AUG. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3201

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, together with rent for the broken period from the date of the sale to the 31st December, 1917, and lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. The term of the lease is twenty-one years, without right of renewal.

3. At the end of term, lease to be offered at auction for further term of twenty-one years, at rent to be fixed by arbitration, the incoming lessee to pay the value of improvements, which is to be handed over to the outgoing lessee.

4. No transfer or sublease allowed without consent of Land Board.

5. Interest at rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.

6. Consent of Land Board to be obtained before erecting any building or cutting up or subdividing the allotments.

7. Lease will be registered under the Land Transfer Act.

8. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions violated.

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

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 1st August, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 3rd September, 1917.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further successive periods of thirty-three years, and a right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 5th September, 1917, at 10 a.m. o’clock.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Eltham County.—Kaupokonui Survey District.—Parkes Settlement.

• Buildings. Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £63, payable in cash, or in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £5 9s.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £48 4s.

† Buildings. Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £175, payable in cash, or in ten years by half-yearly instalments of £11 6s. 9d.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £66 13s. 9d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital value of the sections are as follows:—

Section 1s.—28 chains of rough wire fencing, £7; 57 chains of live hedge, £113 13s. 2d.; two creek crossings, £6: total, £126 13s. 2d.

Section 2s.—63 chains of live hedge, £111.

Section 3s.—63 chains of live hedge and two creek crossings, £119 5s.

Section 4s.—74 chains of live hedge and one creek crossing, £134 12s.

Section 5s.—74 chains of live hedge and two creek crossings, £137 15s.

Section 6s.—98 chains of live hedge, 48 chains wire fencing, and two creek crossings, £118 16s.

Section 7s.—38 chains of wire fencing, 98 chains of live hedge, and two creek crossings, £133 8s.

The following improvements are not included in the capital value of the sections, and have to be paid for separately, as follows:—

Section 1s.—Two-roomed lean-to and rough sheds, £63.

Section 6s.—Four-roomed house and two rough sheds, £175.

There is a small plantation around the former, and a plantation and orchard around the latter house.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

This settlement is situated on the Eltham–Opunake and Palmer roads, which are good metalled highways: about one mile from Kaponga Township and about eight miles from Eltham Railway-station. When the Te Roti – Opunake Railway (now under construction) is completed, the block will be about two miles from a railway-station on Palmer Road. Except for the gullies, which are about 20 ft. deep, the land is all flat and ploughable, with very few stumps requiring removal. Having been used mostly for fattening purposes, the land is in good heart. There is grass through the patches of shelter bush, and the streams are clear permanent water and generally safe for stock. Every alternate boundary is a good live hedge of sufficient height to be of value for shelter.

There is a dairy factory at Kaponga, and others in the surrounding districts. The live hedges above referred to are generally boxthorn, with a little seedless gorse and barberry in places.

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

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Canterbury Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 31st July, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 4th September, 1917.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for sixty-six years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years and a right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, 6th September, 1917, at 10 o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Malvern County.—Rolleston Survey District.

SECTIONS 36811, 36812, and 36813, Block IX: Area, 252 acres 1 rood 27 perches; capital value, £1,770; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £88 10s.; half-yearly rent, £35 8s.

All open, flat, agricultural land; light shingly soil, watered by water-races; 394 ft. above the sea-level. Access by good formed roads. Distance from Christchurch about twenty-two miles, and a quarter of a mile from Aylesbury Railway-station on the Christchurch–Springfield line of railway.

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

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.