Feb. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 543

Lands in Ermedale Settlement, Southland Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Invercargill, 7th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 29th day of March, 1910, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTH LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—JACOB’S RIVER HUNDRED.—ERMEDALE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Second-class Land.

| 14 | XIII | 293 1 0 | 1,100 0 0 | (24 15 0) |
| 15 | " | 246 3 25 | 840 0 0 | (+1 14 7) |
| 18 | " | 300 3 20 | 760 0 0 | 18 18 0 |
| 20 | " | 188 1 15 | 760 0 0 | 17 2 0 |
| 21 | " | 171 1 15 | 580 0 0 | 13 1 0 |
| 24 | " | 217 0 30 | 1,200 0 0 | 27 0 0 |

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £455, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £17 14s. 10d. Total half-yearly payment, £62 10s. 4d.

†Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £20, payable in cash or in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £1 14s. 7d. Total half-yearly payment, £26 9s. 7d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Ermedale Settlement is situated five to seven miles from Fairfax Railway-station, nine to eleven miles from the Town of Riverton, and seven to nine miles from Thornbury Junction. It lies at an elevation of from 50 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level, and consists of mixed agricultural, pastoral, and dairying land of good quality, with bush on some of the sections. There are outcrops of limestone. The land is capable of being used for general agricultural purposes, and is in good heart. For dairying it is well suited.

Messrs. Harrington Bros. have a lease of a sawmill tramway easement of 1 acre 1 rood 19 perches through Section 15 for a term of twelve years from 31st July, 1904, with right of renewal for another twelve years. They also have the right to cut and remove the timber on Section 18 within three years from the date of selection.

Thirty-six acres of Section 18 and 28 acres of Section 19 have been sown in turnips and grass, the former off lea.

The crops of oats on Sections 19, 22, and 25, and the temporary coil-wire fence between the oats and grass on Section 22, do not go with the land.

Possession will be given on 1st April, 1910.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are included in the value of sections are as follow: Section 14, 40 chains of old fence, value £5. Section 15, half-value of 53 chains of gorse fence along eastern boundary, £13 5s.; and 105 chains of other fencing; value £14 19s. 6d. Section 16, half-share of 28 chains of eastern boundary-fence, £4 4s.; and other wire fences, 119 chains, £29 15s. Section 17, half-share in eastern and western boundary-fences, 83½ chains, £15 4s.; and 32 chains of other wire and gorse fences and ditch, £10 12s. Section 18, 66 chains fences, £13 4s. Section 19, 287 chains of fencing, £57 8s. Section 20, 52 chains of fence, £7 16s. Section 21, 46 chains of fence, £9 4s. Section 22, half-share boundary-fence between 22 and 23, 44 chains, £6 12s; other fencing and ditch, 57 chains, £24. Section 23, half-share of boundary-fences, 72 chains, £10 16s.; other fences and ditches, 84 chains, £26 6s. Section 24, half-share in boundary-fence between 23 and 24, 28 chains, £4 4s.; other fences and ditches, 171 chains, £43 11s. Section 25, half-share in eastern boundary-fence, 83¼ chains, £16 14s.; other boundary-fences, 41¼ chains, £9 17s. 3d.; other fences and ditches, 95 chains, £28 16s.

The improvements not included in the value of the sections, and which must be paid for separately by the tenant, are as follow: Section 14, large two-roomed hut, with brick chimney, £20. Section 19, two-story wooden dwellinghouse of eleven rooms, with pantry, scullery, bath-room, and storeroom, with detached wash-house, hack-stable, milking and buggy shed, men’s hut with chimney, hydraulic ram supplying water to bath-room, barn, large woolshed and yards, stable and stockyard, and pig-styes; total value, £455.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Rangitatau Block, Wellington Land District, open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or selection, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 14th day of March, 1910, also at the Survey Office, Wanganui, on Saturday, the 12th day of March, and Monday, the 14th day of March, 1910, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RANGITATAU BLOCK.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Patea County.—Nukumaru Survey District.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Patea County.—Nukumaru Survey District.

| 14 | I | 1,847 0 0 | 4,900 0 0 | (122 10 0) | (98 0 0) |
| 16 | V | 800 0 0 | 2,010 0 0 | (50 5 0) | (40 4 0) |

Patea County.—Momahaki Survey District.

| 10 | XIV | 738 0 0 | 2,140 0 0 | 53 10 0 | 42 16 0 |
| 11 | " | 1,603 0 0 | 3,890 0 0 | 97 5 0 | 77 16 0 |
| 12 | " | 1,032 0 0 | 2,600 0 0 | 65 0 0 | 52 0 0 |

a Interest and sinking fund on improvements, comprising felling and grassing, valued at £380, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £32 16s. 9d. Total half-yearly payment: Occupation with right of purchase, £65 16s. 9d.; renewable lease, £59 4s. 9d.

b Interest and sinking fund on improvements, comprising felling and grassing, valued at £780, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £67 8s. 1d. Total half-yearly payment: Occupation with right of purchase, £107 18s. 1d.; renewable lease, £99 16s. 1d.

c Interest and sinking fund on improvements, comprising felling and grassing, valued at £563, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £48 13s. 1d. Total half-yearly payment: Occupation with right of purchase, £101 8s. 1d.; renewable lease, £90 17s. 1d.

d Interest and sinking fund on improvements, comprising felling and grassing, valued at £134, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £11 11s. 7d. Total half-yearly payment: Occupation with right of purchase, £134 1s. 7d.; renewable lease, £109 11s. 7d.

e Interest and sinking fund on improvements, comprising felling and grassing, valued at £990, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £85 11s. Total half-yearly payment: Occupation with right of purchase, £135 16s.; renewable lease, £125 15s.

DESCRIPTION.

Rangitatau Block is situate in the Waitotara Valley, within easy distance of Town of Waitotara and Railway-station.

There are at present three roads which give access to the block. The principal one is the Puao Road, which branches off the Valley Road near Ngutuwera Creamery and Post-office. This road debouches into the Waitotara Valley