MAY 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1727

Education Reserve in Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 29th April, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 13th June, 1918, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—ELLESMERE COUNTY.
E.R. 1184, Block XIII, Leeston Survey District: Area, 35 acres; upset annual rent, £28.

All flat agricultural land, about half of which, however, is somewhat stony. Access by good road, about three miles and a half from Leeston Railway-station.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with rent for the broken period up to 1st July, 1918, and £2 2s. lease fee and cost of registration, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. Term of lease, fourteen years, with right of renewal for further similar terms at rentals based on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

3. Rent payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st days of January and July in each year.

4. 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 yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.

5. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the consent of the Land Board.

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

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

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

9. Lessee not to make improvements without the consent of the Land Board.

10. 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 the term; penalty for breach, £2 per acre.

11. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improvements; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Board; failing disposal, the land and buildings to revert to the Crown without compensation.

12. Lease liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent within six months after due date, or for breach of conditions.

13. Land Board may resume not more than 5 acres for school-site upon reduction of rent and compensation for crops.

14. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

15. Lessee to have no right to any minerals.

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

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 22nd April, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for a lease of the undermentioned land will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 4th June, 1918, under section 124 (2A) of the Land Act, 1908. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT COUNTY.—HAWKSWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.

All the unalienated Crown land in the Conway Village: Area, 53 acres 1 rood 2 perches; minimum annual rental, £30.

All alluvial flat, in native and other grasses, part having been cultivated. About fourteen miles and a half from Parnassus Railway-station. The Conway River flows on northern side, and small permanent stream about the southern boundary.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, ten years from 1st July, 1918; but subject to six months’ notice of resumption at any time in the event of the land being required by the Government.

2. The rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.

3. No compensation can be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor on account of the aforesaid possible resumption; but the tenant shall have the right to remove any fencing or buildings he may have erected during his term of occupancy.

4. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

5. 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, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. He shall also destroy all rabbits on the land and prevent their increase or spread.

6. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee fails 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.

Possession will be given on the 1st July, 1918; the present lessee may remove, within one month from that date, subdivisional fences erected by him, but the boundary-fences must remain.

Tenders should be marked on envelope “Tender for lease, Conway Village.”

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Marlborough Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 30th April, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for temporary license under section 255 of the Land Act, 1908, by public auction at this office at 12 o’clock noon on Thursday, 6th June, 1918, under the provisions of the said Act and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SOUNDS COUNTY.

Run No. 105 (Chetwode Island): Area, 200 acres; term, two years and six months from 1st September, 1918; upset annual rent, £16.

Situated at the entrance to Pelorus Sound. Country easy to broken, carrying good pasture, with considerable tauhinu and other scrubs.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

1. Purchaser must be over twenty-one years of age.

2. The purchaser of the license shall, immediately upon the fall of the hammer, deposit an amount equal to six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. license fee. Rent for period from date of license to 1st September next must also be paid.

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

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may at any time resume possession of the land comprised in the license, or any portion thereof, by giving to the licensee notice in writing of his intention so to do.

5. The licensee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the license, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

6. The licensee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or on account of the aforesaid resumption.

7. The land shall be used for grazing purposes only.

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

9. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever, on 1st March and 1st September in each year.

10. The license shall be liable to forfeiture in case the licensee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said license within sixty days after the date on which the same ought to have been fulfilled.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

H. D. McKELLAR,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.