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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 17th January, 1916.

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 20th day of April, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area containing 7 acres 3 roods, more or less, and being the portion of the Mokihinui Township lying between the railway and the roads forming the north-western boundaries of Section 1, Block XI, Mokihinui Survey District, and Section 9, Block X, of the said district.

F. A. THOMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th January, 1916.

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, 20th April, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — OTAMATEA COUNTY. — MARERETU PARISH.

SECTION 180 : Area, 64 acres.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Taranaki Land District for Disposal under Section 131 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 11th January, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under section 131 of that Act on or after Monday, the 17th day of April, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Block I, Mahoe Survey District.

Portion of original railway reserve adjoining Sections 45 and 47 : Area, 8 acres 3 roods 13 perches.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Monday, the 28th day of February, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 484A, Taupiri Parish, Waikato County : Area, 9 acres.

Lot 106 of Subsection 1, Opaheke Parish, Franklin County : Area, 1 acre 3 roods 10 perches.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 14th January, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 24th February, 1916, on the terms and conditions set forth below, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—PUHIPUHI SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 18 and 19, Block XI : Area, 1,017 acres ; upset annual rental, £91.

Weighted with £1,774, valuation for improvements consisting of house of five rooms, stable, trap-shed, garden, road, 100 acres bush felled, 300 acres ploughed and grassed, 150 acres surface sown, 314 chains subdivisional fencing, and 510 chains boundary fencing, which must be paid for before possession is given. About 200 acres good agricultural land, flat and low undulating hills ; about 250 acres of pastoral land ; about 100 acres of rough gullies, with a good deal of mixed bush ; and the balance consists of sandhills and shingle. Situated about thirty miles from the Ward Railway-station, and twenty-four miles from Kaikoura.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on date of sale.

2. Term of lease, twenty-one years from 1st July, 1916, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years at a rent to be based on a revaluation of property.

3. The purchaser of the lease shall, immediately upon the fall of the hammer deposit an amount equal to six months rent at the rate offered together with £1 1s. lease fee and the valuation for improvements. Rent for the period to 30th June must also be paid.

4. The improvements on the land comprised in the lease shall in their entirety become the property of the Crown on the expiration of the lease.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

6. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the lease without the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and he shall prevent their increase or spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lessee shall at all times during the currency of the lease keep the interior and exterior of all buildings on the land comprised in the lease in good order and condition (fair wear-and-tear and damage by fire and tempest excepted), and in a clean and sanitary condition, and he shall during the term, as the buildings require it, paint the exterior of the said buildings with at least two coats of paint to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and he shall on the expiration of the lease deliver up in their entirety the said buildings, so kept and painted, to the Crown.

9. The lessee shall insure and keep insured all buildings and erections at present existing on the land comprised in the lease, in the name of His Majesty the King, during the term of the lease, in some reputable insurance office approved by the Commissioner of Crown Lands (such insurance to be for the amount of the full insurable value), and he shall produce and deliver to the Commissioner the policies of such insurance and the receipts for the renewal premiums.

10. The lessee shall at all times during the term of the lease keep in good order and repair all fences now existing on the land comprised in the lease, and he shall on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease deliver up in their entirety the said fences, so kept, to the Crown.

11. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds on the land comprised in the lease, 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.

12. The lessee for the first six years of his lease shall plant with marram-grass, lupins, lucerne, or other suitable vegetation an area of at least four acres per annum of the sandhills on Section 19, in a locality to the eastward of the main road to be indicated by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

13. The lessee shall depasture travelling stock at the following rates per head per night, viz. : Horses and cattle, 10 or under, 6d. ; 11 to 50, 3d. ; over 50, 1d. Sheep, 25 or under, 1d. ; 25 to 250, ½d. ; over 250, ¼d.

14. The lease shall 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 have been fulfilled.

H. G. PRICE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.