Feb. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 569

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £465. Payable in cash, or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly payments of £23 9s. 8d.; total half-yearly payment, £58 2s. 8d.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £140. Payable in cash, or in ten years by twenty half-yearly payments of £9 1s. 4d.; total half-yearly payment, £62 7s. 10d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital values of the sections consist of boundary and internal fencing, yards and dip, valued as follows: Section 1A, £151 15s. 6d.; Section 2A, £115 16s.; Section 3A, £129 14s.; Section 4A, £178 10s.; Section 5A, £181 2s.; Section 6A, £264 7s.; Section 7A, £197 8s.

The improvements which are not included in the capital values, and which must be paid for separately, are as follows: Section 2A, cottage and stable, valued at £200; Section 5A, dwellinghouse, stable, outbuilding, piggery, and fowl-house, of a total value of £465; Section 6A, hut, stable, wool-shed (with wool-press), of a total value of £140.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The settlement is about three miles from Waitahuna. The nearest railway-station is Forsyth, about a mile away. The Town of Lawrence is about five miles distant. Access is by good roads. The soil is a light black loam, resting on a clay formation. A fairly large portion of each section is ploughable. Patches of light manuka scrub are scattered over the settlement. The land is mostly undulating, but there are steep faces along the gullies. The settlement is well watered by numerous creeks. The elevation ranges from 350 ft. to 850 ft. above sea-level.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Hawke’s Bay Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 8th February, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction at this office, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 30th March, 1915, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIROA COUNTY.—WAITARA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Class A.

Run No. 3, Block V: Area, 5,326 acres; upset annual rental, £33 6s.; term, twenty-one years.

Comprises open fern and manuka land; portions in native and self-sown English grasses; light pumiceous soil. Fronts Mohaka River. Elevation, from 500 ft. to 3,000 ft. above sea-level.

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Disposal.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 12, Block IX, Kaitieke Survey District, containing 6 acres 0 roods 14 perches, will be disposed of under the provisions of section 14 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, on or after Wednesday, the 21st day of April, 1915.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 5th December, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 7, Block I, Mangaorongo Survey District, Auckland Land District, containing 3 acres, will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 11th day of March, 1915.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Lands in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th January, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at 2 o’clock on Tuesday, 30th March, 1915, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

CULVERDEN SETTLEMENT.

Amuri County.—Culverden Township.

Culverden is situated in the Amuri County, sixty-nine miles from Christchurch, is the present terminus of the railway, and is part of the Culverden Estate. The whole of the township is flat, the soil being of a light and shingly nature. Water is obtained by means of wells and pumps.

Lot 35 fronts Montrose Street, about 20 chains from the railway-station. There are on this section a dwellinghouse of five rooms, surgery, two-stalled stable, harness-room and trap-shed, well, pump, and gate, the whole valued at £158 10s., payable in cash. If the section is bought on deferred payment, the improvements may be paid for by forty half-yearly instalments of £6 7s. 2d., interest and sinking fund. A freehold title for the section will not be issued until the value of the improvements has been paid.

HIGHBANK SETTLEMENT.

Ashburton County.—Corwar Survey District.

7 | II | 0 3 0 | 12 0 0

Situated in the centre of the Highbank Settlement, about six miles eastward from Methven Township and Railway-station, and about four miles and three-quarters from Cairnbrae Railway-station. Flat land, inferior soil.

STOKE SETTLEMENT.

Ashley County.—Mairuki Survey District.

8 | VIII | 1 0 0 | 25 0 0
9 | ,, | 1 0 0 | 25 0 0
10 | ,, | 1 0 0 | 25 0 0

Close to Stoke Railway-station. Flat land; good soil.

CLANDEBOYE NO. 2 SETTLEMENT.

Geraldine County.—Arowhenua Survey District.

7 | IV | 1 0 0 | 25 0 0
8 | ,, | 1 0 0 | 25 0 0
9 | ,, | 1 0 0 | 25 0 0

These sections are situated at the northern end of the Clandeboye No. 2 Settlement, about seven miles in a north-easterly direction from the Temuka Railway-station, and close to the sites of the Clandeboye Dairy Factory and public school. The land is flat, and was formerly swamp, which has now been drained. The soil rests on a clayey subsoil overlying shingle.