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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 44

and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 9th June, 1919.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for sixty-six years, with right of renewal for further successive periods of sixty-six 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, Blenheim, on Tuesday, 10th June, 1919, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Marlborough County.—Upper Opouri Block.

Block III, Wakamarina Survey District.

SECTION 4: Area, 383 acres; capital value, £660; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £16 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £14 17s.

About 150 acres flat and undulating country, fair soil, has been cleared of milling-timber; balance of section is very poor and shady, covered with birch bush. Well watered. Altitude varies from about 300 ft. at the front to about 2,400 ft. at the back. Distant about six miles from Flat Creek Post-office.

Section 9: Area, 256 acres; capital value, £760; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £19; half-yearly rent on lease, £17 2s.

About half of this section has been cleared of milling-timber. The section comprises about 90 acres of good flat to easy country, with a small area in grass; remainder easy to steep sidelings, stony in places, carrying mixed bush, chiefly birch. Well watered. Altitude is from 300 ft. to 1,500 ft. About six miles and a half from Flat Creek Post-office.

Section 7: Area, 282 acres; capital value, £590; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £14 15s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £13 5s. 6d.

Section comprises about 60 acres of fair to good land, flat; the balance is steep broken country, cold and shady, covered chiefly with birch bush. All milling-timber has been cleared off. Well watered. Altitude varies from about 320 ft. to 1,500 ft. Distant about seven miles and a half from Flat Creek Post-office.

Section 8: Area, 559 acres; capital value, £965; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £24 2s. 6d.; half-yearly rent on lease, £21 14s. 3d.

This section generally is very rough and broken; about one-third of area is cold and shady, balance lies well to the sun. Along the frontage is an area of about 46 acres of flat to easy country that has been burnt and grassed. All milling-timber has been removed. Well watered. Altitude runs from about 350 ft. to 2,400 ft. About eight miles from Flat Creek Post-office.

Part Section 6: Area, 184 acres 3 roods; capital value, £805; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £20 2s. 6d.; half-yearly rent on lease, £18 2s. 3d.

This section is all good country; 120 acres flat, balance easy sidelings; has been milled out and mostly burnt. Well watered. Altitude is from about 320 ft. to 550 ft. Distant about eight miles from Flat Creek Post-office.

Block II, Tennyson Survey District.

Section 2: Area, 289 acres; capital value, £675; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £16 17s. 6d.; half-yearly rent on lease, £15 3s. 9d.

About 50 acres of good flat land; milled out, burnt, and now carrying a fair amount of English grasses. Balance of section runs from easy sidelings to steep broken country, covered chiefly with birch bush. Altitude varies from 350 ft. to about 1,700 ft. Well watered. Distant about nine miles from Flat Creek Post-office.

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

H. J. LOWE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 24th March, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 24th day of April, 1919, under the provisions of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Southland County.—Otara Township.

SECTIONS 7 and 8, Block III: Area, 3 acres 3 roods 37 perches; upset annual rental, £2.

Level land of good quality, all in grass, and fenced on three sides. Outgoing lessee to have the right to remove or dispose of fencing.

Wallace County.—Town of Hodgkinson.

Sections 31, 32, 45, and 46: Area, 40 acres; upset annual rental, £20.

Weighted with £20 16s., valuation for improvements.

Practically level land, suitable for cropping or dairying, fronts two gravelled roads; two miles from Otautau.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term, twenty-one years from 1st July, 1919.
2. Right of cultivation, but no valuation for improvements.
3. No right of renewal.
4. A deposit of a year’s rent at the rate offered, and lease fee (£1 1s.), together with valuation for improvements, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.
5. Eradication of noxious weeds.
6. No assignment, sublease, or mortgage without consent.
7. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

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

Sale of Flax in Auckland Land District by Public Tender.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th March, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the Land Act, 1908, and the flax regulations thereunder, that written tenders are invited and will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 12 o’clock noon on Wednesday, 16th April, 1919, for the purchase of the present crop of flax growing on the undermentioned Crown lands.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TAURANGA COUNTY.

PART Blocks I and II, Waihi South Survey District, between the Kaikokopu and Pongakawa Rivers; upset price, £750; time for removal of flax, eighteen months from date of acceptance of tender.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. Intending tenderers are expected to visit the locality and satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relating to their tenders.
2. The position of the flax is only approximately shown on the lithograph lodged at the Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, and should any dispute arise as to the boundaries, the decision of the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be final.
3. No tender will be considered wherein a less price is offered than the upset price stated herein.
4. The successful tenderer shall use every precaution to prevent the flax from being destroyed by fire during the currency of his license, and no compensation for the destruction of any flax from any cause whatsoever on the land occupied by the licensee shall be payable by the Crown.
5. The cutting and removal of the flax will be under the supervision of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, or other officer duly appointed by him, and the manner and method of such cutting and removal of flax shall be as directed by him.
6. Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit of 5 per cent. on the amount of tender in cash, marked cheque, or post-office order; the balance to be paid, if tender accepted, in terms as stated hereunder.
7. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

TERMS.

One-third of amount of tender to be paid in cash within seven days after acceptance of tender, together with £1 1s. license fee, one-third in six months, and one-third in twelve months thereafter. All instalment payments shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum as from the date of acceptance of tender, and with the interest added shall be secured by “On demand” promissory notes made and endorsed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Tenders to be addressed “Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland,” and envelopes to be marked “Tenders for flax.”

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.