1036
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Wallace County.—Aparima Hundred.

Section 10, Block V: Area, 195 acres 0 roods 8 perches. Capital value, £350. Instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £17 10s. Half-yearly rent on lease, £7 17s. 6d. Weighted with £15, valuation for clearing and fencing.

Hilly land, but ridges are fairly easy. Fair soil, on clay subsoil; covered with mixed bush of no commercial value, mostly all old sawmill workings; some small patches swept by fire have been sown in grass; well watered by permanent streams. Suitable for dairying when cleared and grassed. Situated about two miles and a quarter from Otatau Railway-station—fifteen chains formed, balance gravelled road.

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

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 8th April, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 12th June, 1918, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.

Takaka County.—Takaka Survey District.

SECTION 49, Square 8, Block XV: Area, 55 acres; upset half-yearly rent, £3.

Nearly all flat land; about 20 acres is low-lying and swampy, but could be improved by draining; partly covered with fern and grass. Soil in parts light and stony, but well suited for pastoral purposes; well watered and good aspect. Three miles by dray-road from Upper Takaka Post-office.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. A half-year’s rent at rate offered, and lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), to be paid on fall of hammer.
2. Terms of lease, twenty-one years from date of sale, without right of renewal.
3. No transfer or sublease allowed without the consent of the Land Board.
4. Lessee to cultivate and improve land, and keep it clear of weeds. Creeks, drains, and watercourses to be kept open.
5. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrears.
6. Buildings on land to be kept in good order, repair, and condition.
7. No gravel to be removed from the land without the consent of the Land Board.
8. Lessee will not carry on any offensive trade.
9. Consent of the Land Board to be obtained before making improvements.
10. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
11. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

F. A. THOMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 8th April, 1918.

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, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 20th May, 1918.

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, New Plymouth, on Thursday, 23rd May, 1918, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—STRATFORD COUNTY.—HUIROA SURVEY DISTRICT.—CROYDON SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

• Buildings. Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £340; payable in cash, or in fourteen years by half-yearly instalments of £17 3s. 5d. Total half-yearly instalment, £82 19s. 8d.

† Buildings. Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £260; payable in cash, or in ten years by half-yearly instalments of £16 16s. 9d. Total half-yearly instalment, £76 2s. 6d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

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

Section 1s.—About 253 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing valued at £350 (fence on road frontage not in very good order).

Section 2s.—About 76 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing, valued at £113.

Section 3s.—About 80 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing, valued at £111.

Section 4s.—About 20 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing, valued at £30.

Section 5s.—About 33 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing, valued at £41.

Section 6s.—About 120 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing, valued at £170.

Section 7s.—About 180 chains sheep-proof post-and-wire fencing, valued at £265.

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

Section 1s.—Homestead of six rooms, with bathroom, &c., wash-house, and two small sheds, and a cow-shed 60 ft. by 12 ft.; of a total value of £340.

Section 7s.—A small dwellinghouse and shed, cow-shed, also wool-shed; of a total value of £260.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Croydon Settlement is situated on the Croydon Road, about a mile and a half from Waipuku Railway-station, on the New Plymouth—Wellington Railway, and about one mile and a quarter from a creamery. The land is nearly all fit for dairying, and about seven-eighths of the settlement is ploughable; well watered, but the beds of some of the streams are a little soft. The fencing is generally good sheep-proof fencing. Some now too close to the sectional boundaries to provide good paddocks will require shifting. Soil is a volcanic loam of fair quality, a little light in places. About 38 acres in Section 1s have not been laid down in grass after turnips. Some timber is lying about; but is more an asset than a detriment. In Section 4s 35 acres and 20 acres in Section 5s are in standing bush, which is light, and the land of good quality. Some of the land has been resown in grass quite recently. Climate moist and favourable for the growth of pasture. Altitude, about 800 ft. above sea-level.

NOTE.—Tenants will be responsible for local rates, commencing from the date of allotment of the sections.

The present temporary road through Sections 6s and 7s must be left open by the selectors thereof until the Manganui Road is formed.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.