Feb. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 573

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at rate offered, and lease and registration fees, £2 2s., must accompany each tender.
2. Term of lease is twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for 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 outgoing lessee, less any sums due to the Crown.
4. No transfer or sublease allowed without consent.
5. Lessee to cultivate and improve land, and keep it clear of weeds. Creeks, drains, and watercourses to be kept open.
6. Interest at rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.
7. Buildings on land to be kept in good order, repair, and condition.
8. No gravel to be removed from land without consent of the Land Board.
9. Lessee will not carry on any offensive trade.
10. Lessee to give notice to Land Board before making improvements.
11. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
12. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

The owner of the buildings on the sections will be given one month from date of acceptance of tender to remove them. Envelopes should be marked on the outside “Tender for Reserve.”

Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained at this office.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 22nd December, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Tuesday, the 24th March, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

An estimated area of 1 acre at the southern extremity of Section 11, Block I, Upper Taieri Survey District.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—ROTORUA COUNTY.—ROTOITI SURVEY DISTRICT.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 13th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act and its amendments on or after Thursday, the 16th day of April, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Matamata County.—Putaruru Village.

Section 11, Block V: 1 rood 9 perches.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 21 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m., on Monday, the 23rd February, 1914.

The ballot for the sections for which there are more than one applicant will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, the 26th February, 1914, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

Preference will be given to landless applicants who have children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PIAKO COUNTY.—WAITOA SURVEY DISTRICT.—BALACHRAGGAN SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 25.—Open land, on which manuka has been cut but not burnt; a little rough feed. 19 chains boundary-fencing and 9½ chains boundary-drain, valued at £12 (half-share), go with the section. Four miles and a half from Waitoa Railway-station by formed road.

Section 31.—24 acres high manuka, balance open land on which manuka has been cut but not burnt; a little rough feed. 20 chains boundary-fencing, and 10 chains boundary-drain, valued at £13 (half-share), go with the section. Four miles and a half from Waitoa Station by formed road.

Terms of lease may be seen and forms of application obtained at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Westland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 29th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Thursday, 7th May, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All those areas formerly reserved for railway purposes and declared to be Crown lands by Proclamation dated 4th day of March, 1913, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 19, of 6th March, 1913, page 756, as follows:—

All that area (save and except any land at present occupied by the Greymouth–Otira Railway) in Otira and Turiwhate Survey Districts, containing about 1,064 acres, more or less, commencing at the Taipo River and extending along the southern side of the Teremakau Valley to the Otira River, a distance of 13 miles 26 chains, and having a width of 10 chains.

Also all that area in Turiwhate and Kanieri Survey Districts, containing 436 acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the boundary of Native Reserve No. 30 on the north side of Kawhaka Creek; thence along the Kawhaka Valley to the summit of the saddle; thence down the Waimea Valley and along the northern slopes of Mount Turiwhate to Rangariri Creek, and continuing along the south side of the Teremakau Valley to the Taipo River, a distance of 18 miles 12 chains, and having a width of 3 chains.

Also all that area in Waimea Survey District, containing 24 acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the southern boundary of Native Reserve No. 30, the same being at the intersection of the railway and road reserve along the coast, and extending southerly and easterly to the southern boundary of Native Reserve No. 30, a distance of one mile, and having of a width of 3 chains.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32681, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow, red, and green respectively.

H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.