974
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £2 2s. lease fee, which includes cost of registration, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.
2. Immediate possession will be given.
3. Term of lease, twenty-one 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, subject to penalty at the rate of 10 per centum per annum for any period during which it remains in arrear.
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 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.
12. Lease liable to forfeiture for breach of conditions.
13. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 22nd March, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Wednesday, the 28th day of April, 1915, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and its amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, and amendment.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Town of Havelock.

Section 8, Block XXVII: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 5s.
Situated about three-quarters of a mile from Waitahuna Railway-station by a good road.

Town of Hawksbury.

Section 3, Block XXII: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 5s.
Weighted with £5, valuation for improvements consisting of fencing and shed.

Section 2, Block XXIV: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 10s.
Weighted with 8s., valuation for fencing.

Section 4, Block XXIX: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 10s.
Weighted with 15s., valuation for fencing.

Section 6, Block XXX: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 10s.
Weighted with £3 11s. 3d., valuation for fencing.

Section 8, Block XLIV: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 7s. 6d.
Weighted with £96 10s., valuation for improvements consisting of buildings, fencing, orchard, and garden.

These sections are situated in the Borough of Waikouaiti within easy distance of the railway-station. The borough is served with an excellent water-supply. The sections are good residential sites.

Town of Herbert.

Section 14, Block XI: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, 7s. 6d.
Section 9, Block XXIII: Area, 1 rood 1 perch; upset annual rental, 10s.
Weighted with £1 6s., valuation for fencing.
The Town of Herbert is on the railway-line about fourteen miles from the Town of Oamaru. Section 14, Block XI, is a fair building-site, but is some distance from railway-station and school. Section 9, Block XXIII, is a very good building-site close to railway-station.

Town of Palmerston.

Section 18, Block XII: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, £1.
Weighted with £62 12s. 6d., valuation for improvements consisting of building, fencing, and garden.
Section 17, Block XXXI: Area, 39 perches; upset annual rental, £2.
Weighted with £261, valuation for improvements consisting of dwellinghouse, outhouse, and fencing.
The Borough of Palmerston is served with a good water-supply. The sections are good residential sites close to school, post-office, and railway-station.

Abstract of Conditions of Lease of Reserves in First Schedule.

1. Possession will be given on 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 1st May, 1915, and 30th June, 1915, lease and registration fee, and valuation for improvements to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
3. The term of the lease is twenty-one years, without right of renewal.
4. At the end of term lease to be offered by auction for further term of twenty-one years 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.
6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.
7. Consent of the Land Board to be obtained before subdividing, erecting any buildings, or effecting other improvements.
8. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Glenomaru Survey District.

Section 5, Block VII: Area, 52 acres 2 roods 19 perches; upset annual rental, £10 12s.
Weighted with £120 1s., valuation for improvements consisting of stable, fencing, clearing, and grassing.
Situated within two miles of Glenomaru Railway-station, and about three-quarters of a mile from a school. Part was originally under bush. A few dead trees remain, and a number of logs are on the ground. Part could be ploughed now, and the whole could be if the stumps were extracted. The soil is very fair, and the aspect is good.

Maungatua Survey District.

Section 2 of 16, Block I: Area, 38 acres 2 roods 16 perches; upset annual rental, £29 5s.
Weighted with £209 14s., valuation for improvements consisting of five-roomed house, stable, and fencing. This amount may be subject to slight alteration.
Situated about three miles and three-quarters from Otokia Railway-station, about a mile and a half from a school, and about six miles from Outram. There is a dairy factory across the road. The roads along two boundaries are good. Level land of good quality. A creek runs diagonally through the section.

Taieri Survey District.

Part Section 17, Irregular Block: Area, 41 acres; upset annual rental, £66 12s. 6d.
Weighted with £26 10s., valuation for fencing.
A very good and almost level section. Would make a good dairy-farm, as it produces excellent grass and root crops. The soil is a good black loam, on a clay subsoil. Part has not yet been cleared of sunken timber. Situated about a mile and three-quarters from Outram Railway-station, and within easy reach of a dairy factory.
NOTE.—The area is approximate. The exact area will be determined after survey of the proposed contour channel. The rental will be increased or decreased as the area is shown to be greater or less than 41 acres.