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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Dismissal from the Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 15th February, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, he having been convicted by the Civil power:—

Private Francis Durran, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Regiment.

Dated 24th January, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 19th February, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Frazerhurst, M.D., New Zealand Medical Corps.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 12th February, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Riverhead Paper-mill Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 1121, situated at Auckland, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1923.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1923.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Hori Raiti.

Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Albert E. Haynes.

Church of Christ.

Mr. Joshua Joseph Franklin.

International Bible Students’ Association (Wellington).

Mr. M. A. Howlett.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Notice to Holder of Pastoral Run License under Section 251 of the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 15th February, 1923.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 251 of the Land Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that, unless the arrears of rent and penalty thereon due in respect of the undermentioned pastoral run are paid within three months from the date of this Gazette, the interest of the licensee in the said run will be declared forfeited.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAE0 AND KAINGAROA SURVEY DISTRICTS.

RUN No. 58. Licensee: Randall Richard Keene. Area: 29,312 acres.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Maori Lands for Lease by Public Tender.

Tokerau District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 19th February, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations thereunder, that written tenders are invited and will be received at the office of the Tokerau District Maori Land Board, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, 19th April, 1923, for the lease of the land named in the Schedule hereto, for a term of seventeen years, with a right of renewal for a further term of seventeen years.

SCHEDULE.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Mangawhero P.

Block VI, Waoku Survey District: Area, 79 acres 2 roods 38 perches; upset annual rental, £6.

Steep and broken, mostly covered with heavy mixed bush; small portion in fern and manuka; well watered. Access is by road.

Mangawhero Q.

Block VI, Waoku Survey District: Area, 46 acres 3 roods 27 perches; upset annual rental, £3 10s.

Steep and broken, mostly covered with heavy mixed bush; portion in fern and manuka; well watered. Access is by road.

Mangawhero R.

Block VI, Waoku Survey District: Area, 112 acres 2 roods 16 perches; upset annual rental, £8 10s.

Steep and broken, mostly covered with heavy mixed bush; portion in fern and manuka; well watered. Access is by road.

LAND FOR LEASE.

1. The term of the lease shall be seventeen years from the 1st July, 1923, at the rental tendered, with right of renewal for one further term of seventeen years at a rental assessed at 5 per cent. on the unimproved value of the land at the time of the renewal, such valuation, in the event of a dispute, to be determined by arbitration. Compensation for substantial improvements shall be allowed to the lessee at the expiration of the second term of the lease, as provided in section 263 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

2. Residence to commence within four years in bush lands or swamp lands, and within one year in open or partly open lands, and to be continuous for six years.

3. Lessee has no right to minerals without license, but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, roadmaking, or building purposes.

4. Every lessee shall bring into cultivation,—
   (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;
   (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;
   (c.) Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him;
   and shall, within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character (as defined by the Land Act, 1908) on first-class land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land, and on second-class land to an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land: Provided that in no case shall the additional improvements required on second-class land be more than 10s. per acre, or 2s. 6d. on third-class land.

5. (a.) Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.
   (b.) Lessee shall not assign the lease without the consent of the Board.
   (c.) Lessee will cultivate the land in a husbandlike manner, and keep it free from noxious weeds.
   (d.) Lessee will keep fences and buildings in repair.
   (e.) Lessee will fence without any right of resort to the Board for contribution on account of the Board owning or occupying adjacent land; but this provision shall not deprive the lessee of any rights he may have against any subsequent occupier, other than the Board, of such adjacent land.
   (f.) A copy of the form of lease can be inspected at the office of the Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, Wellington, or the office of the Board.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO TENDERERS.

1. The land to be leased subject to reserve price or rental specified in each case.

2. Every tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope, addressed to the President of the Board, and marked on the outside as follows: “Tender for lease of , Block .”