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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 154

Officiating Ministers for 1917.—Notice No. 32.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1917.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. FITZROY CHRISTIE CAMPBELL.
Mr. JAMES RATTRAY.
The Reverend NEIL OLIVER WHITE.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Public Service Stores Tender Board.—Supply and Delivery of Uniforms.

Wellington, 5th October, 1917.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Chairman, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 24th October, 1917, for the supply and delivery of uniforms (including head-gear, waterproof overcoats, and leggings) for letter-carriers, chaffeurs, linemen, telegraph messengers, and post-office messengers, in such quantities as may be required during a period of two years from the 1st January, 1918, to the 31st December, 1919.

Particulars and conditions of tendering may be obtained and samples seen at the office of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington; the District Storekeeper, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch; or at the offices of the Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Dunedin.

J. ORCHISTON,
Chairman.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 22nd November, 1917.

The lands may be selected for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further successive terms 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, Wellington, on Thursday, 29th November, 1917.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitotara County.—Nukumaru Survey District.—Cherry Grove Settlement.

SECTION 1s : Area, 147 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £2,110. Annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £105 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £47 9s. 6d.; interest and sinking fund, £22 4s. 5d.*

Section 2s : Area, 198 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £2,310. Annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £115 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £51 19s. 6d.; interest and sinking fund, £7 11s. 6d.†

Section 3s : Area, 232 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £1,470. Annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £73 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £33 1s. 6d.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £440, payable in cash, or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £22 4s. 5d.; total half-yearly payment on renewable lease, £69 13s. 11d.

† Interest and sinking fund on building valued at £150, payable in cash, or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £7 11s. 6d.; total half-yearly payment on renewable lease, £59 11s.

DESCRIPTION.

Cherry Grove Settlement comprises the “Cherry Grove Farm,” in the Brunswick District, Wanganui.

It is situated on Campbell’s Road, in the Waitotara County, and is about ten miles from the Town of Wanganui by good metalled roads, and about five miles from Westmere Railway-station.

It is about two miles from Brunswick, where there is a school, post-office, store, and dairy factory.

The elevation ranges from about 200 ft. to about 500 ft. above sea-level.

There is an area of about 100 acres of rich agricultural flat land, and this has been equally divided amongst the three sections; the balance of the land comprises good easy hilly country, with good valleys. The hilly portion of the farm has been very much neglected, and in many cases is overgrown with gorse and broom.

The existing fences have been taken, as far as possible, for boundaries, and very little new fencing will be required to ring fence any of the sections, and each section is well supplied with subdivision fences.

The country is well adapted for agriculture, dairying, and grazing, and is well watered by permanent streams and springs.

IMPROVEMENTS.

All the improvements are included in capital values of the sections, with the exception of buildings as detailed below, which must be paid for either in cash or by instalments spread over a term of fourteen years.

On Section 1s the buildings comprise ten-roomed dwelling-house, trap-shed, shed; cow-shed, 40 ft. by 22 ft., with concrete floor; the whole valued at £440.

On Section 2s, three-roomed cottage with veranda; wool-shed, 30 ft. by 25 ft., and yards; the whole valued at £150.

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

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

Land in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 4th October, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that a lease of the undermentioned land will be submitted for sale by public auction, under section 132 of the Land Act, 1908, at this office on Wednesday, the 12th day of December, 1917, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 14, Block IX, Chatton Survey District: Area, 199 acres 1 rood 15 perches; upset annual rental, £50. Valuation for improvements, £142 8s.

The section has been practically all cultivated, and is now in grass. It is undulating and broken, with fair soil, ring-fenced, and subdivided into two lots. Situated three miles from Waikaka Railway-station, school, post-office, and dairy factory by good gravel road, except last half a mile which is formed only.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term, twenty-one years from 1st January, 1918.
2. Right of cultivation, but not more than two white crops in succession to be taken off the land, which is to be left in best English grasses at the end of the term.
3. All noxious weeds to be cleared off and kept down to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
4. The Department will not be responsible for valuation for improvements, but if at the end of the term it is decided to re-lease the land, payment for necessary improvements (such as exist on the land at the present time) will be payable by the incoming tenant.
5. No permanent improvements to be effected without the consent of the Land Board.
6. The lease will be subject to all existing mining rights and to all future mining rights that may be granted by the Warden, and the lease will in no way restrict any such mining rights, and no compensation whatsoever will be payable to the lessee on account of any mining operations.
7. The purchaser must deposit on the fall of the hammer a half-year’s rent, valuation for improvements, and £1 1s. lease fee.

Possession will be given on the 1st January, 1918.

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