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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

APPLICATIONS FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIENATIONS UNDER SECTION 7 OF “THE MAORI LAND LAWS AMENDMENT ACT, 1908”—continued.

Maori Lands for Lease by Public Tender.

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.

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 the Ohotu Block, recently leased by the Board. Access may be obtained from Ohakune or Karioi Railway-stations on the Main Trunk line. The land is some twelve miles by road from the latter station. The Otiranui Road gives access to No. 2, and thence a right-of-road is reserved through that section to No. 3, to which access will be provided if required. Both sections are classified as second-class land.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

(For Lease for Six Years, without Right of Renewal.)

Block VI, Port Nicholson Survey District.

This section is situated on the Tinakori Hill, at the back of the Orangikaupapa Block, Northlands, and overlooks Thorndon and practically the whole of the City of Wellington. Access is gained from the Orangikaupapa Road. The land is comprised in Land Transfer certificate of title, Volume 20, folio 124.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Otiranui Nos. 2 and 3.

1. Term of lease: Twenty-one years, with right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years.

2. The rental shall not be for less than the given upset rental for the first twenty-one years, and shall be computed at the rate of 5 per cent. on the then unimproved value for each successive term of twenty-one years.

3. Every tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope, addressed to the President, 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 prescribed form.

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.), and an amount sufficient to cover stamp duty and registration fee.

6. 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.

7. Highest tenderer to be declared the lessee, but the Board may decline to accept any tender.

8. Leases to date from 1st January, 1910, but rental will be remitted for period intervening between that date and the date of acceptance of tenders.

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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