OCT. 2.]

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 land 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, Hokitika.

T. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 23/781.)

Education Reserves in Taranaki Land District for Lease by
Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 29th September, 1930.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned
education reserves will be offered for lease by public
auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Ply-
mouth, at 10.30 o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, 5th November,
1930, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act,
1928, and the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.

SECTION 13, Block XI : Area, 302 acres. Upset annual rent,
£7 10s.

Weighted with £200, for improvements comprising about
50 acres worn-out pasture, about 252 acres bush land felled
and grassed (now reverted to second growth), 150 chains
fencing, house (poor order) and cow-shed. This sum is payable
in cash.

Situated on the Mokauiti Road, about thirty miles from Te
Kuiti Railway-station, about half a mile from Onairo School,
and about six miles from Aria Dairy Factory.

Watered by running streams and springs.

This property is broken by rhyolite and sandstone bluffs.
Present carrying-capacity is estimated at 50 ewes and 10 steers
and heifers.

After payment of the first half year's rent, broken period
rent (if any), and lease fee, a remission of rent will be allowed
for a period of five years, provided improvements to value of
£15 is effected annually.

Patea Borough.—Town of Patea.

Sections 3 and 4, Block XVIII : Area, 2 roods. Upset
annual rental, £5.

This property is situated in Norfolk Street, and is all in grass.
Level sections, about 30 chains from Patea Post-office and
about half a mile from the school. On the road frontage, there
is a hedge, with one chain of fence and gate. The remaining
sides are defined with boxthorn hedge. Water is laid on.
The annual rate is £1 14s. 8d.

Weighted with £13 for improvements. This sum is payable
in cash immediately on fall of hammer.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Six months' rent at the rate offered and £2 2s. (lease fee)
   must be deposited on acceptance of bid.

2. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with perpetual right
   of renewal for further similar terms at rentals based on fresh
   valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies' Leases
   Act, 1908.

3. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.

4. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all build-
   ings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains,
   ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and
   yield up all improvements in good order and condition at
   the expiration of his lease.

5. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the
   consent of the Land Board.

6. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the
   consent of the Land Board.

7. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive
   trade upon the land.

8. No liability is accepted on the part of the Crown or
   of the Land Board to pay to the lessee any compensation for
   improvements, but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration,
   or if it is sooner determined, the new lease offered for disposal
   by public competition will be subject to payment by the
   incoming tenant of an amount equal to the value of buildings
   and improvements effected by the original lessee; and the
   amount so paid by the incoming tenant shall be paid to the
   original lessee without any deduction except for rent or other
   payments in arrear.

9. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

10. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

11. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be
    paid on rent in arrear.

12. Possession will be given on the day of the sale.

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

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/2807.)

Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 30th September, 1930.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve
will be offered for lease by public auction at the District
Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, 5th
November, 1930, at 11 o'clock a.m., under the provisions of
the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

SECTION 30, Block VIII, Toetoes District : Area, 55 acres
1 rood 3 perches. Upset annual rental, £30.

Signal reserve situated within a mile of Fortrose. Good
grazing-land.

Abstract of Conditions of Lease.

1. Term of lease: Fourteen years from 1st November, 1930.

2. Rent payable half-yearly in advance, on the 1st April
   and 1st October in each year.

3. No improvements to be effected without prior consent in
   writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

4. If at end of term a new lease is submitted at auction then
   value of improvements effected with consent as aforesaid,
   will be payable by incoming lessee, but in no circumstances
   whatever will Crown be liable to pay for any improvements.

5. Lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse,
   broom, and other noxious weeds on the land.

6. Lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, mortgage,
   or otherwise dispose of the land without the prior consent in
   writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

7. Lessee shall pay all rates, taxes, and other assessments
   accruing upon the said land.

8. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to this
office.

J. MACDONALD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 1913/1662.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 1st October, 1930.
NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the
purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will
close at the office of the State Forest Service, Hokitika, at
4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, the 24th day of October, 1930.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND
DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on the area, containing approximately
174 acres, situated in Block XV, Kanieri Survey
District, part of Provisional State Forest Reserve 1622, about
sixteen miles from Hokitika.