JUNE 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2087

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 3,000 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. Every lessee shall, before executing the contract of lease, make and lodge with the Board a declaration of qualification in the prescribed form.
12. A separate declaration, as required by the last preceding condition, must be lodged for each tender.
13. Lessee to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.
14. 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.
15. 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 purposes.
16. 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, or 2s. 6d. on third-class land.
17. On expiry of term of lease lessee’s improvements will be valued and protected.
18. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
19. All leases shall conform to the requirements of the Native Land Act, 1909, 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 Tokerau District Maori Land Board, 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.

WALTER DINNIE,
President.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at New Plymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE RAWSON, of Hawera, Carpenter, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Friday, the 7th day of July, 1911, at 2 o’clock p.m.

C. A. BUDGE,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Hawera, 24th June, 1911.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at New Plymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM MOWBRAY EMMERTON, of Hawera, Cabinetmaker, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Friday, the 7th day of July, 1911, at 11 o’clock a.m.

C. A. BUDGE,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Hawera, 26th June, 1911.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Palmerston North.

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM OLIVER LESTER JARVIS, of Te Rehunga, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Monday, the 3rd day of July, 1911, at 3.30 o’clock p.m.

NORMAN L. GURR,
Official Assignee.

24th June, 1911.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Blenheim.

NOTICE is hereby given that DAVID JOSEPH ELSMORE, of Blenheim, Mechanic, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Tuesday, the 27th day of June, 1911, at 1.30 o’clock.

R. WANDEN,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Blenheim, 19th June, 1911.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Christchurch.

NOTICE is hereby given that HERBERT ARUNDEL GLASSON, of 107 Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch, Traveller, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Wednesday, the 28th day of June, 1911, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

J. EVANS,
Official Assignee.

21st June, 1911.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Dunedin.

NOTICE is hereby given that HARRY LOUIE, of Palmerston South, Fruiterer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, Law Court Buildings, on Tuesday, the 27th day of June, 1911, at 2.30 o’clock.

F. H. MORICE,
Official Assignee.

Dunedin, 20th June, 1911.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Dunedin.

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM ROGERS, of Weston, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at the Courthouse, Oamaru, on Friday, the 30th day of June, 1911, at 11 o’clock a.m.

A. W. WOODWARD,
Deputy Official Assignee.

21st June, 1911.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1908, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

5038. JOHN FRASER and ROBERT FRASER.—Northern portion of Allotment 37, Parish of Hikurangi, containing 76 acres 3 roods 25·9 perches. Unoccupied.

5039. MORGAN BLANDFORD.—Lot 16 of Allotment 7A, Section 36 and Allotment 12, Section 37, City of Auckland, containing 10·2 perches. Occupied by Ellen White.