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5. Creeks, drains, and watercourses to be kept open, and land to be kept clear of noxious weeds.
6. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrears.
7. Buildings and fences which are or may be erected on the land to be kept in good repair and condition.
8. No gravel to be removed from the land without the consent of the Land Board.
9. Lessee not to carry on any offensive trade on the land.
10. Lessee to give notice to the Land Board before making any improvements.
11. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
12. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Form of lease may be perused, and plans and full particulars obtained, at the Lands and Survey Offices, Napier and Gisborne.

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Wilford Settlement, Wellington Land District, open for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1918.

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 Wednesday, 27th March, 1918.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at this office at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 28th March, 1918.

The ballot will be held on Thursday, 28th March, at 2.30 p.m. at this office.

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 at least twice unsuccessfully for land.

The application of any single man of military age may be refused by the Land Board, unless he can produce evidence of rejection from service by the military authorities.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BOROUGH OF PETONE.—WILFORD SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Wilford Settlement is situated at the eastern end of the Borough of Petone, and is about one mile distant from Petone Railway-station, which is reached in eighteen minutes by train from the City of Wellington. Steps are being taken by the Petone Borough Council to establish a motor-bus service, which will serve the lots under offer. These lots are all in grass, and are generally of a dry nature, somewhat sandy, on gravel formation, between Heretaunga and High Streets, and with a heavy loam between High and Manchester Streets. The streets on which they abut are formed and metalled, with concrete kerbing and channelling. An opportunity is here afforded of securing very desirable residential sites close to school and sea-shore.

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

Settlement Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1918.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash or on deferred payments, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 27th day of March, 1918, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PETONE BOROUGH.—WILFORD SETTLEMENT.

Block V.

Block VI.

Block XI.

Wilford Settlement is situated at the eastern end of the Borough of Petone, and is about one mile distant from Petone Railway-station, which is reached in eighteen minutes by train from the City of Wellington. Steps are being taken by the Petone Borough Council to establish a motor-bus service, which will serve the lots under offer. These lots are all in grass and are generally of a dry nature, somewhat sandy, on gravel formation, between Heretaunga and High Streets, and with a heavy loam between High and Manchester Streets. The streets on which they abut are formed and metalled, with concrete kerbing and channelling. An opportunity is here afforded of securing very desirable residential sites close to school and sea-shore.

TERMS OF SALE.

The purchaser may pay for the land in cash or by deferred payments extending over a period of nineteen years. The terms are—

(1.) Cash.—One-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter.

(2.) Deferred Payments.—5 per cent. of the purchase-money and license fee (£1 1s.) on the fall of the hammer, balance by equal annual instalments extending over nineteen years, with interest payable half-yearly at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the unpaid purchase-money; but with the right to pay off at any time the whole or any part of the outstanding amount.

In either case if the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, whether of purchase-money or interest, the amount (if any) already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Titles will be subject to section 60 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

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