Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2849

Reserves in Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 29th June, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the local Lands Office, Westport, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 18th August, 1915, under the provisions of the Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act, 1877, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Buller County.—Kawatiri Survey District.—Block III.

A. R. P. £ s. d.
SECTION 35: Area, 5 0 22; upset annual rent, 2 12 0
,, 36 ,, 4 1 26 ,, 2 4 0
,, 37 ,, 4 0 4 ,, 2 0 0
,, 38 ,, 4 1 26 ,, 2 4 0

The whole of the land is made up of sea-beach sand, with a dense covering of lupins, gorse, patches of blackberry, and a few foxglove. If cleared, and surface left unbroken, would grow good grass. Distant about a mile and a quarter from Westport Post-office and railway-station.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The highest bidder shall be the purchaser, and shall deposit on the fall of the hammer one half-year’s rent, together with the rent for the broken period between the date of sale and the 1st day of January, 1916, and £1 1s. lease fee.

2. The lease shall be for the term of five years, without right of renewal, and shall be subject to termination at any time by three months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

3. The lease shall be for grazing purposes only.

4. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, or on account of the aforesaid possible resumption, or for any other cause; but the value of customary fencing requisite for grazing purposes will be loaded on the land in the event of leases being again offered for public competition.

5. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

6. The rent shall be payable half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st day of January and July in each year.

7. The lessee will have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbrier on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbrier, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lease will be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

The reserves are described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Form of lease may be perused and full particulars ascertained at this office.

F. A. THOMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Lewis and Travers Survey Districts, Nelson Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three-hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more of the purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in Part II of the Schedule hereto from that named in Part I of the said Schedule to that named in Part III of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

ALL that area in Lewis and Travers Survey Districts, in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 6,000 acres, more or less, and being Section 2 of Square 182. Bounded towards the north generally (52000 links and 18800 links), towards the east (8400 links), towards the south generally (20400 links and 52000 links), and towards the west (8400 links), by Crown lands; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; the northernmost corner commencing at a point about 150 chains from the junction of the Alfred and Maruia Rivers.

Reserved for purposes of public utility by notification in the Nelson Provincial Gazette of the 24th of February, 1875, page 22.

PART II.

Description of Portion of Reserve the Purpose of which it is intended to change.

All that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 17 acres 2 roods 15 perches, more or less, being part of Section 2 of Square 182, and now numbered as Section 2, Block IV, Lewis Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a part of the first-mentioned Section 2, 1971.6 links; towards the north-east by a road along the left bank of the Maruia River, 1040.7 links; towards the south-east by another part of the first-mentioned Section 2, 1637 links; and towards the south-west by a line being part of the south-western boundary of the said Section 2, Square 182, 1093.4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: excepting the road one chain wide which intersects the land included within the above-described boundaries. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1911/723A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

PART III.

Intended Purpose.

Resting-place for travelling stock.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES.

Notice of Order of Adoption of certain Child.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 28th July, 1915.

IT is hereby notified that an order of adoption, particulars of which are set out in the Schedule hereunder, has been made by the Native Land Court, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909.

H. CARR,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.