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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 16

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.

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 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.

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.