Feb. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 497

National Endowment Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 2nd February, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 25th March, 1914.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., on Thursday, 26th March, 1914.

Preference will be given to landless applicants who have children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—JACOB’S RIVER HUNDRED.

Second-class Land (National Endowment).

Weighted with £1 12s. valuation for ditching and scrubbing. Land all flat and swampy; soil peaty, with heavy vegetable subsoil; situation fair; fronts Riverton–Orepuki railway-line. Distance from Colac Railway-station, school, and post and telegraph office, one mile; and distant from Riverton six miles.

The valuation for improvements must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful at the ballot.

Terms of lease may be seen, forms of application obtained, and full particulars ascertained at this office.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Westland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 29th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Thursday, 7th May, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL those areas formerly reserved for railway purposes and declared to be Crown lands by Proclamation dated 4th day of March, 1913, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 19, of 6th March, 1913, page 756, as follows:—

All that area (save and except any land at present occupied by the Greymouth–Otira Railway) in Otira and Turiwhate Survey Districts, containing about 1,064 acres, more or less, commencing at the Taipo River and extending along the southern side of the Teremakau Valley to the Otira River, a distance of 13 miles 26 chains, and having a width of 10 chains.

Also all that area in Turiwhate and Kanieri Survey Districts, containing 436 acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the boundary of Native Reserve No. 30 on the north side of Kawhaka Creek; thence along the Kawhaka Valley to the summit of the saddle; thence down the Waimea Valley and along the northern slopes of Mount Turiwhate to Rangariri Creek, and continuing along the south side of the Teremakau Valley to the Taipo River, a distance of 18 miles 12 chains, and having a width of 3 chains.

Also all that area in Waimea Survey District, containing 24 acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the southern boundary of Native Reserve No. 30, the same being at the intersection of the railway and road reserve along the coast, and extending southerly and easterly to the southern boundary of Native Reserve No. 30, a distance of one mile, and having of a width of 3 chains.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32681, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow, red, and green respectively.

H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 2nd February, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 13th March, 1914, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—TOWN OF CLIFDEN.

Suburban Land.

Open land; good soil; partly covered with gorse. Access by good metalled roads, and distant from Otautau twenty-two miles, and Tuatapere seven miles.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Springhill Settlement, Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 2nd February, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for selection on renewable lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments; and applications will be received at this office on Wednesday, 25th March, 1914.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIPAWA COUNTY.—RUA-TANIWHA SURVEY DISTRICT.—SPRINGHILL SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.