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is some sunken timber through the section. The section is not well watered. The improvements included in the capital value of the land consist of 28¾ chains of fencing on the east boundary, 17 chains of internal fencing, and 27 chains of ditching, of a total value of £38 6s.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

CROWN LAND.—OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Clutha County.—Rimu Survey District.

SECTION 35, Block XIV: Area, 253 acres; capital value, £130; half-yearly instalment on deferred payment (without interest), £6 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £2 12s.

Weighted with £11, valuation for bushfelling.

Situated about two miles and a half from Kahuika Post-office, which is about a mile from Caberfeidh Railway-siding on the Catlin’s Branch. Rough, broken land under heavy bush comprising rimu, matai, broadleaf, miro, fuchsia, &c. The surface is steep, but will carry good grass when cleared. The soil is a black loam, on a clay formation. Altitude, 300 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. Well watered by numerous streams in the gullies.

Clutha County.—Woodland Survey District.

Section 9, Block VI: Area, 169 acres 3 roods 24 perches; capital value, £110; half-yearly instalment on deferred payment (without interest), £5 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £2 4s.

Situated on a formed road about two miles and a half from Caberfeidh Railway-siding, and about three miles and a half from a school and post-office. The land is under heavy bush comprising rimu, miro, kamai, broadleaf, and fuchsia. The section has a good aspect and a good soil, and is well watered.

Sale posters and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Pastoral Lands in Hauraki Mining District, Auckland Land District, for License.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 14th November, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for license, under the Regulations for the Occupation of Pastoral Land in the Hauraki Mining District; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 22nd January, 1917.

The ballot will be held on Thursday, the 25th day of January, 1917, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland.

Preference will be given to soldiers (either discharged or on active service), and to landless applicants who have children dependent upon them, or who have during the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully. The application of any single man of military age may be refused by the Land Board, unless he can produce evidence of rejection from service by the military authorities.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

SECTION 2, Block XIII, Tairua Survey District: Area, 997 acres 2 roods; half-yearly rent, £12 10s.

Altitude, 300 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Broken land, about 200 acres fern and burnt forest; balance heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, rata, tawai, birch, hinau, mahoe, &c., with a dense undergrowth of supplejack, rangiora, punga, &c. Clay soil, rather poor in quality; well watered by Tairua River and small streams. Distant about twelve miles from Omahu Post-office—ten miles by formed bridle-track, remainder unfarmed.

Term of license, twenty-one years, with conditional right of renewal, and right to acquire the freehold.

Plans containing full particulars, and copies of the Regulations for the Occupation of Pastoral Land within the Hauraki Mining District, can be obtained at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the education reserves described in the Schedule hereto will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 11th January, 1917, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 325, Foxton Suburbs: Area, 4 acres 1 rood 10 perches; upset annual rental, £4.

Situated in the Borough of Foxton, the access being from Foxton Railway-station, which is about one mile and a quarter distant by formed and metalled road. Flat land, which has been in grass, but is now overrun in places with gorse, lupin, and blackberry. Elevation about 50 ft. above sea-level.

Town of Levin.

Section 7, Block XIII: Area, 1 rood; upset annual rental, £1 15s.

Section 13, Block XIV: Area 1 rood; upset annual rental, £1 15s.

Section 11, Block XVII: Area 1 rood; upset annual rental, £2 10s.

Situated in the Town of Levin, at a distance of from fifteen to twenty chains from the post-office, the access being by metalled streets. Each of the three sections comprises level land in grass, with soil of good loam on clay formation, and is suitable as a building-site.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, and lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
2. Term of lease is twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of twenty-one years.
3. Rent of renewal lease to be fixed by arbitration. If lessee does not desire new lease at end of any term, land to be leased by auction. The incoming lessee to pay the value (to be handed over to the outgoing lessee) of the improvements effected with the consent of the Land Board. Failing disposal, the land and improvements to revert to the Crown without compensation.
4. Land Board to approve of improvements proposed.
5. No transfer or sublease allowed without the consent of the Land Board.
6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.
7. Buildings on land to be insured to their full insurable value.
8. Lease will be registered under the Land Transfer Act.
9. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
10. Lessee to keep the land free from noxious weeds, rabbits, and vermin.
11. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the consent of the Land Board.
12. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.
13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Additional Conditions for Section 325, Foxton Suburbs.

14. Lessee not to take more than three crops in succession, one of which must be a root crop; after the third crop the land to be left in pasture for at least three years; at least two-thirds of the area cropped to be left in pasture at the expiration of term; penalty for breach, £5 per acre.
15. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and to yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.
16. Lessee to have no right to any minerals, all rights to which, together with rights of access for the purpose of working the same, are reserved by and on behalf of the Crown.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

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