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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93

Stocks of Flour, Wheat, and Oats.

A CENSUS of stocks of flour, wheat, and oats in the Dominion was taken as at the 30th November, and the results are tabulated hereunder. Returns were received covering all stocks owned or stored by millers, merchants, and farmers throughout the Dominion, with a few unimportant exceptions which would not appreciably affect the totals given.

STOCKS BY DISTRICTS.

STOCKS HELD BY MILLERS, MERCHANTS, AND FARMERS.

| Millers | 7,636 | 495,654 | 185,794 | 100,299 | 36,882 | 818,629 | 123,877 | .. | 119,094 | .. | .. |
| Merchants | 1,653 | 254,040 | 91,155 | 30,492 | 45,707 | 421,394 | 213,660 | 550 | 716,471 | 5,114 | 393 |
| Farmers | 91 | 48,231 | 14,592 | 6,342 | 7,724 | 76,889 | 129,905 | 71,536 | 720,489 | 99,854 | 47,660 |
| Totals :. | 9,380 | 797,925 | 291,541 | 137,133 | 90,313 | 1,316,912 | 467,442 | 72,086 | 1,556,054 | 104,968 | 48,053 |

STOCKS OWNED BY MILLERS, MERCHANTS, AND FARMERS.

| Millers | 7,798 | 595,150 | 228,544 | 114,739 | 65,832 | 1,004,265 | 124,057 | 700 | 134,898 | 320 | 30 |
| Merchants | 1,481 | 105,711 | 28,312 | 9,299 | 14,671 | 157,993 | 117,484 | 550 | 569,019 | 1,502 | 416 |
| Farmers | 101 | 97,064 | 34,685 | 13,095 | 9,810 | 154,654 | 225,901 | 70,836 | 852,137 | 103,146 | 47,607 |
| Totals, 30/11/22 | 9,380 | 797,925 | 291,541 | 137,133 | 90,313 | 1,316,912 | 467,442 | 72,086 | 1,556,054 | 104,968 | 48,053 |
| Corresponding figures, 30/11/21 | 10,618 | 517,049 | 330,511 | 30,788 | 12,668 | 891,016 | 77,060 | 2,453 | 1,237,547 | 46,012 | 50,157 |

Census and Statistics Office,
Wellington, 13th December, 1922.

MALCOLM FRASER,
Government Statistician.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Crown Land in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 12th December, 1922.

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 Wednesday, 17th January, 1923, for a lease of the undermentioned section, under the provisions of section 130 of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

PART Section 62, Block I, Mahoe Survey District (formerly Whangamomona Police Reserve) : Area, 3 roods 13·2 perches ; upset annual rent, £3.
Term, five years.
Situated close to the Whangamomona Railway-station.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Tenders must be accompanied by marked cheque or post-office order for six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 ls. lease fee.
2. Residence is not compulsory, and no statutory declaration 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 five years, but shall be subject to termination by three months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.
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 succession: 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.
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.
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.
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 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 day on which the same ought to be fulfilled.
12. Any officer in the Government service acting in the execution of his duty shall at all times have free ingress, egress, and regress into, through, over, and out of the section without let or hindrance.
13. All tenders to be marked on the outside of the envelope “Tender for Section, Whangamomona.”
14. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

The section is 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 and full particulars obtained at this office.

H. J. LOWE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.