APRIL 29.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Bartholomew Settlement, Wellington Land District,
open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 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 Courthouse, Levin, on
Tuesday, the 8th June, 1915, up to 4 o'clock p.m.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.— HOROWHENUA COUNTY.—
BARTHOLOMEW SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

SECTION 1: Area, 27 acres 1 rood 8 perches ; capital value,
£1,020 ; half-yearly rent, £22 19s.

Section 2 : Area, 6 acres 1 rood 1 perch ; capital value,
£230 ; half-yearly rent, £5 3s. 6d.

Section 3 : Area, 9 acres 1 rood 9 perches ; capital value,
£340 ; half-yearly rent, £7 13s.

Section 4 : Area, 29 acres 3 roods 37 perches ; capital
value, £1,110; half-yearly rent, £24 19s. 6d.; interest and
sinking fund, £30 0s. 7d.*

Section 5 : Area, 12 acres 2 roods 3 perches ; capital value,
£430 ; half-yearly rent, £9 13s. 6d.

Section 6 : Area, 12 acres 2 roods 12 perches ; capital
value, £430 ; half-yearly rent, £9 13s. 6d.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £770,
payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by half-yearly
instalments of £30 0s. 7d.; total half-yearly payment,
£55 0s. 1d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the values of the sections
comprise: Section 1—about 62½ chains of boundary and
internal fencing, pigsty, the whole valued at £86 ; Section 2
—13½ chains of boundary fencing; valued at £5 ; Section 3—
17½ chains of boundary fencing, valued at £7 ; Section 4—
62½ chains of boundary and internal fencing, plantation,
windmill, trap-shed, the whole valued at £84 ; Section 5—
27½ chains of boundary and internal fencing, valued at £7 ;
Section 6—21 chains of boundary fencing, valued at £11.

The improvements not included in the capital values of
the sections, and which must be paid for separately, are as
follows : Section 4—substantial thirteen-roomed dwelling-
house, built of totara, with four brick chimneys, iron roof,
water service throughout, windmill connection, wash-house
(detached, with copper built in), stable, and attached cow-
shed, the whole valued at £770.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Bartholomew Settlement, recently acquired from Mr.
P. Bartholomew, comprises an area of nearly 98 acres sub-
divided into six lots, and is situated between the Makomako
and Beach Roads about a mile west of the Levin Railway-
station, from which there is access by a metalled dray-road.
All the sections are level, and most of them have been
ploughed and laid down in good English grasses. The soil
is of a light nature on shingle formation. The sections
fronting Makomako Road are adjacent to the Levin Race-
course and Showground, and are within a few minutes walk
of the Horowhenua Lake, the chief pleasure resort of Levin
and district. A good road runs past the settlement and
down to the foreshore of this lake. The sections fronting
the Beach Road are directly opposite the Government Ex-
perimental Farm. Hokio Beach, the popular seaside resort,
is distant only about three miles. The settlement is eminently
adapted for fruit-growing and poultry farming. The two
larger sections are suitable for dairying. The sections not
actually traversed by the borough water-races can easily be
connected with them. If desired, the borough high-pressure
water-supply is available for laying on at usual charges, also
gas and telephone.

T. N. BRODRICK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection
on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 19th April, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 21 of the Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1913, that the undermentioned
land is open for selection on renewable lease under the pro-
visions 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 Friday, the 7th May, 1915,

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land
Board at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, a
10 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 11th May, 1915, 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 will be held at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Blenheim, on Tuesday, the 11th May, 1915, 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.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.— HILLERSDEN SETTLEMENT. —
MOUNT OLYMPUS SURVEY DISTRICT.

Mixed Agricultural and Pastoral Land.

SECTION 25, Block VII : Area, 1,459 acres ; rent per annum
an acre (approximate), 3s. ld.; total half-yearly rental,
£111 3s.

Front flats rather patchy and scrubby, but contain some
excellent land. About 300 acres up Boundary Stream
inferior; balance of section generally nice easy country,
well grassed with good tussock.

The improvements included in the price of the section
consist of boundary and subdivisional fencing valued at
£111 10s.

Weighted with £354 3s., valuation for improvements
which consist of 252 chains of fencing, 70 acres of cultivation
and scrub-cutting, and whare, which must be paid for in
cash by the incoming lessee before possession is given.

Possession will be given on the 18th May, 1915.

Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

H. G. PRICE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 25th March, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of
the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned lands
will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act
on or after Thursday, the 8th day of July, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 2, Block XIV, Kawhia South Survey District:
Area, 3,936 acres.

Section 3, Block XIII, Kawhia North Survey District:
Area, 203 acres.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands

Land in the Auckland Land District open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 19th April, 1915.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 21 of the
Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, that the under-
mentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease;
and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o'clock
p.m. on Monday, 10th May, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WAIKATO COUNTY.—
MARAMARUA PARISH.

Second-class National Endowment Land.

SECTION 53 : Area, 306 acres; capital value, £155; half-
yearly rent, £3 2s.

Altitude, 100 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Fern and
manuka country; about 50 acres level and undulating,
ploughable ; balance broken. Soil of poor second-class
quality, on clay subsoil; poorly watered by small swamps in
gullies. Distant eighteen miles from Pokeno Railway-
station by fair road.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,