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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.
11. The lessee shall bring into cultivation :—
    (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;
    (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;
    (c.) Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him; and shall, within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character (as defined by the Land Act, 1908), on the land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land.
12. (a.) Rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance.
    (b.) Lessee will not assign the lease without the consent of the Board.
    (c.) Lessee will cultivate the land in a husbandlike manner, and keep it free from noxious weeds.
    (d.) Lessee will keep the fences and buildings in repair.
    (e.) Lessee will fence without any right of resort to the Board for contribution on account of the Board owning or occupying adjacent land; but this provision shall not deprive the lessee of any rights he may have against any subsequent occupier, other than the Board, of such adjacent land.
    (f.) A copy of the form of lease can be inspected at the office of the Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, Wellington, or at the office of the Board.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Lot 2 is offered for lease for a term of seven years from the 1st day of January, 1915, under the following conditions as enumerated in the Third Schedule hereof: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
President, Waiariki District Maori Land Board.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN STEVENSON, of Auckland, Clerk, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 18th day of September, 1914, at 2.30 o’clock.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

Auckland, 12th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN LANGTON, of Parakao, Storekeeper and Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday, the 22nd day of September, 1914, at 11 o’clock.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.

Auckland, 14th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, Wanganui District.

In the estate of ARTHUR EDWARD WILLIAMS, of Rangataua, Storekeeper.

NOTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend of 3s. 2½d. in the pound is now payable at my office, the Public Trust Office, Wanganui, on all proved and accepted claims.

T. R. SAYWELL,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Wanganui, 9th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, Wanganui District.

In the estate of CHARLES HENRY BUCKLEY, of Wanganui, Blacksmith.

NOTICE is hereby given that a first and final dividend of 1s. 1d. in the pound is now payable at my office, the Public Trust Office, Wanganui, on all proved and accepted claims.

T. R. SAYWELL,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Wanganui, 12th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Palmerston North.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN STEEL McNICOL, of Mangamutu, Grocer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 18th day of September, 1914, at 2.30 o’clock.

J. D. WILSON,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Pahiatua, 10th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN McLACHLAN, Contractor, of Masterton, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Masterton, on Friday, the 18th day of September, 1914, at 12 o’clock noon.

G. W. SELLAR,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Masterton, 9th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN M. THOMSON, of Wellington, Stationer, was this day adjudged bankrupt on creditors’ petition; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 25th day of September, 1914, at 11 o’clock a.m.

CHAS. ZACHARIAH,
Acting Official Assignee.

Wellington, 11th September, 1914.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Westport.

NOTICE is hereby given that JAMES ALEXANDER, of Burnett’s Face, Coal-miner, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday, the 15th day of September, 1914, at 2 o’clock p.m.

W. T. SLEE,
Official Assignee.

Westport, 7th September, 1914.

In Liquidation.—In the Supreme Court, held at Christchurch.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the KISSELTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY (in Liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that by an order of the above-named Court dated the 17th day of August, 1914, the above-named company was ordered to be wound up under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, Public Trust Buildings, No. 96 Gloucester Street West, Christchurch, on Tuesday, the 15th instant, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

GEO. A. SMYTH,
Official Liquidator.

Christchurch, 10th September, 1914.