Mar. 4.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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by sawmillers. Soil of light and shallow nature throughout, on clay and gravel subsoil; well watered. Altitude, 435 ft. to 650 ft. above sea-level. Access by formed road from Rotomanu Railway-station for five miles and a half, and thence by formed pack-track for a mile and a half, or by unformed road along Lake Brunner Sawmilling Company’s main tramway-line from Ruru Railway-station for three miles.

The owner of the improvements, valued at £80, and consisting of a five-roomed house built partly on road reserve, will be allowed one month from the date of ballot in which to remove them.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Grey County.—Waiwhero Survey District.

Section 3309, Block I: Area, 167 acres; capital value, £260; half-yearly rent, £5 4s.

87 acres Crown land. 80 acres national endowment. All flat land carrying heavy mixed bush of red-pine, white-pine, kamahi, &c., of no commercial value, with dense undergrowth of supplejack and kiki. Good quality soil of loamy nature, on sand and gravel subsoil; well watered. Situated five miles from Barrytown Post and Telephone Office by metalled dray-road.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Grey County.—Waiwhero Survey District.

Section 3310, Block I: Area, 424 acres; capital value, £380; half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

83 acres Crown land. 341 acres national endowment. About 90 acres flat, remainder low hills, steep in places, the whole carrying mixed bush consisting of rimu, white-pine, rata, and kamahi of no commercial value, with a dense undergrowth of fern and supplejack. Soil of loamy nature, on shingle and rock formation; well watered. Altitude, 60 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Situated four miles and a half from Barrytown Post and Telephone Office by metalled dray-road.

Section 3311, Block I: Area, 384 acres; capital value, £290; half-yearly rent, £5 16s.

About 15 acres flat, remainder low hills steep in places, the whole carrying mixed bush consisting of rimu, kamahi, and rata of no commercial value, with dense undergrowth of fern and supplejack. Soil of loamy nature, on shingle and rock formation; well watered. Altitude, 90 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Situated four miles from Barrytown Post and Telephone Office by metalled road.

Section 3312, Block V: Area, 255 acres 1 rood; capital value, £200; half-yearly rent, £4.

215¼ acres Crown land. 40 acres national endowment. About 10 acres flat, remainder low hills steep in places, the whole carrying mixed bush of rimu, rata, and kamahi of no commercial value, with dense undergrowth of fern and supplejack. Soil of loamy nature, on shingle and rock formation; well watered. Altitude, 90 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level. Situated three miles from Barrytown Post and Telephone Office by metalled dray-road.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

1. Term of license, twenty-one years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years, but without right of purchase.

2. Rent payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.

4. No person is eligible to hold more than one license.

5. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. license fee and a half-year’s rent. Rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is also payable.

6. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.

7. Order of selection is decided by ballot, preference being given to landless applicants, with children dependent on them, or who have within preceding two years been twice unsuccessful at former ballots.

8. Successful applicant to execute license within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.

9. Residence is to commence within four years in bush land or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, and to be continuous.

10. Improvements.—Licensee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price; within two years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, and 10s. for every acre of second-class land.

11. Licensee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.

12. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years’ continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.

13. Licensee has no right to dispose of sawmilling timber or silver-pine.

14. The right is reserved to the Crown to grant licenses to cut timber and other rights appurtenant thereto, and free right of access must be allowed to the holders of such licenses and their employees.

15. Holders of miners’ rights have right to prospect.

16. The Warden may grant mining privileges subject to compensation for improvements only.

17. The licensee has no claim to compensation on account of any injury to stock resulting from sawmilling or mining operations.

18. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

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

Land in Gwavas Settlement, Hawke’s Bay Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 1st March, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments; and applications will be received at this office and at the Town Hall, Waipawa, on Tuesday, the 6th April, 1915, up to 4 o’clock p.m.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIPAWA COUNTY.—GWAVAS SETTLEMENT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Maraekakaho Survey District.

| 43 | XIII | 108 0 0 | 6 4 | 17 2 0 |
| 44 | " | 109 0 0 | 5 11 | 15 19 6 |
| 45 | " | 108 0 0 | 5 5 | 14 12 6 |

IMPROVEMENTS.

Improvements which are included in the prices of the sections consist of fencing valued as follows:—

Block XII, Wakarara Survey District.

Section 1, £129 7s. 6d.; Section 2, £151 17s. 6d.; Section 3, £68 17s.; Section 4, £170 9s. 9d.; Section 5, £294 15s.; Section 6, £160 17s. 6d.; Section 7, £186 18s.; Section 8, £78 6s.; Section 9, £73 16s.

Block XIII, Maraekakaho Survey District.

Section 43, £44 16s.; Section 44, £27; Section 45, £17 10s.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Block XII, Wakarara Survey District.

Section 1.—Altitude, from 1,100 ft. to 1,500 ft. All open country, with patches of fern and manuka scrub. Mostly easy ridges, with small flats; has fair pasture of native and English grasses; permanent water. Distance from Waipawa by formed road about nineteen miles.

Section 2.—Easy ridges and small flats, in fair English and native grasses, with patches of fern and scrub; permanent water. Altitude, from 1,000 ft. to 1,600 ft. About seventeen miles from Waipawa by formed road.

Section 3.—Easy ridges and small flats, in fair pasture of native and English grasses, with a little scrub and mixed bush on Opokororo Stream. Altitude, from 1,100 ft. to 1,500 ft. About eighteen miles and a half from Waipawa. Permanent water.