SEPT. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2733

3. The lease will be for a term of fourteen years from the 1st January, 1912, but subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st January and 1st July in each year, free from all deductions whatsoever.

5. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the lease without consent.

6. The lessee shall have no right to compensation, either for improvements he has put on the land, or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause; but he may, on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease, remove all buildings and fences erected by him, but not otherwise.

7. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable dispatch remove, or cause to be removed, all noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lease shall 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.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 4th September, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or selection; and applications will be received at this office and at the local Lands Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 7th day of December, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Ngatapa Settlement, Hawke’s Bay Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Napier, 4th September, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office and the local Lands Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 13th day of October, 1911, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the local Lands Office, Gisborne, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Monday, the 16th day of October, 1911, to answer any questions the Land Board may ask, but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of the district in which he resides.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held on Monday, the 16th October, 1911, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., at the local Lands Office, Gisborne.

Preference will be given to landless applicants, and the decision of the Land Board as to which of the applicants are landless shall be final and conclusive.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.—WAIKOHU SURVEY DISTRICT.—NGATAPA SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £3 17s. 6d., valuation for 17 chains fencing (four posts, six and seven wires).

Agricultural land, comprising flat and low downs. Good soil, on clay subsoil; well grassed. Distant about seventeen miles and a half from Gisborne by coach-road.

C. R. POLLEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland Land District open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 18th July, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 24th day of October, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under Section 129 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 27th June, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under section 129 of the said Act on or after Friday, the 29th day of September, 1911.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

An estimated area of 1 acre of unsurveyed land on the beach reserve fronting Section 48, Block VIII, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.