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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES—continued.

Wellington, 1st April, 1919.
ROBERT TRIGGS, Public Trustee.

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

Wellington, 27th March, 1919.
TENDERS will be received at the office of the Chairman, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 24th June, 1919, for 51,000 bolts, nuts, and washers, and 10,000 arm-combiners.
Forms and conditions of tender may be obtained at the office of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, or at the offices of the District Telegraph Engineers at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
E. A. SHRIMPTON,
Chairman.

Public Offices closed at Noon on the 10th April, 1919.—Licensing Poll.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 1st April, 1919.
IT is hereby notified for general information that, pursuant to section 17 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, the offices of the Public Service throughout the Dominion will be closed at noon on Thursday, the 10th instant, the date fixed for the licensing poll.
D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Settlement Land in Southland Land District open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 31st March, 1919.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be opened 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, 30th April, 1919.
Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board for examination at this office on Thursday, 1st May, 1919, at 11 o’clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.
Hokonui Survey District.—Ardlussa Settlement.—Mixed Agricultural and Pastoral Land.
SECTION 1: Area, 5,031 acres 1 rood 6 perches; capital value, £2,800; half-yearly rent, £63.
Open undulating to hilly agricultural and pastoral land. Subdivided into four paddocks, the eastern boundary being unfenced. About 700 acres are ploughable; the balance is hilly tussock country. Elevation from 720 ft. to 2,050 ft. Well watered by permanent streams.
The improvements which go with this section are as follows: 938 chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing, valued at £293.
Ardlussa Settlement is situated from six miles to ten miles and three-quarters from Balfour Railway-station on the Gore—Lumsden line.
H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs in Canterbury Land District for Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 1st March, 1919.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs are open for lease to discharged soldiers under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 27th May, 1919.
Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, 29th May, 1919, at 10 o’clock a.m., to answer any questions the Board may ask.
The ballot will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Oxford County.—Esk and Upper Ashley Survey Districts.—Snowdale Runs.—National Endowment.
SECTIONS 36843 and 36846: Area, 12,023 acres; annual rental, £113.
All rough and broken pastoral country, with the exception of the Lilburn and Whistler Spurs, which carry fair tussock feed. Well watered. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 5,322 ft. With this section is included Section 36846 for a homestead-site. This latter is mostly somewhat stony flats in native grass, and has good sheep-yards on it. Access is by Ashley Gorge Road, about seventeen miles from Oxford.
Section 36844: Area, 7,670 acres; annual rental, £164.
The northern portion is steep broken country, with patches of inferior birch bush and very little feed. South of the Lilburn Creek there are lower spurs and slopes carrying fair tussock feed. Well watered. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 4,585 ft. Access is by Ashley Gorge Road seventeen miles, and by unformed road five miles.
Section 36845: Area, 15,300 acres; annual rental, £260.
About 1,000 acres flat, and about 3,000 acres undulating country, in tussock and other native grasses, the remainder very rough and broken country with patches of inferior birch bush. Well watered. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 6,347 ft. Access is by Ashley Gorge Road seventeen miles, and by unformed road one mile and a half.
The improvements that go with the land are as follows:—
Sections 36843 and 36846, 223 chains of fencing, and good sheep-yards. Section 36844, 181 chains of fencing. Section 36845, a stone hut valued at £105, and 674 chains of fencing. Some of the above fences, though on the east side of the Whistler River, and not actually on the sections, are recognized as the boundary fences between these sections and Lees Valley Block.
The lessee of Section 11, Lees Valley Settlement, has recently erected a substantial fence on the boundary between that section and Sections 36843 and 36844 at a cost of about £137, and the successful applicant must arrange with him about payment for their proportionate share, or interest thereon.
Sale plans and full particulars may be obtained from this office.
W. H. SKINNER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.