MAR. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 741

Officiating Ministers for 1939.-Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1939.
PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:-

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Alexander Kernohan, M.A., B.D.
The Reverend Harold Walter Turner, M.A.
Seventh Day Adventists.
Pastor Reginald James Burns.
Pastor Harold James Meyers.
The Ringatu Church.
The Reverend Hori Ngawai.
The Reverend Waiti Tamati.
The Reverend Kenedy Wiremu.
G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.
CROWN LANDS NOTICE.
Suburban Land in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.
Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1939.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the Lands Office, Te Kuiti, on Monday, 24th April, 1939, at 11.30 o'clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SUBURBAN LAND.
Waitomo County.-Otanake Survey District.-Te Kuiti Borough.
SECTION 11, Block IV : Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £110. Area subject to slight alteration.
The value of the improvements, comprising grassing, road boundary fencing, and half-share in boundary fencing, is included in the upset price of £110.
This is a level section suitable for building purposes or grazing a cow. It has a frontage to William Street, and is approximately one and a quarter miles from Te Kuiti Post-office, School, and Railway-station. Access is by good metalled road; town water-supply available.
Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.
K. M. GRAHAM, Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 7/581/188 ; D.O. 20/53.)
Education Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.
District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, 21st March, 1939.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Education Reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 27th April, 1939, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies Leases Act, 1908.
SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.-WYNDHAM SURVEY DISTRICT. SECTIONS 10 to 13, Block X : Area, 2,893 acres 2 roods 23 perches. Upset annual rental, £100.
Weighted with £397 10s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising boundary and subdivisional fencing, wool-shed and hut.
This property is situated ten miles from Wyndham Railway-station, four miles and a half from Glenham School and Dairy Factory by good metalled road to within one mile of sections, thence partly formed road only which might be difficult in wet weather. All hilly to undulating land rising to an altitude of 700 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level; about 900 acres is capable of cultivation. Some 600 acres is in fair pasture, principally fescue, 50 acres in bush and scrub, balance in natural state, parts of which have been surface sown where fern has been burned. The whole property is well watered by permanent streams. Sub-divided into five paddocks by fences, gorse hedges, and creek boundaries.
Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Possesion will be given on the day of sale.
2. Six months' rent at the rate offered and rent for the broken period, lease, and registration fees (£2 2s.) must be deposited on acceptance of bid.
3. Term of lease : Twenty-one years, without right of renewal.
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 yeild 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 the 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 on the expiration or sooner determination of the lease now offered the land will again be offered for lease, either in one lot or in two or more subdivisions, and the new lease or leases so offered for disposal will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant or tenants 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 or tenants shall be paid to the original lessee without any deduction except for rent or other payments in arrear.
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. Lease liable to termination if conditions are violated.
    Form of lease may be perused and any further particulars required may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.
    THOS. CAGNEY, Commissioner of Crown Lands.
    (H.O. 20/962; D.O. E.R. 326I.)
    MAORI LAND NOTICE.
    Tenders for Leases in the Otorohanga Native Township.
    Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, 14th March, 1939.
    NOTICE is hereby given in terms of the Native Townships Act, 1910, 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 in the afternoon on Friday, the 16th day of June, 1939, for leases of the undermentioned sections for terms of twenty-one years with right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years.