Dec. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2905

MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICES.

Sections in the Township of Otorohanga for Lease by Public Auction under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

Office of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa
Maori Land Council,
Otorohanga, 16th November, 1905.

THE undermentioned sections in the Township of Otorohanga will be offered for lease by public auction, at the upset annual rentals and for the terms mentioned in the Schedules A and B hereto, at the Public Hall, Otorohanga, on Thursday, the 21st December, 1905, at 11.30 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE A.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAITOMO COUNTY.—ORAHIRI SURVEY DISTRICT.

Term of lease, twenty-one years, with right of renewals for further terms of twenty-one years.

TOWNSHIP OF OTOROHANGA.

Locality and Description of Township of Otorohanga.

Otorohanga Township is situated within what is known as the King-country, on the North Island Main Trunk Railway line, 114 miles from Auckland and fourteen miles from Te Awamutu. It is the oldest of the European settlements in the King-country, but it is only now that Europeans are able to obtain valid titles to the land there. There is a considerable European and Maori population at Otorohanga at the present time, and it has been known for some years past as a thriving business-place. There is a large area of Crown land in the vicinity, a great deal of which has already been taken up, and as settlement progresses Otorohanga will become a place of considerable importance. There is a daily train service to it from Auckland. There is a sawmill in the township employing a number of workmen both in the mill and in the adjacent bush. There is a Board school, a public hall, a temperance hotel, and a Methodist church in the township, and a creamery within a distance of four miles. There is a graded and formed road from Otorohanga leading to Kihikihi, Te Awamutu, and other parts of Waipa and Waikato Counties. Otorohanga is within easy reach of the celebrated Waitomo Caves, and is the nearest place to them at which proper accommodation for tourists can be obtained. The township is laid out in a pretty valley on the west side of the railway-station site and the railway-line. It is bounded on the south and east by the Waipa River, which has been well stocked with trout. The township is partly on flat and partly on rising ground, thus comprising allotments suitable for both business and residence sites.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The respective lots shall be offered by public auction on the 21st December, 1905.

2. The bidder of the highest rent shall be declared to be the lessee, and, if any dispute arises as to the last or highest bid at any auction for any lot, the lot in dispute shall be put up again at the last preceding bid.

3. The highest bidder for any lot shall, upon the fall of the hammer, pay to the auctioneer the first half-year’s rent in advance by way of deposit, which shall represent the half-year’s rent as from the 1st January, 1906, and shall cover the period between the date of sale and such 1st January, 1906, together with £1 lease fee.

4. The second half-year’s rent shall become payable on the 1st July, 1906, and thenceforth the rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.

5. As soon as may be after the highest bidder is ascertained, a lease will be prepared, for which there will be a charge of £1, to be paid by the lessee. Such lease shall be for the term of twenty-one years, commencing from the 1st January, 1906, and the lessee shall execute the same in triplicate at the office of the Council whenever requested to do so.

6. The lease may provide for renewals from time to time for a period not exceeding twenty-one years at a rent to be fixed by valuation or by arbitration, and it may also provide for payment by the incoming tenant for improvements made by the outgoing tenant, the value of such improvements to be ascertained by arbitration.

7. In cases where any of the allotments are subject to the payment of the value of the improvements by the provisions of an expiring lease or otherwise, the respective amounts thereof shall be specified in the conditions, and such value shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as