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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 15

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Election to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth:—

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 17th February, 1936.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Reserve in Taranaki Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 18th February, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 24th March, 1936, for a lease of the undermentioned subdivision under the provisions of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SUBDIVISION 2 of Section 534, Patea District, Block XI, Hawera Survey District: Area, 50 acres 2 roods 4-4 perches. Minimum annual rental, £75.

This property is situated on the Main South Road opposite to the Mokoa Post-office and Store and within a quarter of a mile of the railway-station, dairy factory, and school. It comprises first-class quality ploughable land in grass.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. The lease shall be for a term of twenty-one years with provision for a right of renewal for one further period of twenty-one years. The annual rental for the second term shall be assessed at £17 10s. (for improvements belonging to the lessor) plus five per centum of the unimproved value of the land as determined by the Land Board of the Taranaki Land District.

2. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee, shall be paid on acceptance of tender. Thereafter rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

3. Possession will be given at expiration of thirty days from date of acceptance of tender.

4. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

5. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the demised land except with the prior written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

6. The lessee shall not take more than two crops, one of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succession; and either with or immediately after a second crop of any kind he shall sow the land down with good permanent cultivated grasses and clovers, and allow the land to remain as a pasture for at least three years from the harvesting of the last crop before again being cropped, and the lessee shall at the expiration of the term yield up the whole of the land in permanent pasture of grasses and clovers. All permanent pastures shall be top-dressed by the lessee with not less than 2 cwt. of artificial fertilizer per acre per annum, and shall be limed at least every five years at the rate of at least 10 cwt. of lime per acre.

7. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, ragwort, broom, and sweetbrier on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable dispatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, ragwort, sweetbrier, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Land Board; and he shall, at the proper season in each year, clip and trim all gorse and other live fences on the land included in the lease, including the outer fences around the shelter plantation, and he shall be at liberty to enter upon the other portions of the section not described or included in the lease for that purpose.

8. The lessee shall keep all buildings, fences, ditches, drains, watercourses, gates, fixtures, and other things upon and about the land in good order and condition, including the outer fences on boundaries of reserve which enclose the plantation, and he shall so yield them up at the end of the term.

9. The lessee shall have no right to cut or remove any tree in the shelter plantation surrounding the land comprised in the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

10. The lessee shall not engage in any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the demised land.

11. For the purpose of distinguishing improvements which may be effected to the property during the first twenty-one years of the lease, it is hereby agreed and declared that the following improvements of a total value of £350 are situated on the property: 63 chains boundary-fencing; 26 chains internal fencing; 50 acres 2 roods 4-4 perches pasture.

12. The lease shall be liable to termination in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

For any further particulars apply to the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/787.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Auction.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 19th February, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lots of milling-timber will be disposed of by public auction at the office of the State Forest Service, Palmerston North, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 9th day of March, 1936.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

The timber is located on areas about eighteen miles from National Park Railway-station, situated in Taurewa East No. 4 Block, Provisional State Forest No. 42, Blocks III, VI, and VII, Tongariro Survey District, and known as Lot 2a 3 and part b 4, Lot 3b 2, and Lot 4b 4.

LOT 2.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 812,428, or in board feet 5,347,450, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £10,256.

Time for removal of timber: Two years and a half.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-eighth of the purchase-price, together with £1 1s. license fee, must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance by seven quarterly instalments, the first of which shall be paid three months after the date of sale.