JUNE 5.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Reserves in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 27th May, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for leases of the undermentioned reserves will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 23rd July, 1913, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF HAWERA.

Lot. Section. Area. Upset Annual Rental. Term.
A. R. P. £ s. d.
16, 17 19 0 2 16 5 0 0 3 years.
28, 29, 30 19 0 2 38 7 0 0 5 ,,
9 37 5 3 32·4 30 0 0 5 ,,

The lots comprise flat land, all in grass.

Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Six months' rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, must accompany each tender.
2. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration is required. Residence is not compulsory. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.
3. Possession will be given on the date of acceptance of tender, except in the case of the southern half of Lot 9, possession of which will be given on 1st October, 1913.
4. The lease of Lots 16 and 17 shall be subject to termination by one month's notice, and the leases of the other lots to twelve months' notice, in the event of the land being required by the Government.
5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.
6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease without consent.
7. The land shall not be cropped nor broken up, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.
8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
9. The lease will be liable to forfeiture if the lessee fails to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.
10. The Post and Telegraph Department reserves the right to store telegraph material on Lots 16 and 17.
11. The lessee of Lot 9 will at all times during the said term keep all boundary-fences, subdivision-fences, hedges, gates, and water-troughs (two) now erected or which may hereafter be erected on the said land or on the boundaries thereof in good repair, order, and condition, and so yield up the same at the expiration or sooner determination of the said term.
12. The lessee of Lot 9 will properly cut and trim at least once in every year all live hedges which may be growing upon the said land, or any of the boundaries thereof, at the proper season so as to prevent seeding or spreading.

Tenders should be addressed “The Commissioner of Crown Lands, New Plymouth,” and marked on the outside “Tender for Reserve.”

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICE.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Wellington.

Registrar's Office, Wellington, 4th June, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Wellington on the 25th day of June, 1913, to hear and determine the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written, in respect of which applications have been received by the Registrar, and all such other matters as may be lawfully brought before it.
[Wellington, 1913-17.]

E. A. WELCH, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATIONS FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIENATIONS.

APPLICATIONS FOR PARTITIONS.