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4. If any person desires to tender for more than one lot a separate tender for each lot must be made. Each tender must be accompanied by a separate declaration, as required by the last preceding condition.

5. Each tender must be accompanied by six months’ rent, lease fee (£3 3s.), an amount sufficient to cover stamp duty and registration fee, and the value of the improvements (if any).

6. Term of lease commences on the 1st January, 1910. Lessee may enter into possession immediately upon acceptance of tender, and shall be entitled to a rebate of rent for the period from the 1st January to date of acceptance of tender.

7. Rental to be paid half-yearly, in advance, on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

8. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments (land-tax excepted).

9. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or mortgage without the prior consent of the Board. Transfer not allowed until lessee has been one year in possession.

10. Including all other land already owned, held, or occupied under a tenure of more than one year’s duration, no person may hold more than 5,000 acres; every acre of first-class land being reckoned as 7½ acres, and every acre of second-class land being reckoned as 2½ acres.

11. Lessee to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.

12. Residence to commence within four years in bush lands or swamp lands, and within one year in open or partly open lands, and to be continuous for six years.

13. Lessee has no right to minerals without license, but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, road-making, or building purpose.

14. Every lessee shall bring into cultivation,——
    (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;
    (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;
    (c.) Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him;
    and shall, within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character (as defined by “The Land Act, 1908”) on first-class land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land, and on second-class land to an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land: Provided that in no case shall the additional improvements required on second-class land be more than 10s. per acre.

15. On expiry of term of lease lessee’s improvements will be valued and protected.

16. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

17. All leases shall conform to the requirements of “The Native Land Settlement Act, 1907,” and the regulations made thereunder; and the lessees shall be deemed to be acquainted with the provisions thereof, and to be bound thereby as effectually as if such provisions were embodied herein.

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS.

The lands are described for the general information of intending selectors, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Board is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Tenders must be sent to the office of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, at Auckland, and must be made on the proper forms, to be obtained at the office of the Board and at the post-offices in the locality of the land to be offered.

Copies of the regulations and full particulars may be obtained at the Board’s office.

A. G. HOLLAND,
President.

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Lands for Sale by Public Tender in the Rakautatahi Block, 1,984 Acres and 12 Perches.

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Office of the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board,
Wellington, 7th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of “The Native Land Settlement Act, 1907,” and the regulations thereunder, that written tenders will be received at the office of the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, Wellington, up to 10 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 18th March, 1910, for the purchase, in one lot, of the lands mentioned hereunder.

SCHEDULE.

PART RAKAUTATAHI NO. 1L BLOCK.—BLOCKS I, II, and III, NORSEWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.—HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

To be submitted for sale in one lot.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

The land is situated about five miles from Norsewood, which township is distant four miles from Ormondville, on the Wellington-Napier Railway line. Section 5 consists of bush land, which has been swept by fire. The soil on one-half of this section is good, while the balance is of a light stony nature. Section 7 is all bush land, one-third of which has been swept by fire. Part of this section is rough and broken, and runs to an elevation of over 2,000 ft. The soil is light and stony.

The lands are described for the general information of selectors, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Board is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. Land is to be sold subject to a reserve price of £1,825.

2. Highest tenderer to be declared the purchaser, but the Board reserves the right to refuse any tender.

3. Ten per cent. of price offered to be lodged with tender, together with a sum of £5 5s. for costs, and a declaration as required by section 15 of “The Native Land Settlement Act, 1907.” Balance of purchase-money to be paid by twenty half-yearly instalments, the first of such instalments being payable on the 1st July, 1910.

4. The purchaser to pay interest on unpaid purchase-money at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Interest to be payable on the 1st January and the 1st July of each year, and to date from the signing of contract of sale.

5. Residence and improvements to conform with sections 159 to 165 of “The Land Act, 1908,” so far as applicable, but residence will not be required until after four years.

6. After five years the purchaser may pay off balance of purchase-money and obtain a transfer of the land.

7. Land to be sold subject to the provisions of “The Native Land Settlement Act, 1907,” and the regulations made thereunder.

THOS. W. FISHER,
President.

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Maori Lands for Lease by Public Tender.

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Office of the Aotea District Maori Land Board,
Wanganui, 8th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the office of the Aotea District Maori Land Board, Wanganui, up to 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 15th March, 1910, for leases of the undermentioned lands under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its amendments, and the regulations made thereunder.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

(For Lease for Twenty-one Years, with Right of Renewal for Further Term of Twenty-one Years.)

Otiranui Nos. 2 and 3 Blocks.—Block XII, Makotuku Survey District.

The land is good pastoral country, on a papa and sandstone formation, and lies towards the sun. There is a considerable amount of timber growing on No. 3. The sections adjoin