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Lessees : William Moody and Walter Byron Moody. Date of lease : 27th April, 1911. Term : Five years, from Ist June, 1911. Annual rental : £1 10s. per acre. Area of section : 14 acres. How payable : Yearly, in advance, on Ist June. To whom rent paid and when paid up to : All lessors have been paid up to Ist June, 1913. Tutuhonuku Korako has been paid to Ist June, 1915. Whether confirmed : Application being forwarded. What improvements : No provision. Section 120, Kaiapoi Native Reserve. Lessors who have .signed lease : Hoani Maaka Mokomoko, Amiria Tainui, Tieki Kona, Hariata te Karukc, Paratene te Uki, Tare Tikao, Maka Mokomoko, Hopa Paura. (Lease not before us; these names taken from draft ; presume they have signed. —-Papprill and Conlan.) Lessee : John Middleton Young, of Woodside, Kaiapoi, farmer. Date of lease : 6th March, 1893. Term : Twenty years, from Ist August, 1892. Annual rental : £12 10s. Area of section : 6 acres 1 rood. How payable : Half-yearly, in advance, on Ist August and Ist February. To whom rent paid and when paid up to : Information not at present available. Whether confirmed : Not confirmed. What improvements : Information not at present available. This information lias been taken from a draft of the lease. We have not had an opportunity of seeing the lessee, but we think a man named Clarke is now in possession of the land. —Papprill and Conlan. Sections 121 and 124, Kaiapoi Native Reserve. Lessor who has signed lease : Makarini Mokomoko Hape. Lessee : Emma Hicks, of Kaiapoi, widow. Date of lease : Ist February, 1896. Term : 121, seventeen years, from Ist May, 1900 ; 124, sixteen years, from Ist May, 1901. Annual rental : £1 7s. 6d. per acre. Area of section : 121, 11 acres ; 124, 6 acres 2 roods. How payable : Yearly, in advance, on Ist May. To whom rent paid and when paid up to : Information at present not available. Whether confirmed : Not confirmed. What improvements : Information at present not available. The above Sections 121 and 124 have by deed dated 31st July, 1905, been sublet by Mrs. Emma H cks to John Middleton Young, of Kaiapoi, farmer. Section 130, Kaiapoi Native Reserve. Lessor who has signed lease : Makarini Mokomoko. Lessee : Robert McQuillan, of Woodend. Date of lease : Lease lost. Term : Twenty-one years; about ten years to run. Annual rental : £1 7s. 6d. per acre. Area of section : 10 acres 1 rood. How payable : Yearly, in advance, on Ist September. To whom rent paid and when paid up to : Makarini Mokomoko has been paid £100 in advance from Ist September, 1909. Whether confirmed : Not confirmed. What improvements : None. Section 135e, Kaiapoi Native Reserve. Lessors who have signed lease : Wiremu Porete, Ihaia Rehu, Mere Puhewaita Kakahi, and others. Lessee : Henare Whakatau Uru. Date of lease : Ist February, 1904. Term : Ten years, from 30th April, 1904. Annual rental: £1 Bs. per acre, in advance, on 30th April. Area of section : 50 acres 2 roods. How payable : Yearly, in advance, on 30th April. To whom rents paid and when paid up to : Rents paid to all lessors to Ist May, 1911. Whether confirmed : Not confirmed. What improvements : No improvements.