JUNE 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1581

Workers' Dwellings at Ellerslie, Auckland, for Lease, with Right to acquire the Freehold.

District Lands Office, Auckland, 7th June, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications for the undermentioned workers' dwellings will be received at the District Lands Office, Auckland, subject to the provisions of “The Workers' Dwellings Act, 1908,” and regulations thereunder, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th June, 1909.

No deposit is required with any application, but every successful applicant shall before being admitted to possession pay the amount of the first month's rent and 10s. for the registration of the lease: Provided that the successful applicant may, with the permission of the Land Board, pay the sum of £1 as part of the first month's rent, and undertake to complete the payment within thirty days, together with the registration fee.

Applicants will be required to appear before the Land Board, at the District Lands Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, the 30th day of June, 1909, at 2 o'clock p.m., or at 7 o'clock p.m., to answer any questions or produce such evidence as the Board deems necessary.

The ballot for the dwellings, if there is more than one approved applicant for the same dwelling, will be held at the District Lands Office, Auckland, on Thursday, the 1st day of July, 1909, at 2 o'clock p.m. Immediate possession will be given.

Plans and copies of the regulations may be obtained on application at the District Lands Office, Auckland.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—LAWRY SETTLEMENT.—ELLERSLIE.

Workers' Dwellings.

OPEN for lease for a period of fifty years, with right of renewal for further term of fifty years, or option of acquiring the freehold, in modes shown hereunder:—

Rents include amounts payable for fire insurance and local rates. The water rate is fixed at the minimum, and consumers exceeding the minimum quantity of water will pay extra rate direct to the Town Board.

The dwellings are complete with every convenience. Those on Sections 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28 contain four rooms; the remainder contain five rooms.

The modes of acquiring the freehold are as follow:—

Mode A.—By payment in cash of the capital value of the dwelling (including the land) at any time not less than twenty-five years from the date of the lease. Rent during term of lease to be at the rate of 5 per cent. on the capital value.

Mode B.—(a.) By monthly payments over a period of thirty-two years, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the capital value.

(b.) By monthly payments over a period of forty-one years, at the rate of 6½ per cent. per annum on the capital value.

Mode C.—By monthly payments of rent at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value of the dwelling, and taking out an insurance policy on the life of the applicant with the Government Insurance Commissioner for the amount of the capital value of the dwelling.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands, Wellington, 1st June, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the lease of the undermentioned land having been forfeited by resolution of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

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