Aug. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2739

Lands in Taranaki Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 25th August, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses over the undermentioned sections having been forfeited by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands

Education Reserves in Marlborough Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 27th August, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for lease by public auction for terms of twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years, at the Courthouse, Picton, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the twenty-ninth day of October, 1913, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

Town of Kaikoura.

| 96 | 0 1 35 | 3 15 0 |

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Town of Picton.

Section 601: Good locality; the creek intersecting the section floods it at times. Section 613: Good locality; excellent building-site; dry and level. Sections 618, 619: Good residential site. Section 968: Sloping hillside, in grass. Section 987: Nearly all hill, in grass. Section 1016: Good site for residence or garden, level and dry, sunny aspect. Section 1017: First-class building-site, level and dry, sunny aspect.

Town of Kaikoura.

Section 96: Adjacent to wharf; flat, with shingly soil; in grass.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
2. Term of lease is twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years.
3. Rent of renewal lease to be fixed by arbitration. If lessee does not desire new lease at end of any term, land to be leased by auction. The incoming lessee to pay the value of the improvements, which is to be handed over to the outgoing lessee.
4. No transfer or sublease allowed without consent of Land Board.
5. Interest at rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrears.
6. Consent of Land Board to be obtained before erecting any building or cutting up or subdividing the allotments.
7. Lease will be registered under the Land Transfer Act.
8. Buildings on land to be insured.
9. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
10. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs in Hawke’s Bay Land District open for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 26th August, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs are open for lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office, and at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 12th November, 1913.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIROA COUNTY.—WAIAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Pastoral Land.

DESCRIPTIONS OF RUNS.

Run 108.—Hilly broken country, ranging from 1,500 ft. to 3,500 ft. above sea-level. Soil of a light pumiceous nature, on a sandstone formation; heavily timbered, the bush being principally black and silver birch, with a fair sprinkling of rimu; well watered. Distant thirty-four miles from Wairoa—twenty-nine miles by formed dray-road, and five miles by bridle-track to be formed.

Run 109.—Covered with heavy forest, principally tawa, rimu, matai, black and silver birch. About 100 acres flat and undulating land; remainder varying from easy slopes to broken hilly country. Soil generally is of a pumiceous nature, but the run contains some very fair land; watered by several fine streams. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 3,500 ft. above sea-level. Distant thirty-three miles and a half from Wairoa by dray-road and half a mile by bridle-track to be formed.

R. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 26th August, 1913.

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 Thursday, the 4th day of December, 1913.