3298
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

12. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improvements; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Board; failing disposal, the land and buildings to revert to the Crown without compensation.
13. Lease liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent within six months after due date, or for breach of conditions.
14. Land Board may resume not more than 5 acres for school-site upon reduction of rent and compensation for crops.
15. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
16. Lessee to have no right to any minerals.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

W. STEWART,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 18th October, 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, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 22nd November, 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.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wallace County.—Longwood Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for Four Years.)

SECTION 5, Block XVI: Area, 398 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £650. Half-yearly rent, £13.

Situated one mile and a half from Te Wae Wae Railway-station, School, and Dairy-factory. Suitable for grazing when felled and grassed. The improvements, included in the capital value of the land, comprise two huts, cow-byre, store-room, and stable, and fencing.

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 applications, 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. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.
6. Order of selection is decided by ballot.
7. Successful applicant to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.
8. Residence is to commence within four years in bush land or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, and to be continuous for ten years. Under certain conditions personal residence may be dispensed with.
9. 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.
10. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
11. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years’ continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.
12. 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.
13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Gisborne.

NOTICE is hereby given that CHARLES HAIG GRAHAM, of Gisborne, Oculist, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Jury-room on Monday, the 17th day of October, 1927, at 11 o’clock a.m.

C. BLACKBURN,
Deputy Official Assignee.

8th October, 1927.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at New Plymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that ROBERT MARROW SCOTT, of Tangarakau, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Thursday, the 20th day of October, 1927, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

J. S. S. MEDLEY,
Deputy Official Assignee.

10th October, 1927.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at New Plymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given that HENRY COFFIELD BUCKNALL SCOTT and HENRY COFFIELD BUCKNALL SCOTT, jun., trading as “H. B. C. Scott and Son,” of Stratford, Auctioneers, were this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Stratford, on Wednesday, the 26th day of October, 1927, at 2.15 o’clock p.m.

J. S. S. MEDLEY,
Deputy Official Assignee.

12th October, 1927.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that FREDERICK WILLIAM MACE, of Normanby, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, 10 Regent Street, Hawera, on Tuesday, the 18th day of October, 1927, at 2 o’clock p.m.

ROBERT S. SAGE,
Deputy Official Assignee.

11th October, 1927.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that PHILIP HENRY GREEN, of Hawera, Horse-trainer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, 10 Regent Street, Hawera, on Thursday, the 20th day of October, 1927, at 2 o’clock p.m.

ROBERT S. SAGE,
Deputy Official Assignee.

12th October, 1927.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that DAVID BURGESS, of Hawera, Draper’s Assistant, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, 10 Regent Street, Hawera, on Wednesday, the 26th day of October, 1927, at 2 o’clock p.m.

ROBERT S. SAGE,
Deputy Official Assignee.

13th October, 1927.