Mar. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 755

Primary-education Reserves in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned primary-education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Wednesday, the 26th April, 1916, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 229, Town of Hunterville; area, 4 acres 2 roods 38 perches; upset annual rent, £6.

Accessible by a formed and metalled road. Comprises a ridge with two faces felled and in grass; soil is a good loam on papa and sandstone formation. Well watered by permanent streams.

Lot 3 of Section 116, Town of Palmerston North; area, 23·3 perches; upset annual rent, £6.

Weighted with £9 valuation for improvements.

Situated in Grey Street within five minutes’ walk from the post-office and railway-station. Flat land enclosed by an old sawn-timber fence. The improvements, which are old and dilapidated, comprise fencing, open-fronted stable or shed, and fowl-house.

Mauriceville County.

Section 38, Hastwell Village Settlement; area, 2 acres 2 roods 3 perches; upset annual rent, £1.

Situated on Main Road, about two miles and a half from Mangamahoe Railway-station. Flat land, felled and in grass, intersected by a small stream. The soil is of good quality on shingle formation.

Wanganui County.

Section 4, Block VIII, Town of Mataroa; area, 1 rood; upset annual rent, £1.

Weighted with £18, valuation for improvements.

Section 6, Block X, Town of Mataroa; area, 1 rood; upset annual rent, £1.

Weighted with £147, valuation for improvements.

Access is from Mataroa Railway-station, about half a mile distant. Both sections are part of a natural clearing, are flat, and in native grass. Soil is a good heavy loam on papa formation. The improvements on Section 4, Block VIII, comprise stable, shed, and fencing; and on Section 6, Block X, a dwelling 54 ft. by 18 ft., shed, cowshed, fencing, fowl-run, &c.

Section 10, Block IV, Town of Mataroa; area, 2 roods; upset annual rent, £1 5s.

Weighted with £51 7s., valuation for improvements.

Section 4, Block VII, Town of Mataroa; area, 1 rood; upset annual rent, 15s.

Weighted with £10, valuation for improvements.

Section 10, Block VIII, Town of Mataroa; area, 1 rood 5 perches; upset annual rental, 15s.

Weighted with £1 18s. 3d., valuation for improvements.

Section 2, Block IX; area, 1 rood; upset annual rent, 15s.

Weighted with 17s., valuation for improvements.

Section 24, Suburbs of Mataroa; area 2 acres 2 roods 26 perches; upset annual rent, £2 15s.

Weighted with £13 3s. 6d., valuation for improvements.

Access to each section is obtained from the Mataroa Railway-station by a formed and metalled road. Flat land in grass, part of a natural clearing. There is a small area of open native bush at north-west end of Section 24. Soil is of good loam on papa formation. Elevation, about 1,700 ft. above sea-level. The improvements, which must be paid for in cash, are as follows: Section 10, Block IV, fencing and stable; Section 4, Block VII, old dwelling; Section 10, Block VIII, fencing; Section 2, Block IX, fencing; Section 24, fencing.

Waitotara County.—Taumata mahoe Survey District.

Section 2, Block I, Whakaihuwaka Block; area, 1,090 acres 3 roods 24 perches; upset annual rent, £84.

Situated on the Taunoka Road. The access is from the Wanganui River, about three and a half miles distant by Taunoka Road, part dray road and part bridle-track, or from Waitotara, about thirty-nine miles distant. Comprises rough spurs with gorges between, and a small area of flat and undulating country in south-west corner. Soil is of good quality on papa formation. The forest is heavy, and comprises tawa, mahoe, rewarewa, rata, a few pines, and patches of tawhero and birch on ridges, with dense undergrowth. Well watered by branches of Mangataunoka Stream. Elevation from about 700 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Masterton County.—Otahoua Survey District.

Lot 1 of Section 101, Block I (being part of Lot 3, and Sections 2, 3, 5, Block II, Waipoua Township); area, 3 acres 3 roods; upset annual rent, £7.

Lot 2 of Section 101, Block I (being part of Lot 3, and Sections 7, 8, 10, 12, Block II, Waipoua Township); area, 5 acres; upset annual rent, £9.

Lot 3, of Section 101, Block I (being part of Lot 3, Lot 4, and Sections 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, Block II, Waipoua Township); area, 17 acres; upset annual rent, £26

Situated within one mile from Masterton Post-office. Access is from Queen Street by metalled road. Flat and undulating land in grass, with soil of light or alluvial nature on shingle formation.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), and value of improvements (if any) to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

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

3. Rent of renewal lease to be fixed by arbitration. If lessee does not desire new lease at end of any term, land to be leased by auction. The incoming lessee to pay the value (to be handed over to the outgoing lessee) of the improvements effected with the consent of the Land Board. Failing disposal, the land and improvements to revert to the Crown without compensation.

4. Land Board to approve of improvements proposed.

5. No transfer or sublease allowed without the consent of the Land Board.

6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrears.

7. Buildings on land to be insured to their full insurable value.

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

9. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.

10. Lessee to keep the land free from noxious weeds, rabbits, and vermin.

11. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the consent of the Land Board.

12. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.

13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Additional Conditions for Section 2, Block I, Taumata mahoe Survey District.

1. Lessee not to take more than three crops in succession, one of which must be a root crop; after the third crop the land to be left in pasture for at least three years; at least two-thirds of the area cropped to be left in pasture at the expiration of term. Penalty for breach, £5 per acre.

2. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and to yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.

3. Lessee to have no right to any minerals, all rights to which, together with rights of access for the purpose of working the same, are reserved by and on behalf of the Crown.

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

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.