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Village-homestead Allotments in Wellington Land District

 open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326
of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned
village-homestead allotments 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 25th day of October, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MANGAHAO SURVEY DISTRICT. — MAKARETU VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Village-homestead Allotments.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Otago Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 19th July, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction, at this office, at 11 o'clock a.m., on Wednesday, the 21st day of September, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 22, Block I, Tuapeka West District, Tuapeka County: Area, 1,522 acres 3 roods 29 perches. Term, fourteen years. Upset annual rental, £8.

The run is situated about seven miles from the Town of Lawrence by a good road. The land is rough and broken, the intersecting gullies being deep and steep. Most of the area is covered with fern.

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Tautari Settlement, Auckland Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 11th July, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 27th day of September, 1910, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WEST TAupo COUNTY. — T AUTARI SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £97, valuation for two-roomed house, cowshed, stockyard, and 90 chains fencing.

Altitude, from 400ft. to 500ft. above sea-level. Undulating land; about 200 acres grass mixed with fern, balance fern land; the greater part of this section was once in grass, but is now largely overgrown with fern. Soil light loam, medium second-class quality; well watered by small streams. Situated about sixteen miles from Kihikihi by formed cart-road.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Cheviot Settlement, Canterbury Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 11th August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, and applications will be received at the District Lands Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 5th day of October, 1910.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held at the District Lands Office, Christchurch, at 11 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, the 6th day of October, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT COUNTY.—CHEVIOT SURVEY DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

• There is a two-roomed cottage on the section, valued at £60, which is to be paid for either in cash or by instalments extending over a period of fourteen years. The total half-yearly payment will therefore be £7 0s. 8d.

This section, which comprises the site on which the Cheviot Dairy Factory formerly stood, is situated on Ward Road, about one mile and a half north-westward from the post-office in the Township of Mackenzie. The land is of good quality, flat and slightly undulating, with good soil on clay subsoil.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Thirty-three years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years.

2. Rental: 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.

4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee) and a half-year's rent; also the rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January, 1911.

5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.

6. Including all other land already owned, held, or occupied under a tenure of more than one year's duration, no person may apply for more than 5,000 acres; every acre of first-class land being reckoned as 7½ acres, and every acre of second-class land being reckoned as 2½ acres.

7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.

8. Residence is to commence within one year, and to be continuous for ten years.

9. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price; within two years to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre.

10. A renewable lease is registered under the Land Transfer Act, 1908.

11. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.

12. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years' continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.

13. Lessee has no right to minerals, without license; but he may use on the land any minerals for any agricultural, pastoral, household, road-making, or building purpose.

14. Lessee may pay up to 90 per cent. of capital value of allotment in sums of not less than £10; rent to be reduced proportionately. All moneys so paid shall be repayable to the owner of the lease when it is renewed or determined. No conditions, except residence and payment of rent, are enforced when amount so paid is not less than 33 per cent. of the capital value. Any money exceeding 33 per cent. of capital value is repayable to lessee on application.