Feb. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 523

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

Otago University Endowment.—Class B.

Lot 4, part Section 132, Block III, Forest Hill Hundred: Area, 1,538 acres 1 rood 20 perches; annual rent per acre (approximate), 3d.; upset annual rent, £20.

Lot 5, parts Section 5, Blocks VI and VII, Lindhurst, and Section 132, Block III, Forest Hill Hundred: Area, 1,823 acres 2 roods; annual rent per acre (approximate), 3d.; upset annual rent, £23.

Possession will be given on day of sale.

Lot 5 is weighted with £88 4s., being half cost of 252 chains of fencing on the east boundary.

Lot 4 is weighted with £55 7s., being half cost of 184½ chains of fencing on the west boundary.

DESCRIPTION OF RUNS.

Lot 4 contains about 600 acres swamp land, which is capable of improvement by draining; balance is tussock, undulating, gravelly land, with some stunted manuka and fern.

Lot 5 contains about 723 acres swamp, which is capable of improvement by draining; balance is tussock, undulating, gravelly land, with some stunted manuka and fern.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

1. Purchaser must be over twenty-one years of age.

2. One half-year’s rent, rent for period between date of sale and 1st March, 1916, £1 1s. (license fee), valuation for improvements, and statutory declaration to be deposited by purchaser on the fall of the hammer. Rent commences from date of license.

3. No person may hold more than one run, except on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the approval of the Minister of Lands. If a husband holds a run, his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.

4. Runs classified as pastoral lands (Class A) may not be resumed for settlement. Runs classified as pastoral-agricultural lands (Class B) may be so resumed without payment of compensation. Three hundred acres of any run may be resumed for grassing-experiments.

5. Rent is payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st March and 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty days of due date, a penalty of 10 per cent. is added.

6. Term of license to be as stated hereon, with contingent right of renewal over the whole or a subdivision of the run for a similar term.

7. Licensee to prevent destruction or burning of timber, burning of snow-tussock, burning of other tussock, except in July, August, and September; to prevent growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds or plants; to keep down rabbits, and refrain from burning grass during such months as the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time determine.

8. Licensee to have no right to the timber or flax on the land comprised in the license.

9. With the permission of the Land Board, the licensee may—
   (a.) Cultivate a portion of the run and grow winter feed thereon;
   (b.) Plough and sow in grass any area not exceeding 3,000 acres;
   (c.) Clear of bush or scrub any portion of the run, and sow same in grass;
   (d.) Surface sow in grass any portion of the run.
   On expiry of license the value of licensee’s improvements will be protected.

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

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 16th February, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are 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 up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 27th March, 1916.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board at the Land Office, Napier, on Tuesday, 28th March, 1916, at 10 o’clock a.m., 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 Land Office, Napier, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1916, at 10 o’clock a.m.

Preference will be given to soldiers (either discharged or on active service), and to landless applicants who have children dependent on them or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully. Immediate possession will be given.

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY.—
MATAPIRO SURVEY DISTRICT.—OTAMAURI SETTLEMENT.—
SECOND-CLASS LAND.

• In addition, buildings valued at £50 to be paid for in cash.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £280; payable in cash, or in fifteen years by thirty half-yearly instalments of £13 9s. 9d.: total half-yearly payment, £62 19s. 9d.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £500; payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £19 10s.: total half-yearly payment, £71 9s. 6d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the prices of the sections consist of fencing, valued as follows:—

Block I.

Section 1, £191 17s. 6d.; Section 2, £154 17s. 6d.; Section 3, £121 17s. 6d.; Section 4, £187 5s.; Section 5, £90; Section 6, £135 12s. 6d.; Section 7, £176 15s.

Block V.

Section 2, £153 12s. 6d.; Section 3, £176 1s. 3d.; Section 4, £170 2s. 6d.; Section 5, £157 2s. 6d.; Section 6, £153 17s. 6d.; Section 7, £110 2s. 6d.; Section 8, £37 2s. 6d.; Section 9, £63 15s.

The improvements which are not included in the prices of the sections, but which must be paid for separately are as follows:—

Block I.

Section 2.—Four-roomed cottage, colonial oven, iron roof, brick chimney, and 400 gallon tank; value, £50.

Section 7.—Five-roomed house (two-storey) and old barn; value, £280.

Block V.

Section 3.—Cook-house (eight rooms), with baker’s oven, double brick chimney, and colonial oven, £330; stable and implement-shed combined, and loft, £150; concrete meat-safe, £20: total value, £500.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Block I.

Section 1.—500 acres. All easy rolling ridges and small flats; well watered; soil light loam on papa. Has almost all been ploughed, and is in young English grass.

Section 2.—539 acres. All easy rolling ridges and small flats; well watered; soil light sandy loam on papa. Nearly all has been ploughed and is in young English grass.

Section 3.—409 acres. All easy rolling ridges and small flats, nearly all ploughable; soil sandy loam; permanent water. About 200 acres are in young English grass, balance old pasture and native grasses.