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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 3

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.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 12th 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 21st day of January, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—OTERAMIKA HUNDRED.

SECTION 31, Block IV : Area, 4 acres 1 rood 3 perches.

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 22nd December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction, for the terms stated, without right of renewal, at this office on Wednesday, 10th March, 1915, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

FOR LEASE FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

Southland County.—Town of Invercargill.

Section 2, Block LXII : Area, 1 rood ; upset annual rental, £15.
Weighted with £455 valuation for buildings.

Section 2, Block LI : Area, 1 rood ; upset annual rental, £7.
Weighted with £315 valuation for buildings and fencing.

Section 12, Block LVIII : Area, 1 rood ; upset annual rental, £15,
Weighted with £440 valuation for buildings and fencing.

Part Section 8, Block LXXIII : Area, 20 perches ; upset annual rental, £30.
Weighted with £1,333 valuation for motor garage, &c.

Southland County.—Town of Campbelltown.

Sections 14 and 15, Block XX : Area, 2 roods ; upset annual rental, £1 10s.
Weighted with £5 valuation for fencing.

Southland County.—Town of Limehills.

Section 8, Block XXVIII, and Section 7, Block XXIX : Area, 3 roods 17 perches ; upset annual rental, £1 5s.
Weighted with £1 9s. valuation for fencing.

Section 8, Block III, and Section 2, Block XVI : Area, 2 roods ; upset annual rental, £1 15s.
Weighted with 10s. valuation for fencing.

Section 8, Block XII : Area, 2 roods 16 perches ; upset annual rental, £1 10s.
Weighted with 9s. valuation for fencing.

Section 8, Block V : Area, 1 rood 5 perches ; upset annual rental, £1.
Weighted with £1 valuation for fencing.

Southland County.—Town of Lumsden.

Section 2, Block VI : Area, 1 rood ; upset annual rental, £4.
Weighted with £600 valuation for dwellinghouse, &c.

Southland County.—Town of Winton.

Section 12, Block XII : Area, 1 rood 3 perches ; upset annual rental, £5.
Weighted with £650 valuation for new house, outbuildings, and fencing.

FOR LEASE FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.

Southland County.—Toetoes Survey District.

Part Section 1, Block V, and Part Section 6, Block IV : Area, 171 acres ; upset annual rental, £59 17s.
Weighted with £270 valuation for buildings and fencing.
Land of medium quality, undulating and broken. Situated within half a mile of Waimahaka railway, school, and dairy factory.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the 1st May, 1915, and the term of the lease will commence from the 1st July, 1915.
2. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and rent for the broken period between the 1st May, 1915, and the 30th June, 1915, lease and registration fees, and valuation for improvements to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
3. The lease is for the term stated above, without right of renewal.
4. At the end of the term lease to be offered by auction for a further similar term, at rent to be fixed by arbitration, the incoming lessee to pay the value of the improvements, which is to be handed over to the outgoing lessee.
5. No assignment or sublease without consent.