May 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1457

Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

TENURE: R.L. 676. Section 6, Cricklewood Settlement. Formerly held by W. E. Sharp. Reason for forfeiture: Non-compliance with conditions of lease.

O. HAWKEN,
For Minister of Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 4th May, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Wellington Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

TENURE: L.S.R.L. Lease No. 191. Section 2s and part 3s, Greystoke Settlement. Formerly held by C. J. Granville. Reason for forfeiture: Non-compliance with conditions of lease.

O. HAWKEN,
For Minister of Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 4th May, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Southland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

TENURE: R.L.L.S. Lease No. 53. Section 6, Ardlussa Settlement, Block VII, Hokonui Survey District. Former lessee: William Thomas Poppelwell. Reason for forfeiture: At request.

Tenure: R.L.L.S. Lease No. 60. Section 5, Ardlussa Settlement, Block IV, Hokonui Survey District. Former lessee: William Thomas Poppelwell. Reason for forfeiture: At request.

O. HAWKEN,
For Minister of Lands.

Reserves in Gisborne Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 4th May, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 15th day of June, 1927, for leases of the undermentioned reserves under the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 86, Village of Hangaroa. Area: 17 acres 1 rood. Minimum annual rental, £10.

Lot 1 of Section 6, Block IX, Ngatapa Survey District. Area: 1 acre 2 roods 32 perches. Minimum annual rental, £1.

Lot 2 of Section 6, Block IX, Ngatapa Survey District. Area: 1 acre 3 roods. Minimum annual rental, £1.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

(1) Term of lease: Fourteen years, without right of renewal.

(2) Lease terminable at any time on six months’ notice in event of land being required by Crown.

(3) One half-year’s rent at rate tendered, together with lease fee (£1 ls.) must be deposited with tender.

(4) No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvement effected by the lessee.

(5) Possession will be given on date of acceptance of tender.

(6) The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

(7) The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

(8) The lessee shall have the right to use the land comprised in the lease for grazing and cropping purposes only.

(9) All persons duly authorized in that behalf shall have free right of ingress, egress, and regress for such purposes as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may deem expedient.

(10) The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land, and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, ragwort, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(11) The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and he shall prevent their increase and spread to the satisfaction 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 lease within thirty days after the date upon which the same ought to have been fulfilled.

Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Full particulars may be ascertained at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne.

E. H. FARNIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 9th May, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 20th June, 1927.

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 preceding 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; 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; and to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s Forces in connection with any war other than the war with Germany.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

(Exempt from rent for Three Years.)

Wairoa County.—Waiau Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block III: Area, 880 acres 2 roods 10 perches. Capital value, £5,000. Half-yearly rent, £100.

Comprises undulating to hilly country, steep in places. Generally good soil on papa formation with a fair sole of mixed grasses, principally native, excepting about 300 acres in the south-west, of which the soil is of fair quality of a light pumiceous nature; mostly in fern, with grass showing through portions of it. The whole well watered by permanent springs, small lakelets, and the Waikaretakeke Stream; ranging in altitude from about 1,200 to 2,300 ft. above sea-level. Situated on the Waikaremoana Road, which is metalled, about thirty-three miles from the shipping port and freezing-works at Wairoa.

The improvements which go with the land comprise half share of 300 chains of boundary, 320 chains of road, and roughly 180 chains of internal fencing, valued at £325, and 600 acres of grassing, valued at £1,800. The fences are old and the posts require renewing. Principally black wire on boundary and internal fencing, with galvanized wire along the road-fence.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

The section is exempt from rent for three years conditional on amount remitted being spent on improvements annually.