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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 30th January, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for lease for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal, at the Local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, at 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 29th day of March, 1922, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908, and their amendments.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Geraldine County.—Geraldine Survey District.
SECTION 1, part "B," Reserve 1,400, Block XIV: Area, 73 acres; upset annual rent, £124.
Situated about eighteen miles from Temuka by good road. Comprises heavy swamp land in fair order, and is good dairying country.
Improvements consist of house, shed, trap-shed, and fencing, valued at £330, which must be paid for in cash. Term of lease, two years.

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, 1922, and £2 2s. lease fee and costs of registration, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.
2. Term of lease, twenty-one 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.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 30th January, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for lease by public auction at the Local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, on Wednesday, the 29th day of March, 1922, at 2.30 o'clock p.m., under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Levels County.—Patiti Survey District.
Lots 1 and 2, Reserve 102, Block II: Area, 7 acres 2 roods 7 perches; upset annual rent, £19.
Weighted with £8, valuation for fencing.

Situated in the Borough of Timaru on either side the sports-ground. Lot 1 is in old grass, poor; a little gorse is on the section and frontage; ring fenced. Lot 2 has been under cultivation, and is ring fenced.
Term of lease, seven years.

TOWN LAND.
Waimate County.—Borough of Waimate.
Sections 157 and 158 (Reserve 1354): Area, 1 rood 39 perches; upset annual rent, £5.
This is the old pound-site in Waimate, situated on the corner of Victoria Terrace and Michael Street. It is fenced, but fences in poor condition.
Term of lease, seven years.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of a half-year's rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee, 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 lease will be for a term of seven years without right of renewal, and shall be subject to resumption by twelve months' notice in the event of the land being required by the Crown.
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. The lessee shall renovate all fences, and keep them in good order during the currency of the lease, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Maori Land for Lease by Public Tender.
Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 24th January, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations thereunder, that tenders will be received at the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board up to 4 p.m. on Thursday, the 2nd March, 1922, for lease of the land named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
TUROTO B 2B Block, Pirongia Survey District: Area, 42 acres 3 roods 7 perches; upset annual rental, £10 15s.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of the lease shall be eighteen years from the 1st January, 1922, at the rental tendered, with right of renewal for a further term of seventeen years and a half at a rental assessed at 5 per cent. on the unimproved value of the land at the time of the renewal, such valuation, in the event of a dispute, to be determined by arbitration. Compensation for substantial improvements shall be allowed to the lessee at the expiration of the second term of the lease, as provided in section 263 of the Native Land Act, 1909.
2. Residence to commence within four years in bush lands or swamp lands, and within one year in open or partly open lands, and to be continuous for six years.
3. Lessee has no right to minerals without license, but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, roadmaking, or building purposes.
4. Every lessee shall bring into cultivation,—
   (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;
   (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;
   (c.) Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him;