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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Locality and Description.

Situated at the back of Small Grazing-run No. 15; accessible by unformed road; about 18 acres cleared; remainder bush, principally birch, with a few rimus, matai, and tawa; soil good in the valleys, but the balance of the land is poor, very rough, and precipitous; altitude from 200 ft. to 3,000 ft. About three miles and a half from Manaroa Post-office.

Terms of license can be seen and full particulars obtained at this office.

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction, for terms of twenty-one years without right of renewal, at this office on Friday, 10th April, 1914, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

Southland County.—Invercargill Hundred.

Weighted with £10 13s. 6d., valuation for fencing.

Heavy swamp land, adjoining a school and situated two miles from Mill Road.

Southland County.—Waikawa Survey District.

| 16 | II | 7 0 22 | 2 0 0 |

Weighted with £60 10s., valuation for cottage, garden, and fences.

With exception of ¼-acre, section is in natural state (bush). Adjoins school, and is about half a mile from Waikawa.

Southland County.—Town of Limehills.

| 11 | XIX | 0 2 0 | 1 0 0 |

Weighted with £1, valuation for fencing.

| 16 | VI | 2 1 19 | 2 5 0 |

Weighted with £4, valuation for fencing.

| 18 | XVII | 0 1 0 | 0 10 0 |

Weighted with 10s., valuation for fencing.

Southland County.—Town of Winton.

| 12 | XVIII | 0 0 33 | 1 5 0 |

Weighted with £1 15s., valuation for fencing.

| 15 | XVII | 0 1 0 | 1 0 0 |

Weighted with £3 12s., valuation for fowlhouse and fencing.

| 15 | XX | 0 1 0 | 1 5 0 |

Weighted with 10s. 6d., valuation for fencing.

Southland County.—Town of Gore.

| 12 | XX | 0 1 18 | 1 10 0 |

Weighted with £81, valuation for cottage, cow-byre, and fencing.

Southland County.—Town of Lumsden.

| 4 | VII | 0 1 0 | 1 0 0 |

Weighted with £40, valuation for washhouse, stable, and fencing.

| 15 | XII | 0 1 0 | 0 10 0 |

Weighted with £40, valuation for byre, chaffhouse, fencing, &c.

| 4 | XII | 0 1 0 | 1 5 0 |

Weighted with £3, valuation for fencing.

| 6 | XII | 0 1 0 | 0 15 0 |

Weighted with £3, valuation for fencing.

Wallace County.—Town of Waimatuku.

| 5 and 6 | III | 0 2 0 | 0 10 0 |

Weighted with £7 2s. 6d., valuation for cow-byre and fencing.

Abstract of Conditions of Lease.

1. Possession will be given on 1st May, 1914, and the term of the lease will commence from 1st July, 1914.

2. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and rent for the broken period between the 1st May, 1914, and the 30th June, 1914, lease and registration fees, and valuation for improvements, to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

3. The term of the lease is twenty-one years without right of renewal.

4. At the end of term lease to be offered by auction for further term of twenty-one years at rent to be fixed by arbitration, the incoming lessee to pay the value of the improvements, which is to be handed over to the outgoing lessee.

5. No assignment or sublease without consent.

6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.

7. Consent of the Land Board to be obtained before subdividing, erecting any buildings, or effecting other improvements.

8. Lease will be registered under the Land Transfer Act.

9. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

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

Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th January, 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, and amendments, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m., on Monday, the 23rd February, 1914.

The ballot for the sections for which there are more than one applicant will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, the 26th February, 1914, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

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.—PIAKO COUNTY.—WAITOA SURVEY DISTRICT.—BALACHRAGGAN SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 25.—Open land, on which manuka has been cut but not burnt; a little rough feed. 19 chains boundary-fencing and 9½ chains boundary-drain, valued at £12 (half-share), go with the section. Four miles and a half from Waitoa Railway-station by formed road.

Section 31.—24 acres high manuka, balance open land on which manuka has been cut but not burnt; a little rough feed. 20 chains boundary-fencing, and 10 chains boundary-drain, valued at £13 (half-share), go with the section. Four miles and a half from Waitoa Station by formed road.

Terms of lease may be seen and forms of application obtained at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Milling-timber in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the right to cut and remove the timber on the undermentioned Crown lands will be offered for sale by public auction in one lot at this office at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 17th March, 1914, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Timber Regulations thereunder.