1722
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Opening Settlement Lands in Canterbury Land District for Selection.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—ASHBURTON COUNTY.—WAKANUI SURVEY DISTRICT.—VALVERDE SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings on Section 1, valued at £300, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £11 14s. Total half-yearly payment, £99 9s.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings on Section 6, valued at £955, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £37 4s. 11d. Total half-yearly payment, £130 12s 5d.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings on Section 7, valued at £290, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £11 6s. 2d. Total half-yearly payment, £75 8s. 8d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are not included in the prices of the sections, but which must be paid for separately, consist of: Section 1—a cottage of five rooms, dairy, barn, and stable; total value, £300. Section 6—dwelling-house of eight rooms, hot- and cold-water service, conservatory; outbuildings containing dairy, storeroom, and fuel-house; gig-shed, trap-shed, and men’s whare under one roof; barn on concrete piles, with cow-shed; root and implement shed, implement and cart shed: total value, £955. Section 7—cottage of four rooms and wash-house, stable and harness-room, 14-stall stable and loft, chaff-house and wool-shed, loose-box and implement-shed, corn, implement and tool shed; total value, £290.

The improvements which are included in the prices of the sections consist of: Section 1—253 chains of fencing, valued at £60. Section 2—155 chains of fencing, valued at £40. Section 3—414 chains of fencing, valued at £139. Section 4—367 chains of fencing and yards, valued at £130; about 110 acres of this section is down in turnips. Section 5—293 chains of fencing, valued at £80. Section 6—279 chains of fencing, valued at £100. Section 7—196 chains of fencing, valued at £70. Section 8—135 chains of fencing, valued at £50. Section 9—204 chains of fencing, valued at £60. Section 10—238 chains of fencing, valued at £70. Section 11—240 chains of fencing, valued at £70.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Valverde Settlement is situated about eight miles from Ashburton Township and Railway-station. It is all good agricultural, cropping land, about 50 ft. above sea-level, which has produced fine crops of cereals and roots. Most of the buildings are substantial and in good order. The settlement is well watered by water-races.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Canterbury Land District for other Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the said Act in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land which in his opinion is of approximately equal value:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the area of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF CROWN LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 71 acres, more or less, situated in Block IX, Coleridge Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Reserve No. 2802 and Rural Section No. 31026, towards the north-east by a public road along the shore of Lake Coleridge, towards the south-east by Rural Section No. 29260, and towards the south-west by a public road; as the same is delineated on the plan marked 10/1454A, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 129 acres, more or less, situated in Block IX, Coleridge Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Rural Section No. 29260, towards the north generally by a road along the shore of Lake Coleridge, towards the east by Rural Section No. 29262, and towards the south-west generally by a public road; as the same is delineated on the plan marked 10/1454A, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 261 acres, more or less, situated in Block XIV, Coleridge Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road, towards the north generally by a road reserve along the right bank of a tributary of the Acheron River, towards the east by a road reserve along the right bank of the Acheron River and Rural Section No. 29985, and towards the south-west by Rural Section No. 33084; as the same is delineated on the plan marked 10/1454B, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 23 acres, more or less, situated in Block XIV, Coleridge Survey District. Bounded towards the north and east generally by a road reserve along the right bank of the Acheron River, towards the south by Rural Section No. 26261, and towards the west by Rural Section No. 29985; as the same is delineated on the plan marked 10/1454B, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 120 acres, more or less, situated in Block XIV, Coleridge Survey District. Bounded towards the west and north-west generally by a public road, and towards the east and south generally by a road reserve along the right bank of the River Acheron; as the same is delineated on the plan marked 10/1454C, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

SECOND SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 100 acres, more or less, being Rural Section No. 31639, situated in Block VIII, Oakden Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west, north-east, and south-east by Crown land, and towards the south-west by the edge of a terrace; as the same is delineated on the