APRIL 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1077

boundary of Section 41, 36 chains, £28 16s.; fencing on half north boundary of Section 33, 18 chains, £12 12s.; fencing on east boundary with mining reserve, 40 chains, £12; subdivisional fencing from Mundell’s Yards up the hill, 10 chains, £3 15s.; subdivisional fencing from Section 41 to Section 33, 26 chains, £20 16s.; subdivisional fencing round small paddock near Section 41, 14 chains, £9 16s.; total, £182 11s.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Land in Otago Land District open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 6th April, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 25th May, 1915.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the Courthouse, Lawrence, on Thursday, the 27th May, 1915, at 1 o’clock p.m., to answer any questions the Land Board may ask, but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of the district in which he resides.

The ballot will be held at the Courthouse, Lawrence, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

Preference will be given to landless applicants who have children dependent on them or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully.

SCHEDULE.

BELLAMY SETTLEMENT.—TUAPEKA COUNTY.—BEAUMONT AND TUAPEKA WEST SURVEY DISTRICTS.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £180. Repayable in cash, or in seven years by fourteen half-yearly instalments of £15 11s. 1d.; total half-yearly payment, £26 7s. 1d.

†Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £450. Repayable in cash, or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £22 14s. 6d.; total half-yearly payment, £69 15s.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the land comprise fencing (also dip and yards on Section 10A) valued as follows: Section 1A, £11 11s.; Section 2A, £37 16s.; Section 3A, £19 10s.; Sections 4A and 5A, £39 2s.; Section 6A, £49 12s.; Section 7A, £137; Section 8A, £153 16s.; Section 9A, £205 13s. 6d.; Section 10A, £216 11s.; Section 11A, £2 16s.

On Section 8A there is a hut, valued at £7 10s., which is not included in the value of the section, and which must be paid for in cash.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Bellamy Settlement is situated on the main road from Lawrence to Roxburgh. The nearest section to Beaumont Railway-station is about half a mile distant, and the farthest about three miles away. The Town of Lawrence is about twelve miles from Beaumont (Dunkeld). The settlement comprises flats, ridges, spurs, and gullies. A good proportionate area of the ridges and spurs can be cultivated. There are patches of manuka scrub on some of the ridges, and in some of the gullies. The soil is a black loam on a clay formation. Altitude, from 180 ft. to 1,100 ft. above sea-level. The general quality of the land varies from very fair to very good.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 14th January, 1915.

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 29th day of April, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forest Reserve (Part) in Auckland Land District or Lease by Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up till 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 26th April, 1915, for a lease for ten years of about 75 acres of the forest reserve in Block XV, Wairere Survey District, adjoining Mr. Sandford’s Section 1, Block IV, Tapapa, in accordance with the provisions of section 315 of the Land Act, 1908, and of the State Forests Act, 1908. Minimum annual rental, £3 10s.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. LEASE to be for grazing purposes only, and subject to resumption at six 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 grant to all persons duly authorized in that behalf free right of ingress, egress, and regress for any of the purposes of the State Forests Act, 1908, or for felling and removing from the land any trees or timber as aforesaid.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.