct as a proper legal fence the fence adjoining the lightkeepers’ reserve; and to eradicate any blackberry growing on the land leased. Public right of access over any tracks across the land is reserved.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Lease to be for grazing purposes only, and subject to resumption at twelve 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 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.

5. The lessee shall not be entitled to cut or make use of any timber on the land, and shall take all reasonable steps to preserve such timber from destruction by fire or otherwise.

6. The lessee shall discharge all rates, taxes, charges, and other assessments that may become due and payable.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Full particulars may be ascertained on application at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Grazing-areas in Hauraki Plains, Auckland Land District, for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 29th September, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for year-to-year leases of the undermentioned grazing-areas will be received at this office, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 17th day of November, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HAURAKI PLAINS.—OHINEMURI COUNTY.—WAIHOU AND WAITOA SURVEY DISTRICTS.

DESCRIPTION OF GRAZING-AREAS.

Lot 1.—Along the frontages of the Piako River and Ngarua Canal there is a fair amount of purua and other native grasses, but further back the country becomes peaty. Low flats are subject to occasional floods, but some of the country is above flood-level.

Lot 2.—This lot is covered throughout with native grasses; the back portion along Ngarua Canal is also good. In flood-time the artificial bank along Ngarua Canal is above high-flood level.

Lot 3.—The river-flats are covered with purua grass, whilst on the higher peat country, which is above flood-level, there is rough feed.

Lot 4.—This lot is covered with purua and other native grasses, and is subject to a high flood. The bank along Waikaka Canal is partly above high-flood mark.

Lot 5.—This lot has a fair amount of rough feed on it, and is above high-flood mark.

Lots 6, 7, and 8.—The river-flats on the several lots are covered with purua grass, whilst the back peaty country