2696
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

Monthly Steam Service between Bluff or Invercargill and Cromarty.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1908.

TENDERS will be received by the Chief Postmaster, Invercargill, until Wednesday, 18th proximo, for the performance of a mail steam service, once monthly, between Bluff or Invercargill and Cromarty, for a term of thirteen months from the 1st December, 1908, to the 31st December, 1909.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tenders for Cromarty Mail-service,” and addressed to the Chief Postmaster, Invercargill.

Names, tonnage, and horse-power of steamers proposed to be used to be stated.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. The Postmaster-General will reserve the right to terminate the service on giving one month’s notice in writing.

Forms of tender and terms and conditions of contract may be obtained on application to the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin or Invercargill; or to the Postmaster, Bluff.

D. ROBERSTON,
Secretary.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools under the control of the Education Department, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open on similar conditions to Maori boys whose attendance at any school other than Te Aute and St. Stephen’s during the previous year has been satisfactory. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Native Schools Code, 1908. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 7th and 8th of December, 1908.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 26th of October, 1908.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

W. W. BIRD,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 1st September, 1908.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 19th October, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land is open for sale or selection, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 25th day of January, 1909, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—MANGONUI COUNTY.—TAKAHUE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Altitude, from 50 ft. to 350 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land; about 40 acres mixed forest, comprising taraire, puriri, kohekohe, with dense undergrowth of nikau, supple-jack, and ferns; balance covered with manuka and fern. Soil of fair second-class quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by stream. Situated about four miles from Kaitaia—three miles good road, and one mile pack-track.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Methuen Hamlet, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 19th October, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 21st day of December, 1908, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDEN COUNTY.—TITIRANGI SURVEY DISTRICT.—METHUEN HAMLET.

First-class Land.

Undulating land, partly covered with danthonia grass; loamy soil of medium quality, on clay subsoil; drained by watercourses. Situated about half a mile from Avondale Railway-station by good metalled road.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in the Town of Ohakune, Wellington Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of fourteen years, at the Town Hall, Ohakune, at noon on Saturday, the 5th day of December, 1908, under the provisions of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF OHAKUNE.

A good business-site; all flat open land. Fronting the main road.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A deposit of six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. 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, nor for any other cause.

3. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

4. The lease shall be for the term specified hereon, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

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

6. The lessee will have no right to 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 prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and 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.

8. The lease will 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.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.