Aug. 6.

2. Rent payable 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 declaration, 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. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.
6. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
7. Improvements. — Lessee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price; within 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 foregoing, 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.
8. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.
9. 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.
10. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

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

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Marlborough Land District open for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 6th August, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 24th September, 1925, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Marlborough County.—Patriarch and Raglan Survey Districts.— Marlborough Mining District.

“Manuka Island” Run.

RUN 162 : Area, 22,380 acres ; annual rental, £150.
Term : Thirty-five years from 1st March, 1926.
Weighted with £235, valuation for improvements.
Situated in the Wairau Valley by Main Road about fifty miles from Blenheim. The Branch Post-office is situated just across the Wairau River from the run; a motor mail-service runs to and from this office bi-weekly. The run consists chiefly of very poor and broken hill-country, lying away from the sun, and rising to a height of about 5,000 ft. There is fair pasturage on the lower slopes adjacent to the Wairau and Goulter Rivers.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital value of the run are as follows : Two miles and a quarter of boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £150, five-roomed cob dwelling, old combined stable and barn, small iron storehouse, and cob fowlhouse, valued at £300: total, £450.
The improvements not included in the capital value of the run, but must be paid for separately in cash, comprise two miles and a quarter of subdivisional fencing, part iron and part wooden posts, value £150; small concrete dip and yards, value £45; iron chaff-house with concrete floor, value £20; one ton of iron roofing on shed, value £20 : total, £235.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS.

1. Term of license : Thirty-five years from 1st March, 1926.
2. Purchaser or applicant must be over twenty-one years of age.
3. One half-year’s rent, £1 1s. license fee, and statutory declaration to be deposited by the purchaser on the fall of the hammer, or on being declared the successful applicant.
4. No person may hold more than one run except on the recommendation of the Land Board, and with the approval of the Minister of Lands. If a husband holds a run, his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.
5. Rent is payable half-yearly in advance on 1st March and 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty days of due date a penalty of 10 per centum is added.
6. Term of license to be as stated hereon with contingent right of renewal over the whole or a subdivision of the run for a similar term.
7. Residence must commence within three years in the case of bush land or swamp land, and within one year in the case of open or partly open land, and be continuous until the expiration of the license. Under certain conditions personal residence may be dispensed with after ten years.
8. Licensee to prevent destruction or burning of timber, burning of snow tussock, burning of any tussock on the land, or not permit any tussock to be burned save with the prior consent in writing of the Land Board; to prevent growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds or plants; to keep down rabbits, and to refrain from burning grass during such months as the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time determine.
9. Licensee to have no right to the timber or flax on the land comprised in the license.
10. With the permission of the Land Board the licensee may—
    (a.) Cultivate a portion of the run and grow winter feed thereon.
    (b.) Plough and sow in grass any area not exceeding 3,000 acres.
    (c.) Clear of bush or scrub any portion of the run and sow same in grass.
    (d.) Surface-sow in grass any portion of the run.
    On the expiry of license the value of licensee’s improvements will be protected.
11. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained on application to this office.

J. STEVENSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that R. B. GRAHAM, of Wapiti Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, Taxi-proprietor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Monday, the 10th day of August, 1925, at 11 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.
24th July, 1925.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that GENNARO NIGRO, of Auckland, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Friday, the 7th day of August, 1925, at 11 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.
24th July, 1925.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that LESLIE JOHN MULLANEY, of Hobson Street, Auckland, Grocer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Thursday, the 13th day of August, 1925, at 11 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.
30th July, 1925.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that HERBERT CROSBY, of Great South Road, Green Lane, Auckland, Grocer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Friday, the 14th day of August, 1925, at 11 o'clock a.m.

W. S. FISHER,
Official Assignee.
1st August, 1925.