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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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DESCRIPTIONS OF RESERVES.

Reserve 1154.—Alluvial level land, part overlaid by gravel deposited by the Eyre River; all in grass. Altitude, about 550 ft. The gorse in two paddocks has spread into the river-bed. Access by formed road, two miles from Bennetts Railway-station.

Reserve 1138.—Level arable land, badly infested with twitch. Good soil if properly treated; would grow cereals and root crops; watered by races. Altitude, 740 ft. Access by good road from East Oxford, two miles and a half.

Reserve 920.—Level alluvial land. Light soil, improving from north to south; suitable for roots and legumes; south end oats and barley. Two miles from Weedons Railway-station by good road.

Reserve 923.—Level alluvial light land, improving in character from north to south. Suitable for roots and legumes. Gorse has spread from road boundary. Two miles and a half from Weedons Railway-station.

Reserve 1164.—Level alluvial land, all fit for cultivation, and growing roots and legume crops; two-thirds suitable for barley and oats. Five miles from Templeton Railway-station by good road.

Reserve 919.—Light, level, alluvial land; suitable for cultivation and growing root and legume crops; watered by water-race. Four miles from Templeton Railway-station by good road.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with rent for the broken period up to 1st July, and £2 2s. lease fee and cost of registration, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. Possession will be given 1st April, 1915.

3. Term of lease, fourteen years, with right of renewal for further similar terms at rentals based on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

4. Rent payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st days of January and July in each year.

5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.

6. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the consent of the Land Board.

7. Lessee to keep the land free from noxious weeds, rabbits, and vermin.

8. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the consent of the Land Board.

9. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.

10. Lessee not to make improvements without the consent of the Land Board.

11. Lessee not to take more than three crops in succession, one of which must be a root crop; after the third crop the land to be left in pasture for at least three years; at least two-thirds of the area cropped to be left in pasture at the expiration of the term; penalty for breach, £5 per acre.

12. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improvements; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Board; failing disposal, the land and buildings to revert to the Crown without compensation.

13. Lease liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent within six months after due date, or for breach of conditions.

14. Land Board may resume not more than 5 acres for school-site upon reduction of rent and compensation for crops.

15. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

16. Lessee to have no right to any minerals.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 7, Block I, Mangaorongo Survey District, Auckland Land District, containing 3 acres, will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 11th day of March, 1915.

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, 29th October, 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 11th day of February, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 7, Block X, Whangape Survey District: Area, 25 acres 2 roods 6 perches.

Section 13, Block X, Waoku Survey District: Area, 338 acres and 29 perches.

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 Taranaki Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 4th December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 7, Block VIII, Opaku Survey District, containing 20 acres, will be disposed of under the provisions of section 14 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, and section 35 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, on or after Thursday, the 11th day of March, 1915.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 16th November, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that about 3 acres of the railway reserve in Block VII, Pouatu Survey District, Taranaki Land District, will be disposed of under section 131 of the said Act on or after Friday, the 19th day of February, 1915.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 29th October, 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 11th February, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 3, Block IV, Town of Menzies Ferry: Area, 10 acres 3 roods 30 perches.

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