1598
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Waikaki County.—Benmore Survey District.
(National Endowment.)

SECTION 7, Block I: Area, 748 acres. Capital value, £750. Deposit on deferred payments, £40: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £23 ls. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £15.

Weighted with £87 3s. (payable in cash) for fencing, comprising approximately 72 chains road-line and approximately 136 chains boundary-fencing between Section 8, Block I, Benmore, and Run 322c (boundary-fencing not quite on correct line).

The section is situated about one mile from the Omarama Post-office, access by good metalled road, and includes approximately 250 acres low-lying land more or less swampy, balance being of a light shingly nature with small area of sharp hillside.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(Files: H.O. 8/9/411; D.O. M.L. 3524.)

MAORI LAND NOTICE.

Maori Lands for Lease by Public Tender.

Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board,
Auckland, 28th July, 1936.

N OTICE is hereby given in terms of the Native Land Act, 1931, and the regulations thereunder, that written 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 Tuesday, the 15th September, 1936, for the lease of the land named in the Schedule hereto for a term of twenty-one years.

SCHEDULE.

OTOROHANGA COUNTY.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Block II, Wharepapa, Blocks XIV and XV, Maungatutari Survey District.

Lot 2, D.P. 7301 (being parts Wharepuhunga 14b 9b, 14b 10b, 14b 13b, Native Land Court Subdivisions: Area, 1,340 acres 0 roods 14 perches. Upset annual rental, £70.

Situated about fourteen miles from Te Awamutu. The above section is all unimproved except for some boundary-fencing. The land is of medium to light quality loam on clay and sandstone with a good quantity of rhyolite outcrops. The contour of the land is frequently broken by sidlings, small lilloocks, and the rhyolite.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of the lease shall be twenty-one years from 21st September, 1936, at the rental tendered. Compensation for substantial improvements shall be allowed to the lessee at the expiration of the term of the lease, as provided in section 327 of the Native Land Act, 1931.

2. Residence to commence within one year and to be continuous for six years.

3. Lessee has no right to minerals without license, but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, roadmaking, or building purposes.

4. Every lessee shall bring into cultivation:—
   (a) Within one year from the date of his lease, not less than one-twentieth of the land leased by him;
   (b) Within two years from the date of his lease, not less than one-tenth of the land leased by him;
   (c) Within four years from the date of his lease, not less than one-fifth of the land leased by him;
   and shall, within six years from the date of his lease, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent character (as defined by the Land Act, 1924) on first-class land to the value of £1 for every acre of such land, and on second-class land to an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land: Provided that in no case shall the additional improvements required on second-class land be more than 10s. per acre, or 2s. 6d. on third-class land.

5. (a) Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.
   (b) Lessee shall not assign the lease without the consent of the Board.
   (c) Lessee will cultivate the land in a husbandlike manner, and keep it free from noxious weeds.

(d) Lessee will keep fences and buildings in repair.
(e) Lessee will fence without any right of resort to the Board for contribution on account of the Board owning or occupying adjacent land; but this provision shall not deprive the lessee of any rights he may have against any subsequent occupier, other than the Board, of such adjacent Land.
(f) A copy of the form of lease can be inspected at the office of the Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, Wellington, or the office of the Board.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO TENDERERS.

1. The sections to be leased are subject to rental specified.

2. Every tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope, addressed to the President of the Board, and marked on the outside as follows: “Tender for lease.”

3. Tenders for lease must be accompanied by six months’ rent, lease fee (£4 4s.), an amount sufficient to cover stamp duty and registration fee, and the amount with which the section is loaded with improvements.

NOTE.—Stamp duty will be 6s. 6d. if rent is under £50 per annum, with an additional 3s. 6d. for each further £50 or fraction thereof; registration fee is uniformly 10s.

4. The highest tenderer to be declared the lessee, but the Board reserves to itself the right to decline to accept any tender.

5. The successful lessee will require to make a declaration to the effect that he is legally qualified to become the lessee of the land, and that he is acquiring the land solely for his own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person.

6. The lands are offered under the Native Land Act, 1931, and the regulations made thereunder, and lessees shall be deemed to be acquainted with the provisions thereof, and be bound thereby as effectually as if such provisions were embodied therein.

7. The successful tenderer shall pay to the Board the value of the improvements with which each section is loaded.

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS.

The land is described for the general information of intending tenderers, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make personal inspection, as the Board is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Area may be liable to slight alteration.

Tenders must be sent to the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, and must be made on the proper forms, to be obtained at the office of the Board.

Full particulars may be obtained at the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland.

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

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand held at Auckland.

N OTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court, and I hereby give notice that at the next sittings of the said Court, to be held on Friday, the 28th day of August, 1936, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates:—

Alison, John Murray, Pakotai, Contractor,
Baker, Albert Frederick, Whangarei, Taxi-driver,
Baker, Frederick William James, Tutamoe, Labourer,
Clarke, Gordon Newport, Whangarei, Roundsman,
Farrimond, William Henry, Kaitaia, Storekeeper,
Hill, Cecil Stewart, Whangarei, Contractor,
Jones, Francis Henry, Okaihau, Motor Engineer,
King, Harold Harris, Motukiore Island, Farmer,
King, Rupert Trieve, Awanui, Farmer,
Kumarich, Bernado, Kaimaumau, Fisherman,
McIlvride, Peter John, Whangarei, Retired Civil Servant,
McMath, Andrew, Whangarei, Farmer,
Munro, James Norman, Whangarei, Carrier,
Read, Mary Elizabeth, Whangarei, Restaurant-proprietress,
Schon, Charles, Whangarei, Commission Agent,
Stewart, Roy, Rawene, Garage-proprietor.

Dated at Whangarei, this 6th day of August, 1936.

A. J. CHING,
Official Assignee.