MAY 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 777

Forest Sections near Rotorua for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th March, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the sections specified in the
Schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public
auction, at this office, on Thursday, the 25th July, 1895, at
11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARAEROA-OTUROA BLOCK, THERMAL SPRINGS DISTRICT.

These sections are nearly all covered with mixed forest;
soil light, but good. They are not well watered, owing to
the porous nature of the soil.

CONDITIONS OF LEASING.

1. Term of lease, twenty-one years from the 1st day of
   September, 1895.

2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance; the first of such
   half-yearly payments to be made at the close of sale, and all
   future payments to be made to the officer appointed to
   receive the same within sixty days from the days on which
   they become due, and in default thereof the lease to be for-
   feited.

3. The lessee shall, within one year from the date of lease,
   fell, burn, and sow with grass an area equal to 5 per cent.
   of the land comprised therein; within two years a further
   5 per cent. of the area; within three years a further 5 per
   cent. of the area; within six years an amount equal to
   one-quarter of the total area; and at the end of the term an
   area equal to one-half of the total area.

4. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, &c.

5. No transfers or assignments to be permitted without
   the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

6. No valuation for improvements will be paid by the
   Crown, but the lease of the holdings will, a few months
   before the end of the term, be submitted to auction again for
   a further period of twenty-one years, loaded with the value
   of the improvements in favour of the lessee. The incoming
   tenant to pay the value of the improvements, but if there be
   no bid for the lease then the land, with the improvements,
   will revert to the outgoing tenant at the same rent paid
   under the expiring lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve at Maketu for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 11th April, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the lease for the term specified
of the under-mentioned reserve will be offered at public
auction, at the Land Office, Tauranga, on Wednesday, the
5th day of June proximo, at 11 a.m.

Maketu Survey District (Tauranga County), Block II.,
Section 22A: Area, 26 acres 1 rood 20 perches; upset annual
rent, £5; subject to £350 for flax-mill.

Term of lease, fourteen years, without right of renewal.
No compensation for improvements during either the cur-
rency or at the termination of the lease. Rent payable
half-yearly in advance.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894."

WHEREAS Thomas Charles Williamson, James Douglas
Williamson, and Sydney Williamson, of Poverty Bay
and Auckland, persons claiming to have purchased from
certain of the Native owners shares or interests in the
Wharekopae No. 2 Block, and to have been prior to the date
of the passing of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," in
negotiation for the purchase or lease of certain other shares
or interests therein, have notified such claim to the Chief
Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of
Crown Lands for the Napier District, and have requested
that an inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held
as provided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas
the Chief Judge has referred the said claim to a Judge
of the Native Land Court for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby
give notice that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land
Court House, Gisborne, on the 20th day of May, 1895, at
10 a.m.

Dated at Gisborne, this 30th day of April, 1895.
JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894."

WHEREAS Michael O'Connor and John Carmody, of
Palmerston North, persons claiming to have leased
from certain of the Native owners shares or interests in
the Lower Aorangi No. 3G Block, and to have been prior
to the date of the passing of "The Native Land Court
Act, 1894," in negotiation for the lease of certain other
shares or interests therein, has notified such claim to
the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the
Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington District,
and has requested that an inquiry into the circumstances
thereof may be held as provided by section 118 of the said
Act: And whereas the Chief Judge has referred the said
claim to a Judge of the Native Land Court, for inquiry as
aforesaid: I hereby give notice that such inquiry will be
held at the Native Land Court House, Levin, on the 22nd
day of May, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1895.
H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894."

WHEREAS Alfred Ross, of Rangitikei, a person claim-
ing to have leased from certain of the Native owners
shares or interests in the Waiorua-Kapiti No. 5 Block,
Section No. 1, and to have been prior to the date of
the passing of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," in
negotiation for the lease of certain other shares or interests
therein, has notified such claim to the Chief Judge of the
Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of Crown
Lands for the Wellington District, and has requested that an
inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held as pro-
vided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas the Chief
Judge has referred the said claim to a Judge of the Native
Land Court, for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby give notice
that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land Court
House, Levin, on the 22nd day of May, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of May, 1895.
H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894."

WHEREAS Alfred Ross, of Rangitikei, and Arthur
Edward Ross, of Kapiti Island, persons claiming to
have leased from certain of the Native owners shares or
interests in the Marae takaroro-Kapiti No. 2 Block, and to
have been prior to the date of the passing of "The Native
Land Court Act, 1894," in negotiation for the lease of certain
other shares or interests therein, have notified such claim
to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the
Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington District,
and have requested that an inquiry into the circumstances
thereof may be held as provided by section 118 of the said
Act: And whereas the Chief Judge has referred the said
claim to a Judge of the Native Land Court, for inquiry
as aforesaid: I hereby give notice that such inquiry will
be held at the Native Land Court House, Levin, on the
22nd day of May, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of May, 1895.
H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.