3938
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 142

Open, good-quality grass land, particularly level. Suitable for building-site. Frontage to main road opposite Glenham Railway-station, and adjoins dairy factory.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

The purchaser may pay for the land in cash or by deferred payments extending over a period of nineteen years. The terms are—(1.) Cash: One-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter. (2.) Deferred payment: Five per cent. of the purchase-money, and license fee (£1 1s.), on the fall of the hammer; balance by equal annual instalments extending over nineteen years, with interest payable half-yearly at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the unpaid purchase-money, but with the right to pay off at any time the whole or any part of the outstanding amount. In either case if the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, whether of purchase-money or interest, the amount already paid shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Title will be subject to the restrictions imposed by section 60 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

Full particulars, including sale plans, may be obtained at this office.

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

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 7th December, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction at this office on Thursday, 22nd February, 1917, at 11 a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.
Suburban Land.—Town of Menzies Ferry.

All first-class dairying land, situated within two miles by good gravelled roads from Edendale, Wyndham, and Menzies Ferry dairy factories. The improvements consist of fencing.

Rural Land.—Campbell Hundred.

Section 41, Block VI: Area, 31 acres 0 roods 32 perches; upset price, £64.

Wet, swampy section; when drained would be suitable for dairying. Adjoins Woodend Township on the south.

TERMS OF SALE.

The purchaser may pay for the land in cash, or by deferred payments extending over a period of nineteen years. The terms are—(1) Cash: One-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter. (2.) Deferred payment: Five per cent. of the purchase-money, and license fee (£1 1s.), on the fall of the hammer; balance by equal annual instalments extending over nineteen years, with interest payable half-yearly at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the unpaid purchase-money, but with the right to pay off at any time or any part of the outstanding amount.

The valuation for improvements must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

If the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, whether of purchase-money or interest, the amount already paid shall be forfeited, and the contract for sale of the land be null and void.

Titles will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

Full particulars, including sale plans, may be obtained at this office.

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 12th December, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of fourteen years, without right of renewal, at this office on Tuesday, 20th February, 1917, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—EDUCATION RESERVE.

Run No. 327c and Sections 5 and 6, Block XI, Wakaia Survey District: Area, 4,932 acres; upset annual rental, £151.

Weighted with £172, valuation for fencing.

One hundred and fifty acres of good level land have been cultivated, the balance (with the exception of 80½ acres of manuka scrub) is hilly country in its native state, lying well to the sun. It is open tussock land, free from snow, and well pastured. Situated by good, level, gravelled road, ten miles from Waikai Railway-station.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, lease and registration fee, and valuation for improvements to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. The term of the lease will be fourteen years from 1st March, 1917, without right of renewal.

3. The lessee to pay all rates and taxes.

4. The Land Board reserves the right to lay off roads through the run where required.

5. The lessee to be allowed (with the consent of the Land Board) to cultivate for station purposes only, but not for sale, a reasonable area, provided that not more than one white crop and one green crop be taken off the land; such land to be then laid down with good and sound grass and clover seeds of the descriptions and proportions usually sown in the district and most suitable for the land, and to remain in grass for a period of three years, after which period the same process of cultivation may be repeated. All such cultivation to be subject to inspection by the lessor or his agent.

6. Lessee to have the right to any bush on the run for fencing and firewood, but not for sale.

7. Three months before the expiration of the lease a valuation to be made by arbitrator of all improvements, consisting of necessary buildings and fencing, the amount of such valuation to be payable by the incoming to the outgoing lessee. In the event of the lessee desiring to effect improvements (fencing and buildings) in addition to those already on the land, it will be necessary to obtain the Land Board’s permission, otherwise such improvements will not be made a subject of valuation.

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

9. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

Possession will be given on 1st March, 1917.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

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

Land in Otago Land District for Sale to Owners of Adjoining Lands.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 19th September, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the land described in the Schedule below, being land formerly reserved for railway purposes, will be sold to the owners of adjoining lands, in terms of section 131 of the Land Act, 1908, on or after Thursday, 28th December, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TUAPEKA COUNTY.—BEAUMONT SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTION 40, Block III .. .. .. Area, 0 2 28
,, 41 ,, .. .. ,, 4 0 25

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.