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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 12

Reserve in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 9th February, 1921.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be
received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New
Plymouth, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 21st March,
1921, for a lease of the undermentioned section, under the
provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and
amendments.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

PART Section 534, Patea District, Block XI, Hawera Survey
District, Hawera County: Area, 53 acres 2 roods 32 perches;
term, fourteen years; upset annual rental, £90.

Situated on the main South Road, which is metalled;
distant about fifteen chains from the Mokoia Railway-station,
and about six miles from the Hawera Railway-station by
the South Road. The land is practically level, in good pas-
ture, and is ring-fenced, there being a belt of plantation
with fencing on both sides.

It is in every respect a desirable property for depasturing
purposes, being well sheltered from the prevailing and cold
southerly winds.

There are no buildings on the property.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-
   office order for six month's rent at the rate offered, together
   with £1 ls. lease fee.

2. Residence is not compulsory, and no statutory declara-
   tion is required. No compensation shall be claimed by the
   lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on
   account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor
   for any other cause.

3. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of
   tender.

4. The lease shall be for the term of fourteen years, but
   shall be subject to termination by twelve months' notice in
   the event of the land being required by the Government at
   the end of the fifth and tenth years.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free
   from all deductions whatsoever.

6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or
   otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease except

with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown
Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall not take more than two crops, one of
   which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succes-
   sion; and either with or immediately after a second crop of
   any kind he shall sow the land down with good permanent
   cultivated grasses and clovers, and allow the land to remain
   as a pasture for at least three years from the harvesting of
   the last crop before again being cropped.

8. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of
   gorse, broom, and sweetbrier on the land comprised in [the
   lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove,
   or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbrier, broom, or
   other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands ; and he shall, at the proper
   season in each year, clip and trim all gorse and other live
   fences on the land included in the lease, including the outer
   fences around the shelter plantation, and he shall be at
   liberty to enter upon the other portions of the section not
   described or included in the lease for that purpose.

9. The lessee will keep all buildings, fences, ditches, drains,
   watercourses, gates, fixtures, and other things upon and
   about the land in good order and condition, including the
   outer fences on boundaries of reserve which enclose the
   plantation, and he shall so yield them up at the end of the
   term.

10. The lessee shall at the expiration of the term yield up
    the whole of the land in permanent pasture of grasses and
    clovers.

11. The lessee shall not cut the cultivated grasses or
    clovers for hay or seed during the first year from the time
    of sowing as aforesaid, nor shall he at any time remove from
    the land or burn any straw grown upon the land. The
    lessee shall have no right to cut or remove any tree in the
    shelter plantation surrounding the land comprised in the
    lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of
    Crown Lands.

12. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee
    shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease
    within thirty days after the date on which the same ought
    to be fulfilled.

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

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

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.

In the estate of HAENGA PURETIPUA, of Frasertown,
Labourer, bankrupt.

NOTICE is hereby given that a first dividend of 7s. 6d.
in the pound is now payable on all accepted proved
claims at my office, Napier.

ROBERT BISHOP,
Deputy Official Assignee
8th February, 1921.

In Bankruptcy.

In the estate of WILLIAM JOHN HARVEY, Chemical Im-
porter, Feilding, a bankrupt.

WRITTEN tenders wanted by the undermentioned for
the purchase of stock, &c., as a going concern.
Stock may be inspected on application to F. Kendall, Supply
Stores, Feilding, who has a copy of stock sheets, or these
will be supplied on application to Deputy Official Assignee
Tenders close 12th February, 1921.

CHARLES E. DEMPSY,
Deputy Official Assignee.
Palmerston North, 4th February, 1921.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court holden at
Masterton

NOTICE is hereby given that VERA MURIEL IRVINE, of
Masterton (now of Devonport), Married Woman,
was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon
a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Friday,
the 11th day of February, 1921, at 11.45 o'clock.

ARTHUR D. LOW,
Deputy Official Assignee.
7th February, 1921.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court holden at
Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that KATHERINE MAUD
BLANCHARD, of 3A Courtenay Place, Wellington,
Married Woman, was this day adjudged bankrupt on
creditors' petition; and I hereby summon a meeting of
creditors to be holden at my office on Wednesday, the
16th day of February, 1921, at 2.30 o'clock.

S. TANSLEY,
Official Assignee.
3rd February, 1921.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land herein-
after described will be brought under the provisions
of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged for-
bidding the same on or before the 10th March, 1921.

6267. EMILY FANNY DODD.—Parts Allotments 2, 3, 4,
      and 12, Parish of Arapohue, containing together 450 acres
      2 roods 1.3 perches. Occupied by Alfred Lloyd Ball, Ernest
      Albert Wilkins, Washington Charters Bradley, William John
      Curnow, and Hamilton Rowan Bradley. Plan 11431..

6268. ALEXANDER WOTHERSPOON.—Parts of Allot-
      ments 6 and 7, Parish of Pakiri, containing together 152 acres
      0 roods 38.1 perches. Occupied by applicant. Plan 12429.

6269. PATRICK HENRY.—Part Allotment 40, Parish of
      Taupiri, containing 7 acres 0 roods 20 perches. Occupied by
      applicant. Plan 12526.

6270. GEORGE EDWARD HAMILTON.—Part Allotment
      l, Parish of Te Rapa, containing 1 rood 20.3 perches, fronting
      Main Street, Frankton. Occupied by applicant. Plan 12763.

6271. JOSEPH HENRY SCOTT.—Allotments 151 and 152,
      Town of Hamilton West, containing 2 acres 0 roods 5 perches,
      fronting Ulster Street. Occupied by applicant. Plan 12842..

6272. OSCAR HAROLD DILLNER.—Part Allotment 25A
      of Section 3, Suburbs of Auckland, containing 24.3 perches,