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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 120

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 11th October, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

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

Pastoral Runs in Westland Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 16th October, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for license by public auction, for terms of twenty-one years, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, on Wednesday, 29th November, 1916, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Class A.

Run No. 626, Christobel, Grey County: Area, 12,750 acres; upset annual rental, £7 10s.; term, twenty-one years.
Run No. 633, Perth River, Westland County: Area, 31,560 acres; upset annual rental, £5; term, twenty-one years.

Class B.

Run No. 103, Mount Graham, Westland County: Area, 3,250 acres; upset annual rental, £3; term, twenty-one years.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Run 626, Christobel, occupies the headwaters of the Grey and Mary Rivers. Practically the whole consists of bush-covered hillsides, with a small proportion of open hilltops. Greatest altitude, 4,500 ft. Distant about forty-four miles from Reefton—twenty miles by dray-road and twenty-four miles by horse-track.

Run 633 comprises bush-clad land between the Wataroa and Perth Rivers; cattle-feed only. Access is by bridle-track up the Wataroa River, about four miles from Wataroa Bridge.

Run 103 occupies the bush-clad slopes of Mount Graham, and is suitable for cattle-grazing only. Distant ten miles from Hokitika and four miles from Lower Kokatahi Post and Telegraph Office by metalled road.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF PASTORAL LICENSE.

1. Purchaser or applicant 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 or on being declared the successful applicant. 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 the license the value of licensee’s improvements will be protected.
10. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

The runs are offered subject to all existing mining and timber rights and right of access thereto. The right is reserved to the public to use all existing tracks, and free and unrestricted right of access along such tracks must be allowed at all times.

The right is reserved to grant mining and timber rights over the runs, and free right of access must be allowed to all areas over which mining or timber rights may from time to time be granted.

The right is reserved to the public to take timber for domestic purposes from such portions of the runs as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may from time to time determine.

The holders of miners’ rights and mining privileges shall have the right to use all watercourses for the purpose of discharging therein tailings, mining debris, or waste water, and the licensees shall have no right to any compensation whatsoever on account of any damage or injury alleged to have been caused by the exercise of such right.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.