Sept. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3013

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in the North Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 23rd September, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the North Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 10th September, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash or on deferred payments, at the Petone Borough Council Chambers, Petone, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of October, 1919, at 7.30 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.

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.

Land in the Wellington Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th September, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that Section 13, Block X, Makotuku Survey District, containing 1 acre 3 roods 36 perches, will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after Wednesday, the 17th day of December, 1919.

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