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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

Lands in North Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 20th September, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the North Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction for a term of twenty-eight years at this office on Tuesday, the 28th day of October, 1924, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

Rangitikei County.—Moawhango and Ohinewairua Survey Districts.

Run 30, Blocks XV, XVI, and I: Area, 1,600 acres; upset annual rental, £50.

Weighted with £230, valuation for improvements, comprising 329 chains of boundary-fence.

Term of license, twenty-eight years.

Special condition: The purchaser of the license shall erect within two years at his own expense five miles of rabbit-proof fence, which fence on the expiry of the license shall be treated, for valuation purposes, as an ordinary stock fence.

Situated near the head of the Moawhango and Tikerere Streams. Access is from Taihape Railway-station, which is about six miles distant, but usual access is obtained by a track through Run 3 adjoining. About 320 acres are in bush, balance tussock country. Well watered by permanent streams. Altitude, 3,200 ft. to 3,600 ft.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF PASTORAL LICENSE.

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

2. One half-year’s rent at rate offered, £1 ls. (license fee), valuation for improvements, and rent for the broken period from 28th October, 1924, to 28th February, 1925, and statutory declaration to be deposited by purchaser on the fall of the hammer. Rent commences from date of license.

3. No person may hold more than one run, except on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the approval of the Minister of Lands. If a husband holds a run his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.

4. Improvements.—The lessee is required to effect improvements as follows:—

(a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, to a value equal to one year’s rent payable under the lease;

(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to two years’ rent payable under the lease:

(c.) Within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to four years’ rent payable under the lease.

5. Rent is payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st March and 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty days of due date a penalty of 10 per cent. is added.

6. Term of license to be as stated herein, with contingent right of renewal over the whole or a subdivision of the run for a further term.

7. Licensee to prevent destruction or burning of timber; to prevent growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds or plants; to keep down rabbits, and refrain from burning grass during such months as the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time determine.

8. No tussock or snow-grass is to be burned, save with the prior consent in writing of the Board, and subject to such conditions, restrictions, and directions as the Board may impose and give.

9. Roads may be taken without payment of compensation.

10. Licensee to have no right to the timber or flax on the land comprised in the license.

11. With the permission of the Land Board, the licensee may—

(a.) Cultivate a portion of the run and grow winter feed thereon;

(b.) Plough and sow in grass any area not exceeding 3,000 acres;

(c.) Clear of bush or scrub any portion of the run and sow same in grass;

(d.) Surface-sow in grass any portion of the run.

On expiry of license the value of licensee’s improvements will be protected in accordance with the law.

12. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated. Full particulars may be obtained at this office on application.

Possession will be given immediately on approval of application.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.