APRIL 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 949

Officiating Ministers for 1906.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1906.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Meredith Soule.

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend Percy Reginald Paris.

Baptists.
The Reverend Albert Whalley.

Unitarian Free Church.
The Reverend William Tudor Jones.

Erratum.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 21, of the 22nd March, 1906, page 851, list of Officiating Ministers for 1906, Notice No. 10, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, for “Mr. Edward Bishop” read “Mr. Ebenezer Bishop.”

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Reserve in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Blenheim, 2nd April, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for a lease of the undermentioned reserve, under “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 30th day of May, 1906.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 2, Block XVIII, Cape Campbell, and Section 1, Block X, Whernside Survey Districts: Area, 160 acres; upset annual rental, £5; term, fourteen years.

Description and Locality of Reserve.

About ½ acre ngaio bush; 80 acres tussock, fern, and flax; balance sandhills; well watered. About forty miles, by coach-road, from Blenheim.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blenheim.

2. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.

3. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, but the land will be weighted with the value of all improvements existing at the expiration of the lease, to be paid by the incoming lessee, should another person other than the present lessee obtain possession of the land; improvements to be first sanctioned by the Land Board in writing.

4. The lease shall be for the term of fourteen years.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

6. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and he shall prevent their increase or spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, or sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

10. The lessee shall within nine months of the date of the acceptance of his tender erect a suitable accommodation-house upon the reserve, which shall be kept open as a place of public entertainment for the use of travellers, and he shall provide at least the following accommodation for the exclusive use of travellers: One sitting-room, one dining-room, one small room for telephone, and three good bed-rooms, provided with clean and suitable bedding. The plan of the house to be first submitted to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for his approval.

11. The lessee shall provide all travellers with accommodation at the following charges: Meals and beds not exceeding 1s. 6d. each.

12. The lessee shall provide a paddock for horses, with proper shelter, and supply or arrange with the adjoining coach stables that horses be supplied with accommodation at a charge not to exceed 1s. 6d. for each horse-feed, and paddocking at a price not exceeding 1s. per night.

HENRY TRENT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Longbush and Tablelands Settlements, Wellington Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 30th day of May, 1906, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

If more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

LONGBUSH SETTLEMENT.—WAIRARAPA SOUTH COUNTY.—HUANGARUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Dairy Farm.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
3 | VIII | 289 0 35 | 8 3·6 | { 60 0 3
{ *21 19 4

This section is situated in the Longbush Settlement, about seven miles from Gladstone by a good dray-road. It comprises flat and easy sloping land; the greater portion is grassed, the remainder is covered with patches of light bush and scrub; about one-half the area is ploughable. The soil is of a fair quality, resting on a papa formation. The section is well watered by the Wangaehu Stream, &c. The elevation ranges from about 360 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. The improvements which are included in the price of the land comprise about 77 acres ploughed (now covered with weeds, &c.), 70 chains small drains, 202 acres grassed, 202 chains subdivisional fences, orchard and trees, fowlhouse, piggeries, and an old whare, the whole valued at £439 5s. The improvements which do not go with the land are cottage of seven rooms, shingle roof; dairy and wash-houses; woolshed, built of totara, with iron roof; stable (new), iron roof, stalls, feed-room, loft, &c.; sheep yards and dip. Total value of these improvements is £435, repayable by the lessee in fourteen years.

N.B.—An area of 5 perches is reserved from this section for Maori graves, and an undefined right-of-way is reserved thereto. The right is reserved to the lessees of Sections 1 and 2, Block VIII, Huangarua Survey District, to drain their swamp land through Section 3, Block VIII, Huangarua, and in the event of the lessees of these sections being unable to agree as to the route of said drain-connection the matter shall be referred to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, whose decision shall be final and binding on all parties.

TABLELANDS SETTLEMENT.—FEATHERSTON COUNTY.—HUANGARUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Farm of Mixed Agricultural and Pastoral Land.

6 | XI | 631 2 0 | 6 3·1 | { 98 16 1
{ +47 16 6

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £435, repayable in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £21 19s. 4d. Total half-yearly payment, £81 19s. 7d.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £947 repayable in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £47 16s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment, £146 12s. 7d.