3526
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 139

Pastoral Run in Canterbury Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 3rd September, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction at this office at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, the 12th October, 1917.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CLASS A.
(Term: Twenty-one Years, from 1st March, 1918.)
Tawera County.—Hawdon, Esk, and Okuku Survey Districts.—Lochinvar Run.

RUN 177: Area, 68,500 acres; upset annual rent, £600.
Weighted with £875, valuation for improvements comprising the cost of 1,210 chains of subdivisional fences and the half cost of 226 chains boundary fence between Mount White and Lochinvar, and two huts and sheep-yards.
There is some flat land to the east of Nigger Creek that would probably grow turnips and rape, and there are also some sunny faces fairly well grassed; remainder rough, broken, pastoral country and barren mountain-tops. Altitude, 2,470 ft. to 6,100 ft. Well watered. About twenty-one miles from Cass Railway-station, fifteen miles by dray-road to Lake Letitia, and six miles to the run boundary by rough pack-horse track.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Invercargill, 2nd August, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the undermentioned sections will be offered for sale by public auction at the Courthouse, Gore, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and section 5 (c) of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, on Wednesday, the 12th day of September, 1917, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF GORE.

Good building-sites, situated eighteen to forty chains from Gore Railway-station and post-office.

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 Southland Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 27th 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, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 24th October, 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, Invercargill, on Thursday, 25th October, 1917, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Southland County.—Tuturau Survey District.—Waiarikiki Settlement.

SECTION 6, Block VIII: Area, 657 acres 3 roods 29 perches; capital value, £2,925; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £146 5s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £65 16s. 3d.
Weighted with £73 9s. 9d., valuation for improvements.

Section 10, Block VIII: Area, 643 acres 2 roods 17 perches; capital value, £2,150; instalment of deferred payment (excluding interest), £107 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £48 7s. 6d.
Weighted with £68 11s., valuation for improvements.

The altitude varies from 630 ft. to 1,527 ft. above sea-level. All open land, flat, undulating, and hilly. Mostly good soil, on sandstone formation. Agricultural and pastoral land, well watered by small streams. Suitable for sheep and cattle, dairying, or mixed farming. The settlement is situated from seven to nine miles from Mataura.

The following improvements go with the land: Section 6, 343 chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £55 10s. 6d.; Section 10, 287 chains boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £43 5s. 6d.

The improvements which do not go with the land, and which must be paid for separately, are as follows: Section 6, 98 chains of fencing, valued at £73 9s. 9d.; Section 10, 89 chains of fencing, valued at £68 11s.

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

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