Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 26th September, 1922.
THE Miramar Branch No. 2, situated at Miramar, is
registered as a branch of the Grand United Order of
Odd Fellows Friendly Society of New Zealand, under the
Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 22nd day of September, 1922.
WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.--Declaration by the Registrar
dissolving a Society.

I, DONALD GEORGE CLARK, Registrar of Incorporated
Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made
to appear to me that The Brighton Amenities Society
(Incorporated) is no longer carrying on operations and has no
assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pursuance
of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.
Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of September, 1922.
D. G. CLARK,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.--Declaration by the Registrar
dissolving a Society.

I, DONALD GEORGE CLARK, Registrar of Incorporated
Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made
to appear to me that The New Zealand Public Service
Temporary Clerks Association (Incorporated) is no longer
carrying on operations and has no assets, the aforesaid society
is hereby dissolved, in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated
Societies Act, 1908.
Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of September, 1922.
D. G. CLARK,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Mining Privileges struck off the Register.--Notice under the
Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Office of the Mining Registrar,
Waihi, 20th September, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that the mining privileges men-
tioned in the Schedule hereto have been struck off
the Register, in pursuance of section 30, subsection (4), of
the Mining Amendment Act, 1914.
THOS. MORGAN, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No. 11363. Date : 16/4/20. Nature of privilege : Special
quartz claim (Dixon's Waimoana No. 1). Locality: Block III,
Waihi North Survey District. Registered holder : Edward
de V. Dixon.

No. 11364. Date : 16/4/20. Nature of privilege : Special
quartz claim (Dixon's Waimoana No. 2). Locality: Block III,
Waihi North Survey District. Registered holder : Edward
de V. Dixon.

Mining Privileges struck off the Register.--Notice under the
Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Mining Registrar's Office,
Naseby, 15th September, 1922.
PURSUANT to section 30 (4) of the Mining Amendment
Act, 1914, notice is hereby given that the mining
privileges mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been struck
off the Register kept by me, no cause to the contrary having
been shown within the prescribed period of three months.
C. R. J. INDER, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No. 4161. Date : 16/4/19. Nature of privilege : Special
alluvial claim. Locality: Macrae's. Registered holder:
Ah Phoo.

No. 2069. Date : 18/5/05. Nature of privilege : Special
alluvial claim. Locality: St. Bathan's. Registered holder:
Matthew Gannon.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Land in Merrivale No. 1 Settlement, Southland Land District,
open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 26th September, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
is open for selection on renewable lease under the
provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settle-
ments Act, 1908, and amendments ; and applications will be
received at this office up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the
30th day of October, 1922.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board
for examination at this office at 10.30 o'clock a.m. on
Wednesday, the 1st November, 1922.
The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination
of applicants.
Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants
who have one or more children dependent on them; to
landless applicants who within two years immediately pre-
ceding date of ballot have applied for land at least twice
unsuccessfully; to applicants who have served beyond New
Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force; and to
persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in
connection with the late war, if such persons immediately
prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.--SETTLEMENT LAND.
Wallace County.--Waiau Survey District.--Merrivale No. 1
Settlement.

SECTION 14, Block XI: Area, 293 acres 2 roods; capital
value, £1,174; annual instalment on deferred payment
(excluding interest), £58 14s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £27.
Weighted with £175, valuation for dwelling, byre, fencing,
&c.
Situated immediately opposite Orawia Post-office and store,
half a mile from dairy factory, and one mile and a half from
school. The whole area capable of cultivation, and is suitable
for sheep and agricultural farming. 125 chains frontage to
good gravelled road and 36 chains to unformed road. Per-
manently watered by Fenham Stream. About ten miles by
good gravelled road to Tuatapere Railway-station. At the
present time the section is out of order and requires regrassing.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, thirty-three years, with a perpetual
   right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three
   years and a right to acquire the freehold.
2. Rent, 4½ per cent. per annum on the capital value, pay-
   able in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.
4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory de-
   claration, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s.
   (lease fee) and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken
   period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July
   following is also payable.
5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be
   simultaneous.
6. No person may hold more than one allotment.
7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days
   after being notified that it is ready for signature.
8. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all
   rates, taxes, and assessments.
9. Improvements.--Lessee is required to improve the
   land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price;
   with two years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the
   price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of
   another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the fore-
   going, and within six years, improvements are also to be
   effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land,
   10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every
   acre of third-class land.
10. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of
    lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then
    only with permission.
11. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time
    within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed
    for area taken for such roads.
    Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

R. S. GALBRAITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.