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plied with the conditions herein set out as to improvements if, within the time prescribed by the regulations in that behalf, he puts on the land improvements to a value of not less than half of the prescribed value.

7. At any time after completion of improvements to the value prescribed in respect of the period of six years after the date of selection a licensee who has complied to the satisfaction of the Board with all the conditions of his license shall be entitled, without payment, other than the necessary Crown-grant fee, to become the owner in fee-simple of the land comprised therein.

Forfeiture and Surrender.

8. If any licensee under these regulations shall fail from time to time to effect the prescribed improvements, or in any other manner shall commit any breach of any conditions to which his license is subject, whether express or implied, his interest therein shall be liable to be absolutely forfeited, and the land shall revert to His Majesty the King.

Any licensee may, with the consent of the Minister, on the recommendation of the Land Board, surrender his interest in his license.

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

O. N. CAMPBELL,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2563.)

Settlement Land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 20th January, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and amendments, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 17th February, 1931.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, 19th February, 1931, at 9.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The ballot will be held immediately on conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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; 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; and to landless applicants in respect of whom the Board, after taking into consideration the experience and skill of the applicants in farming operations, the proximity of their homes to the lands the subject-matter of the ballot, and any other relevant considerations, is of opinion that they should be entitled to preference equally with applicants of any of the hereinbefore specified classes.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND:—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Puketapu Survey District.—Tongoio Settlement.

SECTION 5, Block IV: Area, 796 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £3,180. Half-yearly rent, £79 10s.

Exempt from payment of rent for one year provided scrub-cutting to an equal value is carried out within twelve months to the satisfaction of the Field Inspector.

Weighted with £1,620, for improvements consisting of ten-roomed dwelling (with three verandas, hot and cold water), stable and car-shed, whare, wool-shed, yards, 782 chains fencing, plantation, and ditches. This sum is payable by a cash deposit of £20, mortgage to Department of £850, payable by fifty half-yearly instalments of £29 15s. and one of £21 19s. 11d.; balance (£750) may be secured by promissory note to be given by selector and endorsed by two satisfactory sureties, payable in twelve months, and bearing interest at 6 per cent. On maturity of the note the selector, if unable to pay the amount due, may arrange for same to be left on mortgage.

Situated on the Tongoio–Arapawanui Road, a quarter of a mile from Tongoio Post-office, half a mile from Tongoio Maori School, seven miles from Riverside Railway-station, and twenty-six miles from Heretaunga Dairy Factory (motor-lorry calls). Access by good metalled road, fifteen miles from Napier. Watered by permanent springs and streams. The soil is sandy loam in flats and clay loam on hills. Mostly hilly, rising to about 900 ft. above sea-level. Suitable for dairying or mixed farming on flats, and sheep-farming on hill portions. Badly infested with blackberry.

NOTE.—The Department of Agriculture has the right to fence off an area of approximately 2 acres near the western boundary for experiments in control of blackberry.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Thirty-three years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years, and a right to acquire the freehold.

2. Rent: Five per cent. per annum on the capital value, 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. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.

6. No persons may hold more than one allotment.

7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.

8. Lessee to reside continuously on the land and pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.

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. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.

11. 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.

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

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

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. XI/2/273.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that GILBERT PATRICK O’SHAN-NASSY, of Brooklyn Flats, Auckland, Teacher, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, Wright’s Buildings, Fort Street, Auckland, on Tuesday, the 27th day of January, 1931, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 17th day of January, 1931.

G. W. BROWN,
Acting Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM DAVID RENNIE, of Te Miro Soldiers’ Settlement, Cambridge, Farmer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Cambridge, on Monday, the 2nd day of February, 1931, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Hamilton, this 20th day of January, 1931.

V. R. CROWHURST,
Official Assignee.