JAN. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 305

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on 1st May, 1915, and the term of the lease will commence from 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 fees, and valuation for improvements to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

3. Term of lease is twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years.

4. Rent of renewal leases to be fixed by arbitration. If lessee does not desire new lease at end of term, land to be leased by auction. The incoming lessee to pay the value of the improvements, which is to be handed over to outgoing lessee.

5. No assignment or sublease without consent.

6. Interest at the rate of 10 per centum per annum on rent in arrear.

7. Lessee to improve the land and keep it clear of all weeds.

8. Consent of the Land Board to be obtained before subdividing, erecting any building, or effecting other improvements.

9. Lease will be registered under the Land Transfer Act.

10. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

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

Land in Ballachraggan Settlement, Auckland Land District, for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 24th December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 21 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 25th day of January.

The ballot, in case there is more than one applicant, will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, the 28th day of January, 1915, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — PIAKO COUNTY. — WAITOA SURVEY DISTRICT. — BALLACHRAGGAN SETTLEMENT.

SECTION 29, Block XI: Area, 34 acres 3 roods 10 perches; capital value, £410; half-yearly rental, £9 4s. 6d.

Level open land, 40 ft. above sea-level. Four miles from Waitoa Railway-station by formed road. Soil rich loam on clay. Surface-watered. All in grass, with some fescue.

The improvements, which are included in the capital value, consist of 88 chains boundary fencing, 10½ chains subdivisional fencing, and 10½ chains boundary drain; the half share in the whole being valued at £38.

Terms of lease may be seen and forms of application obtained at this office. Applicants are particularly requested to see that their answers to the questions on the application form are full and complete.

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 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.

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.