Nov. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3225

5. No transfer, sublease, subdivision, or mortgage allowed
   without the consent of the Board.
6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be
   paid on rent in arrear.
7. Buildings which are or may be erected on the land to be
   kept in good repair and condition.
8. Lessee shall not carry on any offensive trade.
9. Consent of the Land Board to be obtained before erecting
   any buildings or effecting any other improvements, and before
   alterations, either to existing buildings or to those that may
   hereafter be erected.
10. Lessee to pay all rates and assessments.
11. Buildings to be insured by lessee in name of the Com-
    missioner of Crown Lands.
12. Lease shall be liable to forfeiture if conditions not
    complied with.
    The reserves are described for the general information of
    intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to
    make a personal inspection, as the Department is not re-
    sponsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.
    Full particulars may be obtained at this office.
    VINCENT I. BLAKE,
    Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Marlborough Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 9th November, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small
grazing-run is open for selection in terms of the Land
Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District
Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on
Thursday, the 10th day of December, 1925.
The valuation for improvements and one-half year's rent
must be paid on the fall of the hammer.
Conditions of lease and full particulars can be obtained
on application to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blen-
heim.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.-NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.
Sounds County.-Orieri Survey District.
SMALL Grazing-run 114, Block VIII ; Area, 873 acres;
annual rent, £8 3s. 8d.
Weighted with £600, valuation for improvements, consisting
of five-roomed dwelling, wash-house, and water-supply;
cow-shed and yards; fencing, felling, and grassing.
Broken pastoral country, consisting of poor-quality clay
hills; 250 acres felled and grassed, balance in bush, princi-
pally birch. The property is well watered. Situated about
fourteen miles from Havelock, by water.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.
Small Grazing-run.

1. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.
2. Terms of lease : twenty-one years, with right of renewal;
   or in the event of subdivision into allotments, right to a lease
   of one allotment, compensation for loss of right to new lease
   of other allotments, and valuation for improvements.
3. Rent commences from date of lease, and is payable
   half-yearly, in advance, on 1st March and 1st September in
   each year.
4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applica-
   tions, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 ls. (lease
   fee), and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken period
   between date of lease and 1st March or 1st September following
   is also payable.
5. 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.
6. Improvements.-Lessee is required to improve the run
   within one year to the value of one year's rental; within two
   years to the value of two year's rental, and within six years
   to the value of four years' rental. In addition to the fore-
   going, on bush land, improvements are also to be effected
   within six years to the value of 10s. per acre for every acre of
   first-class land, and 5s. per acre for every acre of second-class
   land. Any money paid as valuation for improvements will
   be allowed as substantial improvements upon the land.
7. On expiry of term of lease, lessee's improvements will
   be valued and protected.
8. Residence must commence within three years in the case
   of bush land or swamp land, and within one year in the case
   of open or partly open land, and be continuous until the

expiration of the lease. Under certain conditions personal
residence may be dispensed with after ten years.
9. Roads may be taken without payment of compensa-
tion.
10. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
Full particulars may be obtained at this office.
Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1926.

J. STEVENSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.
State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 12th November, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the
purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will
close at the office of the State Forest Service, Invercargill,
at 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 16th December, 1925.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—OTAGO LAND
DISTRICT.
ALL the milling-timber on that parcel of land (known as
Sawmill Area No. 25), containing approximately 168 acres,
situated in Block I, Dart Survey District (State Forest
No. 29).
The total estimated quantity of timber in superficial feet
is 757,250, being red-beech, 295,800; silver-beech, 388,870;
mountain-beech, 72,580.
Upset price, £617.
Ground rent, £8 8s. per annum.
Time for removal of timber: Two years and a half.
The timber is close to Sylvan Lake, north of Kinloch at the
head of Lake Wakatipu.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. A marked cheque for one-fourth of the purchase-money,
   together with half-year's ground rent and £1 Is. license fee,
   plus exchange, must accompany the tender, and the balance
   be paid by three equal quarterly instalments, the first of which
   shall be paid six months after the date of sale.
2. In addition the successful tenderer shall continue to
   pay such ground rent half-yearly in advance during the
   currency of the license.
3. All instalment-payments shall be secured by “on
   demand” promissory notes made and endorsed to the satis-
   faction of the Commissioner of State Forests, and interest
   at the rate of 1 per cent. over current bank rates will be
   charged on all notes overdue from the date of maturity to
   the date of payment.
4. The right to cut and remove the timber will be sold in
   accordance with the provisions of the Forests Act, 1921–22,
   the regulations in force thereunder, and these conditions.
5. The attention of all tenderers is drawn to the fact that
   the local controlling body may require the successful tenderer
   to pay any claims or charges which may be made by that
   body for the maintenance of the road over which the timber
   may be transported, and before sawmill license is issued a
   letter indicating that satisfactory arrangements have been
   made in this connection must be produced to the undersigned.
6. Intending tenderers are expected to visit the locality
   and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters
   relative to the sale.
7. Each tenderer must state the total price that he is pre-
   pared to pay for each species. The highest or any tender will
   not necessarily be accepted, and the timber described is sub-
   mitted for sale subject to the final acceptance of the tender
   by the Commissioner of State Forests.
8. The right is reserved to the Commissioner of State
   Forests to withdraw from sale any or all of the said timber
   either before or after the closing date for receipt of tenders.
9. If no tender is accepted for the timber herein mentioned
   it will remain open for application at the upset price until
   further notice.
10. Tenders should be on the special form obtainable from
    any office of the State Forest Service, and should be enclosed
    in envelopes addressed “Conservator of Forests, Invercargill,”
    and endorsed “Tender for Timber.”
    The conditions which will be inserted in the license to be
    issued to the purchaser, and further particulars, may be
    obtained on application to the undersigned or to the Director
    of Forestry, Wellington.

D. MACPHERSON, Conservator of Forests.