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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17277, 15 October 1921, Page 15

TENDEES. SAMOA CP.OV.W" ESTATES. Commissioner cf Samoon Crown Estates will receive Tenders up to th® Sist DECEIIBER, 1921, for Leasing certain Plantation Properties situated is Britieii Western Samoa, as under: Applications to lease are limited to Samoans and British subjects. The period of lease will be ten years, with the right of renewal for a further period ci fiveyears at a revaluation. Tne eetates are to be taken over in their present condition, and are to be properly worked. Cases of dispute as to the state a plantation to be settled by arbitration —», one arbitrator to be appointed by each of the two. parties to the lease, and one selected by the two arbitrators so appointed. Permanent improvements as defined or approved by the Commissioner will be assessed and paid for by the lessors at the expiration of the lease. Existing buildings will be maintained by the lessee in good order and condition and handed back in a similar condition, less fair wear-ar.d-tear, at the expiration of the lease. The lessee is not to transfer, assign, or otherwise dispose of the lease, except with the consent of the Commissioner. Working horses, mules, donkeys, and cattle now running on the estates are not included in the effects of the estate for leasing, but can be made the subject for special arTang®ment for leafing or purchase. The highest or any tender for lease will not necessarily be accepted. The accepted applicant must find sureties or guarantees. Applications to iiypcct these properties or to obtain further particulars should be addressed to the Commissioner, Samoan Crown Estates, Apia, Western Samoa. No. I. MO A MOA: Small coconut estate, with dwellinghouse labour houße, newly erected, sun copra drier with copra store attached; about 2J miles from Apia; area 82i acres, cleared and planted with nuts. T?here are soma cocoa trees in two blocks. Approximate yield per annum is 20 tons copra anil 1 ton cocoa. CO to 30 head of cattle conld be permanently run. Insurance value of buildings, £BOO. No. Q. ULULOLOA:—SmaII cocoa estate, with nice dwellinghouae, out-houses, labour house, cattle-sheds, furnace cocoa-dryer and produce-shed; about 3 miles from Apia; water runs through the place. Total area of 105 acres; cultivated about 87 acres, 15 of which are young cocoa; In bearing about 22 acres—7 acres of nutmegs, 8 acres cocoa, 7 acres catch crops, such. as taro, mummyapple (papaw) < bananas, pineapple#. 30 to 40 head of cattle could be run. Insurance value buildings, £2500. No. 3. VAIPOULI. SAVAll:—Coconut estate, about 1J miles from Matautu, Savaii, with pood dwellinghouse; total area, 888 acres, all cleared, 135 acres in bearing, Vaipouli; 14S acros in bearing, Manase; 10 acres in bearing, Vaiui Beach; also 90 acres in bad condition at Mumea. Insurance value buildings, £2OO. No. 4. LESEACocoa estate, about 14 miles from Apia and 2J miles from coast; total area about 355 acres; cleared but unplanted, about 60 acres; cultivated about ISO acres; in bearing, 118 acres; dwelling and outhouses, furnace cocoa-dryer, labour house, ooooa-store. cocoa-opening shed. Insurance value buildings, £735. No. 5. TOFUA:—SmaII cocoa estate, about 20 miles from Apia and 5 ( milea from coast; good water-supply; altitude, 1100 ft; about 100 acres under cocoa, 80 acros in bearing; with a small dwellinghouse, labourhouse, cart-shed, and store, with covered in stabling. Insurance value buildingß, £4OO. No. 6. MALAEFONO: —Small cocoa estate with portion interplanted with coconuts; about 13 miles from Apia and about J-mile from coast; total area, 207 acres, of which 165 acres in bearing. Should produce annually 20 tons cocoa and 20 tons copra. Good dwelling and outhouses, labour-house, store and cart-sheds, also Gordon coooa dryer with engine in good running order. Insurance value buildings and machinery, £I9OO. No. 7. FALELAUNEU:-About i miles from Apia; total area, 165 acres; oleared, 160 acres; cultivated, 180 acres—4o acres classed as in bearing, 90 acres young cocoa. Good dwellinghouse, outhouses, labour-house, combined furnace and sun drier, fuel and fermenting sheds. Pipe water-supply from creek. Some portable railway track laid through plantation. Insurance value buildings, £1250. . ■ No. 8. FALEALILI: —On south coast, about 12 hours by motor-boat from Apia; total area about 655 acres, of which about 200 acres are palms in bearing, remainder being bush. Estate is in three portions—27o acres at Goa Goa, 200 acres at Mata'a, 180 acres at Viaula. 64 cattle, 6 horses, and a mule now running on place; trading-station with stores for produce at Goa Goa are now leased to a trading firm; plantation manager now lives above this store. There is good furnace copra-drier, two labour houses, also wliale-boat for produce-shipping. Insurance value whole of buildings, £1960. No. 9.. LATA, SAVAII:-About 4 miles inland from coast village of Salailau, Savau; total area about 12.320 acres, of which about 400 acre# are under coconuts; area in bearing about 200 acres. There are a large number of misses and old trees in the remaining 200 acres. At Ave Ave, on coast, there are about 15 acres of irregular-planted palms. 40 cattle 7 sheep, 5 horses, and 8 mules are on plaoe"; it would cany 200 cattle. There is dwellinghouse with quthouses, two labour louses, and newly erected furnacej»pradrier. Insurance value buildings, _ £7OO. No. 10. LATA, SALAILAU, SAVAII:—A trading-station at Salailau. on the coast in connexion with Lata plantatiofi; main building is two-storied, with store rooms on the ground floor, well fitted up store on first floor, and dwelling - portion on the second floor. Large yard with copra-sheds adjacent to main building, whole enclosed with post and wire fencing. Insurance value buildings, £BOO. ~ Tenders for leasing this trading-station together with the Lata Plantation will be considered. , . , NOTE—The areas given are approximate only, and are not guaranteed in the description of the various estates offered for lease. Coolio Labour to work these Estates win be available. P. Ev PATTKICK, r, 7711 Commissioner, Samoan Crown Estates.

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