Mar. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 373

Lands in Westland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 22nd March, 1943.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and license of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Westland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provision of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

(L. and S. 22/950/7.)

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister of Lands.

Reserves in Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 3rd March, 1943.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the Inangahua Junction Hall at 2 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 18th May, 1943, under the provisions of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Inangahua Junction Accommodation Reserve.

PART Section 28, Square 134, Block V, Inangahua Survey District : Area, 7 acres 3 roods 14·3 perches. Upset annual rental, £10. Weighted with £1,920 for improvements, consisting of 40 chains fencing, stumping, clearing, and grassing, and the following buildings : Accommodation-house of eleven rooms, with storeroom and dairy, annexe of five bedrooms, dwelling (almost new), storeroom (new), hall (48 ft. by 26 ft.), cow-shed, and fowlhouse.

Situated at Inangahua Junction, about twenty-one miles from Reefton, on the main road from Nelson to the West Coast. The land is all in grass.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Saleyards-site (Part Inangahua Junction Accommodation Reserve).

PART Section 28, Square 134, Block V, Inangahua Survey District : Area, 3 roods 23·5 perches. Upset annual rental, £10. Weighted with £100 for improvements, consisting of clearing, grassing, draining, filling, and metalling. Situated at Inangahua Junction, adjoining the Inangahua Junction Hotel, on the main West Coast road.

Abstract of Conditions of Lease.

(1) The highest bidder shall be the purchaser, and shall deposit one half-year’s rent, £1 1s. (lease fee), and (if he is a person other than the person entitled to receive payment for the improvements) valuation for improvements in cash on the fall of the hammer.

(2) Term of lease : Fourteen years from 1st July, 1943, but in the event of the land being required for public purposes the lessor shall have the right to determine the lease at any time on giving to the lessee twelve months’ notice in writing of the intention in that behalf.

(3) Lessee shall obtain the prior consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson, before effecting improvements. Any improvements effected without such prior consent shall not be protected to the lessee under the next succeeding clause.

(4) Lease shall not contain a right of renewal nor provide compensation for improvements, but in the event of the land being again leased on the termination of the present lease the incoming tenant shall pay to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the benefit of the outgoing lessee the then value of all substantial improvements paid for or which may have been effected by the lessee with the consent of the said Commissioner. Such value shall be determined by agreement between the outgoing lessee and the Commissioner, or, in the event of dispute, by arbitration under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1908.

(5) The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st days of January and July in each and every year.

(6) The lessee shall not transfer, sublet, or otherwise dispose of the demised land without the prior written consent of the said Commissioner.

(7) The Commissioner of Crown Lands, or his authorized agent, shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress.

(8) The lessee shall clear and keep clear the land from all noxious weeds.

(9) The lessee shall pay all rates, taxes, and other assessments accruing on the said land.

(10) The lessee shall not engage in any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade.

(11) The lessee to maintain all buildings, fences, &c., in good substantial repair to the satisfaction of the said Commissioner.

(12) The accommodation-house described in the First Schedule hereto shall be kept open as a place of public entertainment for the use of travellers, for whose exclusive use suitable accommodation and provisions shall be provided at the following rates, and for whose horses and cattle a sufficient supply of good sound oats and hay shall be provided at rates mentioned below.

Accommodation must also be provided for travelling stock at the rates mentioned hereunder.

Charges for accommodation in respect of the land described in the First Schedule hereto :—

Meals, each, not exceeding 2s. 6d.
Beds, each, not exceeding 2s. 6d.
Horse feed with oats, not exceeding 2s. 6d.
Cattle, excluding artificial feed, 3d. per head per night.
Sheep, 1d. per head per night.

(13) Lease shall be liable to termination if the lessee fails to fulfil any of the conditions of the lease, whether expressed or implied, within thirty days after the date on which the same should be fulfilled.

Further particulars may be obtained at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson.

P. R. WILKINSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/2881 ; Res. 255 and 256.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 24th March, 1943.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the sale of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Palmerston North, at 3 o’clock on Friday, the 9th day of April, 1943.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST CONSERVANCY.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing approximately 245 acres, known as Lot 11, Block XI, Waro Survey District, State Forest 55, about sixteen miles from Ohura Railway-station.

The estimated quantity of milling-timber in cubic feet is 180,900, or in board feet 1,253,000, made up as follows :—

Upset price : £2,010.
Time for removal : Two years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fifth of the tender, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in fifteen equal monthly instalments, the first of which shall be paid one month after the date of sale and the others at monthly intervals thereafter.

Terms and Conditions.

1. All instalment-payments shall be secured by “on demand” promissory notes made and endorsed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of State Forests, and interest at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum in excess of current bank overdraft rates will be charged on all notes overdue from the date of maturity to the date of payment.

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