Oct. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3341

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909
REGULATION No. 48.
THE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Waikawa No. 3 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kaha on Thursday, the 27th day of November, 1913, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolution:-
"That a proposed lease of part of the said land to John Valentine Gordon shall be agreed to."
Dated at Rotorua this 25th day of October, 1913.
JAS. W. BROWNE,
President.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909.
REGULATION No. 48.
THE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Waikawa No. 3 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kaha on Thursday, the 27th day of November, 1913, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolution:-
"That a proposed lease of the said land to Henry Hoyle Wall shall be agreed to."
Dated at Rotorua this 25th day of October, 1913.
JAS. W. BROWNE,
President.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909
REGULATION No. 48.
THE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Waikawa No. 2 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kaha on Thursday, the 27th day of November, 1913, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolution:-
"That a proposed lease of the said land to Gertrude Mabel Barton shall be agreed to."
Dated at Rotorua this 25th day of October, 1913.
JAS. W. BROWNE,
President.

Sections in the Townships of Te Kuiti, Otorohanga, and Taumarunui for Lease by Public Auction.
Office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 24th September, 1913.
NOTICE is hereby given that the sections in the Townships of Te Kuiti, Otorohanga, and Taumarunui respectively mentioned in the First, Second, and Third Schedules hereto will, at the places and on the dates specified, be offered by lease for public auction for a term of twenty-one years, with rights of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years, under the provisions of the Native Townships Act, 1910.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECTIONS TO BE OFFERED AT THE COURTHOUSE AT TE KUITI ON TUESDAY, THE 4TH NOVEMBER, 1913, AT 10 A.M.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
SECTIONS TO BE OFFERED AT THE COURTHOUSE, OTOROHANGA, ON TUESDAY, THE 4TH NOVEMBER, 1913, AT 12 NOON.

All fences not on boundary-lines and old buildings not mentioned to be removed. Maoris to have the right to take out any existing crops.

THIRD SCHEDULE.
SECTIONS TO BE OFFERED AT THE COURTHOUSE AT TAUMARUNUI ON WEDNESDAY, THE 5TH NOVEMBER, 1913, AT 10 A.M.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The respective lots shall be offered by public auction on the dates specified.
2. The bidder of the highest rent shall be declared to be the lessee, and if any dispute arises as to the last or highest bid at any auction for any lot the lot in dispute shall be put up again at the last preceding bid.
3. The highest bidder for any lot shall upon the fall of the hammer pay to the auctioneer the first half-year's rent in advance by way of deposit, which shall represent the half-year's rent as from the 1st January, 1914, and shall also deposit the sum of £1 for the lease fee.
4. The second half-year's rent shall become payable on the 1st July, 1914, and thenceforth the rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.
5. As soon as may be after the highest bidder is ascertained a lease will be prepared. Such lease shall be for the term of twenty-one years commencing from the 1st January, 1914, and the lessee shall execute the same in triplicate whenever requested to do so.
6. The lease will provide for renewal from time to time for successive periods, not exceeding in each case twenty-one years, at rentals to be fixed by valuation or by arbitration; and it will also provide for payment by the incoming tenant for improvements made by the outgoing tenant, the value of such improvements to be ascertained by arbitration.
7. In cases where any of the allotments are subject to the payment of the value of the improvements by the provisions of an expiring lease or otherwise, such value shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the deposit hereto-