June 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1753

£375, repayable in cash or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £18 18s. 9d. Other improvements on the various sections go with the land.

Locality and Description.

The Waimana Settlement is pleasantly situated in the Waimana Valley, within convenient distances from the Townships and Harbours of Opotiki, Ohiwa, and Whakatane, and the Village of Taneatua; it has a generous climate and a plentiful rainfall, and is fairly well sheltered from heavy winds.

The present chief access is from Taneatua and Whakatane by a dray-road down the valley of the Waimana, but other roads avoiding the river-crossings are being surveyed both to Taneatua and Ohiwa.

The formation of the land is apparently sedimentary, in places covered with volcanic matter, with occasional pumice. Altitude varies from 140 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level. The flats vary from very rich alluvial deposit on gravel to gravel with a lighter covering. The soil on the hills is of a light loamy character of fair quality, but inferior in places. The rich flats, where tried, have given a prolific yield of maize. Each farm is well watered. The grass on the various parts of the settlement is a good mixture of English grasses, and, generally speaking, is in good heart.

All the fences are of a fairly permanent character.

The areas of the sections are subject to adjustment.

A guide will be available in Waimana to point out the boundaries of the sections.

There is a good accommodation-house adjoining the village.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICES.

Seven Lots at Parengarenga, Mangonui County, in the Parengarenga, Muriwhenua, Hohoura, and Tarawara Survey Districts, for Lease by Public Tender.

THE undermentioned lots at Parengarenga, Mangonui County, will be offered for lease by public tender under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its amendments. Tenders will be received up to 4 p.m. on Friday, the 5th day of July, 1907, and every tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to the President, Tokerau Maori Land Board, Native Land Court Office, Auckland, and marked on the outside as follows: “Tender for Lot No. , as advertised in the newspaper of the day of , 1907.” The term of lease will be for ten years, with the right of renewal for a further term of ten years.

Four Lots comprising the Blocks known as Parengarenga Nos. 3, 4, 5A No. 1, 5A No. 2, 5A No. 3, 5B No. 1, 5B No. 2, and 5B No. 3.

Three Lots comprising the Blocks known as Pakohu Nos. 1, 2B No. 1, 2B No. 2, 3A, 3B, and 5.

LEASES, PARENGARENGA AND PAKOHU BLOCKS.

Locality and Description.

The leases are situated around Parengarenga Harbour, at the northern extremity of the Auckland Land District, in Parengarenga, Muriwhenua, Hohoura West, and Tarawara Survey Districts. Access from Awanui is by track to the west coast, and along the beach to Hukatere, thence through Hohoura to Parenga (about the middle of the leases), a total distance of about fifty-five miles. There is a fortnightly steamer service from Auckland, 240 miles distant. The altitude of the land is generally from sea-level to 430 ft., but rising to 1,060 ft. in the north. About 19,600 acres consists of bare sandhills, about 1,000 acres of bush, and 250 acres of raupo swamp; the balance is undulating land of inferior clay and sandstone, covered with stunted manuka and fern. With exception of the bush land the whole is gum-bearing, but the ground in Runs E, F, and G has been very little worked for gum. The swamps, when drained, are suitable for agricultural purposes, and the land as a whole is suitable for rough runs.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The respective sections will be offered by public tender for lease for pastoral purposes, and with a right to work, win, dig, cut, use, possess, sell, and dispose of kauri-gum or flax in or upon or under the said land, or growing or which may grow on the said land.

2. Each lease will be for a term of ten years, commencing from the 1st day of July, 1907.

3. Every tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to the President, Tokerau Maori Land Board, Native Land Court Office, Auckland, and marked on the outside as follows: “Tender for lease of Lot No. , as advertised in the newspaper of the day of , 19 ,” and shall be accompanied by a statutory declaration in the form or to the effect set forth in Form K in the Schedule hereto.

4. If any person desires tender for more than one lot, a separate tender for each such lot must be made, and separate declarations as required by the last preceding rule. And each such tender must be accompanied by six months’ rent and £3 3s., also stamp duty and registration fee.

5. Tenders will be received up to 4 p.m. on the 5th day of July, 1907, and all tenders will be opened simultaneously by the Board on the 6th day of July, 1907, at 11 a.m.

Every tender shall be deemed to be informal and incapable of being accepted where the rental tendered is less than the upset rental fixed as aforesaid.

6. The highest tenderer, if his tender shall equal or exceed the upset rental, shall be declared the lessee and be entitled to possession of the lands so soon as he has duly executed a lease thereof, and has complied with all other conditions lawfully prescribed in that behalf. But the Board reserves to itself the right to call upon him, if it thinks necessary, to enter into a bond for an amount to be fixed by the Board, and to furnish two sureties, to be approved by the Board, for the due fulfilment of the terms and conditions of the lease.

7. If the rent offered by two or more persons is the same amount, and is higher than that offered by any other tenderers, then the Board shall, after opening all the tenders, decide by lot, in such manner as it shall think fit, which of such two or more persons shall be declared the lessee.

8. The deposits and fees paid by the unsuccessful tenderers for any lease shall be returned to them by the Board immediately after any tender for such lease has been accepted.

9. When the Board shall declare any person to be the lessee of any block it shall forthwith notify the same to such person by registered letter, addressed to such person at the address given in the tender, and shall in such notice require such person, within thirty days after such notice, to execute the lease in triplicate. If two or more persons jointly tender, the notice shall be posted to each of such persons. Such notice shall be in the Form L in the Schedule to the regulations under the Act, or to the effect thereof.

10. If any person who has been declared a lessee shall fail to execute his lease within thirty days after being required by notice so to do, then his deposit and the above-mentioned sum of £3 3s. shall be absolutely forfeited to the Board, and the right of such person to obtain such lease shall absolutely cease and determine.

Where any lessee shall forfeit his right to a lease as aforesaid, and as often as such a case shall occur from time to time until the land be leased, or until there be a failure of tenderers whose tenders are formal, the Board may, at any time within seven days from such forfeiture, declare the next highest tenderer for the same lease whose tender is not informal to be the lessee, or, if the rent offered by two or more persons is the same amount, and is higher than the rent offered by any other tenderer save the one who has so forfeited his right to a lease as aforesaid, may decide by lot which of such other persons shall be the lessee. Every person declared a lessee under this section shall, upon his paying the deposit and fees as aforesaid, be declared to have become the lessee on the day of the opening of the tenders as if he had been so declared on such day.