Aug. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2687

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years and a right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 1st October, 1919, at 10 o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Melville Park Settlement.—Borough of Mosgiel.—East Taieri Survey District.

• Buildings. † Instalment of interest and principal on buildings.

NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment on Section 1s includes payment for the buildings thereon.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital value of the sections consist of boundary and subdivisional fences valued as follows: Section 1s, £19 16s.; Section 2s, £1 5s.; Section 3s, £5 9s.; Section 4s, £1; Section 5s, £2 10s.; Section 6s, £2 10s.; Section 7s, £6.

The improvements not included in the capital values, but which have to be paid for separately, are: On Section 1s, interest and sinking fund on buildings (dwellinghouse, barn, and stable) valued at £325, payable in cash, or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £16 8s. 3d.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £65 4s. 9d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Melville Park Settlement is situated in the Borough of Mosgiel, within easy distance of railway-station, post-office, and district high school. The land is level and of very fine quality, the soil being a very rich black loam resting on a sandy clay formation. Access is by level, well-formed roads. The land is admirably suited for dairying or intense cultivation. Mosgiel has an excellent water-supply, electric lighting, and a large well-known woollen-factory.

Sale posters and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

ROBERT T. SADI),
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 15th July, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction at this office at 11 a.m. on Friday, the 29th day of August, 1919, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—STEWART ISLAND COUNTY.—PEGASUS SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTION 30, Block III: Area, 50 acres; upset annual rental, £1 5s.

Weighted with valuation for improvements consisting of two dwellinghouses valued at £700.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term, twenty-one years from 1st January, 1920.
2. No right of renewal, and no valuation for improvements.
3. Eradication of noxious weeds.
4. No assignment, sublease, or mortgage without consent.
5. A deposit of a year’s rent at the rate offered, valuation for improvements, and £1 1s. lease fee to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
6. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Further particulars may be obtained on application to this office.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Lands at Hanmer Springs, Canterbury Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 11th August, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 23rd day of September, 1919.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—AMURI COUNTY.—HANMER SPRINGS TOWNSHIP.

SECTION 6, Block II: Area, 1 rood 32 perches; upset annual rent, £3.

Section 21, Block III: Area, 3 roods; upset annual rent, £1 10s.

Section 22, Block III: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 26 perches; upset annual rent, £1 10s.

Section 1, Block V: Area, 2 roods; upset annual rent, £1.10s.

Good flat land, near the Hanmer Springs.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of a half-year’s rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee and valuation for improvements, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.
2. Possession will be given on day of sale, or on approval by the Land Board of the application.
3. The leases will be for a term of twenty-one years, with a right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years.
4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free of all deductions whatsoever; and if not paid within twenty-one days after due date the lessor may re-enter upon the land and determine the lease.
5. The lessee shall have no right to mortgage, sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
6. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase or spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
7. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease; and 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.
8. The lessee shall not carry on, or permit to be carried on, upon the land or any part thereof any noisy, noxious, or offensive trade or manufacture, or do or suffer to be done thereon any act or thing whatsoever which may be an annoyance to the lessor or to any other lessee in the neighbourhood.
9. In the event of the lessee, upon the expiry of the term, not again becoming the occupier of the land under a fresh lease, he shall be entitled to payment of valuation for all improvements which he shall have effected upon the land, so far as the same are existing and unexhausted.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.