APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1245

5. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the lease without the consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.
6. 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.
7. Tenders to be indorsed “Lease of Reserve, Whitianga,” and to be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.
8. The lease to be held generally in terms of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.
9. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Putaruru Village, Selwyn Settlement, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 7th March, 1912.

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 22nd day of April, 1912, 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 District Lands Office, Auckland, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 25th day of April, 1912, 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 at the District Lands Office, Auckland, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 25th day of April, 1912, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—MATAMATA COUNTY.—PUTARURU VILLAGE.—SELWYN SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Altitude, about 525 ft. above sea-level. Level land, in native grass. Soil of a light sandy nature. Situated about 20 chains from Pataruru Railway-station by good road.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District to be disposed of under Section 128 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 12th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 9, Block I, Maungamangero Survey District, containing 31 acres 2 roods 20 perches, will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land under section 128 of the Land Act, 1908, on or after Wednesday, the 15th day of May, 1912.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 27th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Sections 10A, and 11, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 47, 48, and 49, Block XXIV, Invercargill Hundred, Southland Land District, are open for sale or selection under the said Act; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 22nd day of May, 1912.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District to be disposed of under Section 131 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 12th February, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that an area of Crown land adjoining Section 55, Maramarua Parish, and containing about 10 acres, will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land, under section 131 of the Land Act, 1908, on or after Wednesday, the 15th day of May, 1912.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Nelson, 11th March, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for lease by public auction for a term of twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years, at the District Lands Office, Nelson, at 11 o’clock a.m., on Wednesday, the 8th day of May, 1912, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

Varies from flat to undulating. The land is of good quality, covered with light bush, principally birch, and is well suited for pastoral purposes. Altitude, from 600 ft. to 1,300 ft. Is well watered. Access from Murchison by a good dray-road, a distance of about eighteen miles, which will be considerably decreased when the Doughboy Creek Road is completed.

Waimea County.—Gordon Survey District.

| 24 | II | 239 2 0 | 3 10 0 |

This section has a frontage to the main road leading from Belgrave to Kohatu, and is about three miles distant from the first-mentioned place. The Nelson–Tadmor Railway line runs along part of the section’s southern boundary. All the section is steep hillside, and covered with fern and manuka, the soil being of poor quality.

Murchison County.—Matiri Survey District.

| 10 | VIII | 121 0 0 | 3 0 0 |

All covered with light bush, principally birch of no commercial value. The land is of fair quality, and varies from flat to undulating and steep; well suited for pastoral purposes. Distant about three miles and a half by formed dray-road up Two-mile Creek and Maggie’s Creek from the main Nelson–Westport Road near Owen Junction.

| 25 | VIII | 76 1 26 | 4 0 0 |

Weighted with £153 for improvements.

All flat land of good quality, and well suited for agricultural and pastoral purposes; the bush has all been felled, and the land sown in grass. Access by a formed dray-road up the Owen Valley, and distant about a mile and three-quarters from the main Nelson–Westport Road.

Buller County.—Town of Westport.

| 88 | .. | 0 1 20 | 12 0 0 |

Suitable for building purposes.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Timaru Settlement, Canterbury Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Christchurch, 5th March, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease; and applications will be received at this office and the local Lands Office, Timaru, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 15th day of April, 1912, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.