JULY 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2179
SCHEDULE.
ASHWICK SETTLEMENT.
Mackenzie County.—Opuha Survey District.
SECTION 6, Block XIII: Area, 752 acres; capital value,
£6,000; half-yearly rental, £150.
Situated seven miles from Fairlie Railway-station, one
mile from Kimbell School. Sheep-grazing land. About
300 acres flat, balance ranging to 1,900 ft.; 440 acres tussock,
9 acres good pasture, balance needs renewing. Should carry
700 ewes and a few cattle. Turnips can be grown on 250
acres and oats on 100 acres. Subdivided into twelve paddocks,
Improvements consist of dwelling, £300; hut, £35; out-
buildings £170; 700 chains fencing, £325; planting, £25;
grassing, £65; other improvements, £20: total, £940. Of
these, fencing (£80), is included in the capital value of the
land; £120 (balance owing on buildings under the forfeited
lease) is to be repaid by twenty half-yearly instalments of
£7 15s. 5d.; the balance of £740 is to be paid in cash.
ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.
Settlement Land.

1. Term of lease: thirty-three years, with a perpetual
   right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three
   years, and a right to acquire the freehold.
2. Rental: 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value,
   payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each
   year.
3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.
4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory declaration, and, on being declared successful deposit £1 1s.
   (lease fee), and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken
   period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July
   following is also payable.
5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be
   simultaneous.
6. Order of selection is decided by ballot, preference being
   given to discharged soldiers, married applicants with children
   dependent on them, or who have been twice unsuccessful
   at former ballots.
7. No person may hold more than one allotment.
8. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days
   after being notified that it is ready for signature.
9. A renewable lease is registered under the Land Transfer
   Act, 1908.
10. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
11. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of
    lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then
    only with permission.
12. Allotment to be improved as provided by Land for
    Settlements Regulations.
13. Lessee has no right to minerals, without license; but
    he may use on the land any materials for any agricultural,
    pastoral, household, roadmaking, or building purpose.
14. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
    Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner
    of Crown Lands, Christchurch.
    W. STEWART,
    Commissioner of Crown Lands.
    Settlement Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.
    District Lands and Survey Office,
    Blenheim, 20th July, 1926.
    NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
    is open for selection on renewable lease under the
    Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925,
    and applications will be received at the District Lands and
    Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday,
    10th August, 1926.
    Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board
    for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office,
    Blenheim, at 10.30 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, 12th August,
    1926; but if any applicant so desires he may be examined
    by the Land Board of any other district.
    The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination
    of applicants.
    Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants
    who have one or more children dependent on them, to land-
    less applicants who within two years immediately preceding
    date of ballot have applied for land at least twice unsuccess-
    fully, to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as
    members of the Expeditionary Force, and to persons engaged
    on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with
    the late war if such persons immediately prior to the war
    were bona fide residents of New Zealand.
    SCHEDULE.
    MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
    Kaikoura County. — Greenburn Survey District. — Fernleigh
    Settlement.
    SECTION 5s, Block II : Area, 118 acres 3 roods ; capital
    value, £2,610 ; half-yearly rent, £65 5s. 5d.
    Weighted with £125 15s., valuation for improvements,
    consisting of whare (10 ft. by 14 ft.), four-bail cow-shed
    with engine-room and yard, fencing, and well-sinking, payable
    in cash.
    Fernleigh Settlement is situated on main Kaikoura-Waiau
    Road, distant about six miles and a half from Kaikoura town
    and port; about four miles from Kaikoura Suburban Dairy
    Factory and about two miles from school, all by good metalled
    roads. The land is eminently suited to dairying, being
    partly flat and partly hill. Altitude from 200 ft. to 1,000 ft.
    above sea-level.
    Section 5s: About half flat, half hills. Small area of stony
    land and flat, balance on flat recently laid down in English
    rye-grass, part wet. Can be improved by further draining.
    Hills hard, in native grass and manuka-scrub.
    Boundary and internal fences, valued at £75, are included
    in the capital value.
    SPECIAL CONDITIONS.
15. The drains adjacent to the section boundaries are
    deemed to be party drains, and the adjoining lessees are
    jointly held responsible for the cleaning, repairing, and
    otherwise maintaining same in a due state of efficiency.
16. The right is reserved to any lessee to construct and
    connect subsidiary or cross drains to the main drains adjacent
    to his section boundary, notwithstanding the fact that such
    main drains may not be on his section, but no such right
    shall be exercised without the consent of the Commissioner
    of Crown Lands being first obtained.
17. Lessees shall cleanse, repair, and keep in a due state of
    efficiency all open, piped, or covered drains within their
    respective sections.
18. Lessees shall clean, repair, and keep in a due state of
    efficiency the portions of the Eweime Stream within their
    respective sections.
19. Lessees shall not cut down or remove any of the exotic
    trees growing on the land demised without first obtaining
    consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands in writing.
20. In the event of the failure of the lessees to clean, repair,
    or keep in a state of efficiency any drain or stream, the Commissioner may enter on the lands and have any necessary
    works done at their expense; any costs to be recoverable
    as a debt due to the Crown.
    ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.
21. Term of lease: thirty-three years, with a perpetual right
    of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years,
    and a right to acquire the freehold.
22. Rent: 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value,
    payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
23. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.
24. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory declaration, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease
    fee) and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken period
    between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is
    also payable.
25. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be
    simultaneous.
26. No person may hold more than one allotment.
27. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days
    after being notified that it is ready for signature.
28. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all
    rates, taxes, and assessments.
29. Improvements: Lessee is required to improve the land
    within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price;
    within two years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the
    price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of
    another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing,
    and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to
    the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, 10s. for
    every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every acre of
    third-class land.
30. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of
    lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then
    only with permission.