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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

Tenders for Leases in the Karewa Native Township.

Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 20th September, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that tenders are invited and
will be received at the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto
District Maori Land Board, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m.
on Thursday, 10th November, 1927, for leases of the under-
mentioned sections, for terms of twenty-one years, with right
of renewals for further terms of twenty-one years.

SCHEDULE.

Kawhia County.—Karewa Township.

BLOCK II.

| 9 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 10 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 11 .. | 0 1 2 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 12 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 17 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 22 (N.R.)| 0 0 30 | 1 10 0 | 25 0 0 |
| 23 (N.R.)| 0 0 28 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 24 (N.R.)| 0 0 26 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 25 (N.R.)| 0 0 24 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 26 (N.R.)| 0 0 21 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 27 (N.R.)| 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 28 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 29 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 32 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 33 .. | 0 0 37 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 34 .. | 0 0 29 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 35 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 36 .. | 0 0 35 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 37 (N.R.)| 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 38 .. | 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | .. |
| 42 (N.R.)| 0 0 26 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 43 (N.R.)| 0 0 25 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 48 (N.R.)| 0 1 0 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 65 (N.R.)| 0 1 37 | 2 0 0 | .. |
| 66 (N.R.)| 1 0 2 | 4 0 0 | 500 0 0 |
| 71 (N.R.)| 0 0 25 | 1 10 0 | 15 0 0 |
| 72 (N.R.)| 0 0 25 | 1 0 0 | 120 0 0 |
| 74 .. | 0 0 25 | 1 5 0 | .. |
| 77 (N.R.)| 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | 300 0 0 |
| 78 (N.R.)| 0 1 0 | 1 10 0 | 200 0 0 |
| 90 (N.R.)| 0 0 29 | 1 0 0 | .. |
| 91 (N.R.)| 0 0 26 | 1 0 0 | .. |

*Successful tenderers, if called upon to do so, will be
required to deposit with the Board, within thirty days of
the date on which such notice may be given, a marked
cheque for the full amount of the improvements with which
these sections are loaded.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of the lease shall be twenty-one years from
   the 1st January, 1928, at the rental tendered, with right of
   renewal of the lease for further terms of twenty-one years,
   at fair annual ground-rents to be fixed in accordance with
   the terms of the lease.
2. The lessee will pay all rates, taxes, &c.
3. The lessee will keep the land free from noxious weeds.
4. The lessee will keep all buildings, drains, and fences in
   good order and repair.
5. The lessee will not carry on any offensive trade.
6. The lessee will not assign or sublet without the previous
   consent, in writing, of the lessor.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO TENDERERS.

The sections will be leased subject to the upset rental
specified in each case.
Every tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope ad-
dressed to the President of the Board, and marked on the
outside as follows: “Tender for lease of Section
, Block
, Township.”
Tenders must be accompanied by six months’ rent; lease-
fee, £4 4s.; stamp duty, 6s.; and registration fee, 10s. If
any person desires to tender for more than one section a
separate tender for each section must be made. In the event
of two or more sections being included in the one lease the
excess fees will be refunded.
The highest tenderer to be declared the lessee, but the
Board reserves the right to decline to accept any tender.
No lease of the sections marked “N.R.” will be granted
by the Board except with the precedent consent in writing
of the beneficial owners, or of their trustees in the case of
owners under disability, or in pursuance of a resolution of
the assembled owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land
Act, 1909.
Plans of the sections and forms of lease can be inspected
at the office of the Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, Wel-
ington, the offices of the Board, or the post-offices at Kawhia
and Te Maika.

C. E. MacCORMICK, President,
Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland.

Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 27th September, 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, New Plymouth, up to
4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 10th October, 1927.
Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants
who have one or more children dependent on them; to land-
less applicants who, within two years immediately preceding
date of ballot, have applied for land at least twice unsuccess-
fully; 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.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Rangi Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for Two Years.)

SECTION 3, Block I: Area, 389 acres. Capital value, £400.
Half-yearly rent, £8.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of two years,
provided improvements to the value of £40 are effected
annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £1,150, valuation for improvements com-
prising good new four-roomed house and outbuilding; about
280 chains of fencing. This amount is either payable in cash or
may be secured by way of an instalment mortgage under the
Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act for a term of 34½ years,
after payment of a cash deposit of £115.

Section is situated on the Opotiki Road, about four miles
from Okahukura Railway-station and four miles from Okahu-
kura School. Comprises 25 acres flat and undulating land;
balance hilly; 200 acres bush land felled and grassed in very
fair pasture, and 150 acres in standing bush. Soil is of good
quality. Well watered by streams.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, sixty-six years, with a perpetual right of
   renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years.
2. Rent, 4 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable
   on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.
4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applica-
   tions, 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.