June 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1545

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease and mortgage fees, deposit in reduction of improvement loading, and proportionate part of insurance premium on buildings.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.

SECTION 12, Block XI: Area, 328 acres. Capital value, £160. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 4s.

Weighted with £183 for improvements, comprising old dwelling, cow-shed, 120 chains fencing, 148 acres felled and burned, 30 acres broken from natural state. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £103, the balance may be secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of fifteen years with interest at the rate ruling as at date of selection. The costs (£2 9s.) for preparation of the mortgage must be paid immediately an application is declared successful.

A grazing property on which a limited amount of dairying could be carried on, situated on the Mokauiti–Aria Road, within 200 yd. of the Onaio Post-office and School, twenty-four miles from Waimiha Railway-station, and six miles from the Aria Dairy Factory and Saleyards; access is by metalled road from Waimiha. The soil is loam resting on clay and ryolite formation and is watered by creeks and springs. About 30 acres fair pasture, 178 acres felled and grassed but reverted to second growth, 150 acres in natural state; subdivided into five paddocks.

(H. O. 34/287; D.O. R.L. 269.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for four years.*)

(Native Land Settlement.)

SECTION 1, Block IV: Area, 773 acres. Capital value, £600; half-yearly rent, £15.

• After payment of the required deposit an exemption from payment of rent will be allowed for a period of four years provided improvements to the value of £50 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £620 for improvements, comprising dwelling, outbuildings, 390 chains fencing, bridges, 300 acres felled and grassed. This sum is payable in cash or may be secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of thirty years with interest at the rate ruling as at date of selection. Costs of preparation of the mortgage (£3 19s.) must be paid immediately an application is declared successful. A remission of interest payable under the mortgage will be allowed for a period of three years provided the improvements required to gain the rental exemption are effected.

A grazing farm on which a limited dairy herd could be milked, situated on the Pukerimu Road, five miles from Kopaki Post-office, School, Railway-station, Saleyards, and fifteen miles from Te Kuiti Dairy Factory; access is by metalled road from Kopaki. The soil is light loam resting on part clay, pumice, and ryolite formation; watered by springs and streams. The property, which is subdivided into eight paddocks, comprises 200 acres fair pasture, 100 acres felled and grassed, and 473 acres in natural state. About 400 to 500 acres are ploughable. Ragwort is prevalent.

(H.O. 31/189; D.O. O.R.P. 777.)

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 22nd June, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, 4th August, 1937, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Southland County.—Town of East Winton.

SECTION 23, Block VII: Area, 9 acres 3 roods 38 perches. Upset annual rental, £7.

Weighted with the sum of £35 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, consisting of 15 chains of 4 in. by 3 in. tile drains, 1 chain of open ditch, 45 chains of gorse and wire boundary-fencing, and 5 chains of road-boundary fencing.

A good, level section situated one mile from Winton School Railway-station, and Post-office, and within two miles of dairy factory.

Wallace County.—Wairio Survey District.—Town of Ohai Extension No. 9.

Section 2: Area, 1 acre. Upset annual rental, £2 10s. Weighted with £2 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising framework of hut 27 ft. by 9 ft. with iron roof.

An undulating section, situated close to Ohai Railway-siding, suitable for a building-site. Covered in manuka scrub.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

1. The lease will confer upon the lessee surface rights only.
2. The lessee shall have no claim for compensation or otherwise against the lessor or any other person or persons or body corporate, whomsoever or whatsoever, for any loss which the lessee may sustain on account of mining operations carried on below the surface of the demised land or lands adjoining.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the day of sale.
2. Six months’ rent at the rate offered and rent for the broken period, weighting for improvements, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), must be deposited on acceptance of bid.
3. Term of lease—twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further similar terms at rents on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.
4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges, and yield up all improvements in good repair and condition at the expiration of the lease.
6. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.
7. Lessee not to transfer, mortgage, sublet, or subdivide without consent of the Land Board.
8. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without consent of the Land Board.
9. 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.
10. Lease liable to termination if conditions are violated.
11. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
12. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.

Form of lease and full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

THOS. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 9/221 and 25/767; D.O. E.R.s 2278 and 2889.)