SEPT. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3539

APPLICATION FOR REVOCATION OF ORDER IN COUNCIL UNDER PART XVI OF THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1909.

APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO TRANSFER OF LEASE UNDER SECTION 311 OF THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1909.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 48.

THE Maori Land Board for the Tokerau Maori Land District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Motatau 3F 2 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Kawakawa on Friday, the 9th day of October, 1914, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolution :—
“ That the said land be sold to Nau Paraone for the sum of £2 per acre.”
Dated at Auckland this 4th day of September, 1914.
T. H. WILSON,
President.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 48.

THE Maori Land Board for the Tokerau Maori Land District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Toetoe No. 2B will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Whangarei on Thursday, the 8th day of October, 1914, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolution :—
“ That the said land be sold to George Fraser for the sum of £150, being the Government valuation.”
Dated at Auckland this 4th day of September, 1914.
T. H. WILSON,
President.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 48.

THE Maori Land Board for the Tokerau Maori Land District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Mimitu-Puarei No. 16 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Whangarei on Thursday, the 8th day of October, 1914, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolution :—
“ That the said block be leased to Donald Laing for a term of forty years at a rental of 1s. per acre for the first twenty years, and 2s. per acre for the next twenty years.”
Dated at Auckland this 4th day of September, 1914.
T. H. WILSON,
President.

Maori Lands for Lease by Public Tender.

Office of the Waiariki District Maori Land Board,
Rotorua, 25th August, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments, and the regulations thereunder, that written tenders are invited and will be received at the office of the Waiariki District Maori Land Board, Rotorua, up to 5 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 6th day of October, 1914, for the lease of the land named in the First and Second Schedules hereto, in the terms and conditions set out in the Third Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULES.

WAIARIKI NATIVE LAND DISTRICT.—TAURANGA COUNTY.—
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Paengaroa North A No. 1 Section 2 Block.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Conditions under which Lot 1 is offered for selection.

1. The land is offered at the upset rental stated.
2. The highest tenderer shall be the lessee. In the event of no tender being received, the lot shall remain open for selection at the upset rental.
3. Every tender must be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to the President of the Maori Land Board, Waiariki District, Rotorua, and marked “Tender for the lease of Lot of Paengaroa North A No. 1 Section 2 Block,” and must be accompanied by half-year’s rent and the sum of £3 3s. to cover the cost of the preparation of the lease, and an amount sufficient to cover the stamping and registering of the lease.
4. The lease will be prepared by the Board.
5. The successful tenderer will be required, within thirty days from the date on which the lease shall be tendered to him by the Board for execution, to sign the same in triplicate. In the event of his failure to do so, the Board may forfeit the deposit paid by him, and again offer the land at the upset price freed from any obligations to the defaulting lessee.
6. The Board reserves the right to withdraw from lease the lot at any time prior to the time for receiving the tenders.
7. The lessee shall be required, before obtaining his lease, to make a declaration as required by Part XII of the Native Land Act, 1909, that he is not the owner or occupier of 5,000 acres of third-class land, or its equivalent in other classes of land.
8. The land is offered under the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments, and the regulations made thereunder. The lessee shall be deemed to be acquainted with the provisions thereof, and be bound thereby as effectively as if such provisions were embodied herein.
9. The term of the lease shall be twenty-one years from the 1st day of January, 1915, at the rental tendered, with right of renewal for one further term of twenty-one years at a rental assessed at 5 per centum on the unimproved value of the land at the time of the renewal, such valuation in the event of dispute to be determined by arbitration. Compensation for substantial improvements shall be allowed to the lessee at the expiration of the second term of the lease, as provided in section 263 of the Native Land Act, 1909.
10. Lessee has no right to minerals without license, but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, road-making, or building purposes.