Feb. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 567

CROWN LANDS NOTICES—continued.
[Continued from page 550.]

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 9th 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, the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 23rd March, 1914.

The ballot for the section, if there is more than one applicant, will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 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.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WEST TAUPŌ COUNTY.—TAUTARI VILLAGE.
First-class Land.

Weighted with £37 for improvements, consisting of small iron house 24 ft. by 12 ft., and 17 chains fencing.

Altitude, about 250 ft. above sea-level. Level land, in old grass. Soil light loam, of medium quality; no water on section. Distant fourteen miles from Kihikihi by formed cart-road.

The value of the improvements must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful.

Full particulars may be ascertained and terms of lease seen at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

National Endowment Land in Horopito West Township, Wellington Land District, for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th 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, Wellington, 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.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.—HOROPITO WEST TOWNSHIP.
Town Land.

Weighted with £10 10s. for improvements.

Situated in the Horopito West Township, the access being from the Horopito Station on the Main Trunk Railway, which is about a quarter of a mile distant by a formed and metalled road. All flat land, felled and in grass. Soil is of a fairly good volcanic nature, on shingle and grit formation. Elevation about 2,460 ft. above sea-level. The improvements comprise clearing and stumping and a shed.

The value of the improvements must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful.

Full particulars may be ascertained and terms of lease seen at this office.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th 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, the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments; 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, Wellington, 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.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—MAKARA COUNTY.—BELMONT SURVEY DISTRICT.—PAPARANGI SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

Weighted with £231 for improvements, consisting of a four-roomed house with two brick chimneys, washhouse, stable, fowlhouses, about 36 chains of fencing, excavations, and tracks.

Situated on the Aurora Road, the access being from the Johnsonville Railway-station, which is about one mile distant by good metalled dray-road. Easy undulating land in grass, with good homestead-site near road-frontage. Soil is of good quality on rotten-rock formation. Elevation ranges from about 600 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

The value of the improvements must be paid immediately the applicant has been declared successful.

Full particulars may be ascertained and terms of lease seen at this office.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 21 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, 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 up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 3rd March, 1914.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at 10.30 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 5th March, 1914, to answer any questions the Land Board may ask; but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of the district in which he resides.

The ballot for the sections for which there are more than one applicant will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, 5th March, 1914, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE COUNTY.—WAIMATE SURVEY DISTRICT.—WAIMATE SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.