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are level on the frontage, the remainder being easy-rising sideling land, all in good grass. The general quality of the soil is good, being a light loam on a clay subsoil. The improvements, which are included in the price of the land, are as follows: Section 78, 3¼ chains fencing on the frontage, valued at £1 6s.; Section 79, 11½ chains fencing, valued at £4 12s.; Section 80, 2½ chains fencing near frontage, valued at £1; Section 81, 2¼ chains fencing near frontage, valued at 18s.; Section 82, 10 chains fencing, valued at £3; Section 83, 4 chains fencing near frontage, valued at £1 4s.

Sections 86, 88, 91, 93, and 94 (grouped): These sections are situated to the east of and fronting Main South Road. They are accessible from New Plymouth by the Main South Road, distant two miles and a half to two miles and three-quarters. These sections consist of easy undulating and flat well-grassed land. The general quality of the soil is good, being a deep sandy loam on a light-clay subsoil. Sections 88, 89, and 93 have a little water in the stream-heads at the back boundary. The improvements, which are included in the price of the land, are as follows: Section 86, 18¾ chains fencing on the boundaries, valued at £5 12s.; Section 88, 8½ chains boundary-fences, valued at £2 10s.; Section 91, 7¾ chains boundary-fences, valued at £2 18s. 3d.; Section 94, 6¾ chains boundary-fences, valued at £1 19s. 4d.

Sections 84, 85, and 87 (grouped): These sections are situated at the junction of the Ngamotu and South Roads, being accessible from New Plymouth by the Main South Road, two miles and a half, and from the Breakwater by the Ngamotu Road, one mile and a half. The Herekawe Stream forms the back boundary. The sections comprise flat and slightly hilly land, all in good pasture, although the grass on the back portion is somewhat coarse in places. The general quality of the sections is good, the soil being a deep sandy loam on a clay subsoil, generally well watered. The improvements, which are included in the price of the land, are as follows: Section 84, 3 chains of intersecting fence, valued at 18s., and 3½ chains on frontage, valued at £1 8s.; Section 85, 8 chains intersecting fence, valued at £2; and 3½ chains fencing on frontage, valued at £1 8s.; Section 87, 44 chains of boundary and interior fences, valued at £15, garden, plantation, &c., £25. The improvements on Section 87, which are not included in the price of the land, but which must be paid for by the tenant, consist of an eight-roomed dwellinghouse, with passage, two brick chimneys (one double and one single), house built of rimu and kauri, three rooms dressed wood in ceilings, other rooms scrim and paper, corrugated iron roof, valued at £135; old wooden dairy, valued at £8; dairy-factory building, £20; calf-shed, £2; total value of buildings, £165, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £6 8s. 9d.

FRANCIS SIMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Seddon Township, Marlborough Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 28th March, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 31st day of May, 1905, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

If more than one application is received for the same section on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—STARBOROUGH SETTLEMENT.—SEDON TOWNSHIP.

HENRY TRENT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments in Southland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th March, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the village-homestead allotments enumerated in the Schedule hereto will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” on and after Wednesday, the 31st day of May, 1905.

For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the lands enumerated in the said Schedule are classed as “light-bush land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said lands for the period of three years from the date from which in each case respectively such lands are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such lands during such period.

After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded: provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

If more than one application is received for the same allotment on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

Village-homestead Allotments.—Light-bush Land.

Light-bush land, covered with bush of no commercial value, consisting of kamahi and red and white pine, fit for fencing and firewood only; undergrowth heavy; good soil, capable of yielding good grass when surface-sown. Sections 35 and 56 are accessible by good road, and distant one mile from Ti-bury Railway-siding. Sections 38 and 39 are situated about one mile and a half from Tisbury. There is a formed and metalled road to within 10 chains of Section 38. Sections 67, 68, 77, 78 accessible by fair summer road, and distant two miles from Clifton Railway-siding. Limit of holding, 20 acres.

WAIMATUA VILLAGE, INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.

9 | XXIII. | 5 1 2 | 1 7·2 | 0 4 3

Weighted with 10s., valuation for fencing.

11 | XXIII. | 13 2 0 | 1 7·2 | 0 10 9

Light bush land, covered with bush of no commercial value, consisting principally of kamahi fit only for fencing and firewood; good deep black soil; water can be obtained by sinking a few feet. Section 9 is situated opposite Waimatua Railway-siding, and Section 11 distant about 5 chains therefrom. Limit of holding, 50 acres.

CENTRE BUSH VILLAGE, HOKONUI SURVEY DISTRICT.

725 | .. | 24 0 20 | 1 2·4 | 0 14 6

Situated about two miles from Centre Bush Railway-siding, by a fair summer road. Land covered with light bush, suitable only for firewood; soil fair. Limit of holding, 60 acres.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.