May 27.

The NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1899

meter, prismatic compass, chain, and the occasional use of theodolite on railway survey parties; also the use of the same instruments in road-grading.

The appointment will be subject to the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912.

The position will be graded in the General Division. Salary, £180 per annum ; maximum, £250.

P. VERSCHAFFELT, Secretary.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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

District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, 24th May, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the education reserves described in the Schedule hereto will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, at 11.30 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, the 15th day of July, 1915, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Town of New Plymouth.
Part S .. | .. | 0 1 4·3 | £1 0 0
196A .. | .. | 0 1 10 | £4 0 0
196B .. | .. | 0 1 6 | £3 0 0
196c .. | .. | 0 1 1 | £2 10 0
Part 196H .. | .. | 0 0 38·7 | £1 10 0
514 .. | .. | 0 1 1·3 | £6 0 0
515 .. | .. | 0 1 1·3 | £4 0 0
794 .. | .. | 0 1 3·6 | £4 0 0
1291 .. | .. | 0 1 1 | £7 10 0
2313 .. | .. | 0 1 2 | £3 0 0
2314 .. | .. | 0 0 39 | £3 0 0
2321, 2322, parts .. | .. | 0 3 10 | £5 0 0
2323, 2324

The sections are all in grass. Section 794 is a slope, with no building-site; part S is a gully below street-level; the remaining sections are either flat or gently sloping.

Town of Stratford.

Flat or gently sloping land, in grass.

Town of Manaia.

Mostly good flat land, all in grass.

RURAL LAND.

Tikorangi Town Belt.

2 and 3 .. | .. | 13 3 6 | £7 0 0
Comprises mostly easy to flat land, partly under grass and partly cropped.

Tikorangi Town Belt and District.
4 | Town Belt | A R. P. | £ s. d.
Part 32 | Tikorangi | 9 2 31 | £5 0 0
District

Comprises easy to undulating land, all in grass.

NOTE.—Possession of Sections 2313, 2314, and 2321 to 2324, New Plymouth, will be given on 1st September, and remaining sections on day of sale.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year's rent at rate offered, and lease and registration fees, £2 2s., to be paid on fall of hammer.

2. Term of lease is twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for successive terms of twenty-one years at rents based on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

3. No compensation for improvements; but if lease is not renewed upon expiry, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Land Board; failing disposal, the land and improvements revert to the Crown without compensation.

4. No transfer, mortgage, sublease, or subdivision allowed without consent.

5. Lessee to cultivate and improve the land and keep it clear of weeds.

6. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, fences, gates, and drains, and to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, to trim all live hedges, and to yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of the lease.

7. Rent payable half-yearly in advance, subject to penalty at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for any period during which it remains in arrear.

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.

These leases are included in the classes of land on which, with the approval of the Advances Board, money may be advanced by the State-guaranteed Advances Office.

The reserves are described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

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

G. H. BULLARD, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in the Rangiriri Survey District, Auckland Land District, for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 24th May, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for lease of the undermentioned land for a term of ten years will be received at this office up till 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 9th July, 1915, under the provisions of section 124 of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-RAGLAN COUNTY.-RANGIRIRI SURVEY DISTRICT.

VILLAGE Reserve, Block XIV ; 327 acres ; minimum annual rental, £10.

Undulating ploughable land, all tea-tree and fern. Soil is of fair second-class quality, on clay subsoil; poorly watered by swamps and gullies. Ten miles from Huntly by fair formed road.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lease shall be for the term stated above.

2. The lessee shall have no right to compensation for improvements put on the land; but he may, on the expiration of the lease, remove all buildings or fences erected by him, but not otherwise.

3. The lessee shall not sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of his interest in the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands,