May 8. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1323

• Section 137 is weighted with £250, valuation for improvements consisting of buildings, which may be paid for in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £12 12s. 6d.; total half-yearly payments on lease, £20 14s. 6d.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

The sections above comprise part of subdivisions of Section 107, Manaia, recently purchased from the Native owners, and are situated about one mile from Solway Railway-station, and about three miles from Masterton, from which there is access by metalled roads; flat land that has been cleared and cultivated; at present in native and mixed grasses. Soil is of good quality, on shingle formation. Sections 131, 132, and 133 are watered by Upper Plain Water-race, and Section 137 at present by well and pump. The existing fences and positions of water-races are shown on plan.

On Section 137 there is a six-roomed dwelling (out of repair), washhouse, and old stable.

The Solway School is within easy distance, and Masterton Dairy Factory within three miles of the sections.

IMPROVEMENTS.

All the improvements are included in capital values, with the exception of dwelling on Section 137, valued at £250, which must be paid for either in cash or by instalments as mentioned above.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

Until the buildings are completely paid for the lessee shall keep them insured in the name of His Majesty the King to their full insurable value, and shall deposit the policy with the Commissioner.

The lessee shall, whenever necessary, properly clear from weeds and shall at all times keep open, all drains, ditches, and watercourses upon the land comprised in his lease.

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

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

Land in the Wellington Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1919.

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, Wellington, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, the 20th June, 1919.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for thirty-three years, with right of renewal for further successive periods 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, Wellington, on Wednesday, 25th June, 1919, at 10 o'clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Featherston County.--Wairarapa Survey District.--Pihauta settlement.

Section. Area. Capital Value. Instalment Half-yearly on Deferred Payment Rent on (excluding Interest). Lease.
A. R. P.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
1s 103 2 18 2,855 157 15 0 64 4 9 300
2s 113 0 35 3,100 155 0 0 69 15 0 15 3 0t
3s 168 3 30 3,255 162 15 0 73 4 9
4s 138 3 11 2,405 135 5 0 54 2 3 300
5s 133 1 11 2,560 128 0 0 57 12 0 15 3 0t
6s 70 2 0 3,570 178 10 0 80 6 6
7s 56 3 10 2,910 145 10 0 65 9 6
8s 70 0 15 3,485 174 5 0 78 8 3
9s 52 1 10 2,605 130 5 0 58 12 3

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Section. A. R. P. Capital Value. Instalment Half-yearly on Deferred Payment Rent on (excluding Interest). Lease.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
10s 52 1 0 2,805 140 5 0 63 2 3
11s 66 1 30 3,685 184 5 0 82 18 3
12s 75 2 0 4,190 209 10 0 94 5 6
13s 60 0 0 3,065 153 5 0 68 19 3
14s 74 3 5 3,755 187 15 0 84 9 9
15s 60 2 3 3,060 153 0 0 68 17 0
16s 54 3 7 2,890 144 10 0 65 0 6
17s 57 0 35 3,050 152 10 0 68 12 6
18s 57 0 18 3,050 152 10 0 68 12 6
19s 54 2 16 2,940 162 15 0 66 3 0 315
20s 64 0 34 3,420 189 0 0 76 19 0
21s 44 3 10 2,405 120 5 0 54 2 3
22s 45 3 30 2,500 127 10 0 56 5 0
25st 53 0 30 2,985 153 0 0 67 3 3 50
27s 60 2 19 3,320 166 0 0 74 14 0
28s 52 1 1 2,875 143 15 0 64 13 9
29s 53 0 31 2,985 149 5 0 67 3 3
30s 51 1 12 2,950 147 10 0 66 7 6

NOTE.-The deferred-payment instalments on Sections 1s, 4s, 19s, 20s, 22s, and 25s include payment for the buildings thereon.

• Value of buildings. † Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest for buildings.

† Section 25 is offered subject to the condition that the Crown reserves the right to grant a license for the cutting and removal of the milling-bush thereon, which does not go with the section, and also reserves right of ingress, egress, and regress for miller and his employees. In consideration of this the rental payable by the lessee during a period of two years from the date of the lease shall be £94 per annum, plus building instalments; the rent payable thereafter shall be £139 10s. per annum, plus building instalments.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Pihautea Settlement comprises the greater portion of Mr. J. O. Bidwill's well-known Pihautea Estate, and is situated in the Featherston County, in the Southern Wairarapa District, the Ruamahanga River forming the eastern boundary.

Access is from Featherston along the Martinborough and the Kahautara Roads, both of which are main roads and are metalled. The distance from Featherston to the nearest portion of the settlement is about six miles and a half, and to the junction of the Pihautea Road with the Kahautara Road (at the Pihautea Letter-box) about eight miles and a half. From the letter-box to the homestead is about one mile and a half, and the road is formed and metalled to there; the remainder of the Pihautea Road and the Hikinui Road are not formed.

From the letter-box at junction of Pihautea and Kahautara Roads it is about a mile along the Kahautara Road to the Kahautara School and post-office.

This estate has been subdivided into thirty farms, ranging in area from 45 acres up to 168 acres in area, and the land varies from flat to undulating country.

The flats along the Ruamahanga River consist of rich alluvial silt; the undulating country, further back from the river, being good black soil on a clay subsoil; and on the flat land along the Kahautara Road, good black soil on a shingle subsoil.

Most of the sections have a good water-supply, either from the river or from wells and springs on the sections. Dams could be made on the undulating country where the sections have not already got them, and artesian water has been got on different places at depths varying from 60 ft. to 200 ft.

On several of the sections there are plantations of pines and other trees, and there are also patches of native bush which afford good shelter for stock.

Where possible the existing fences have been taken for boundaries. The fences are all good, and for the most part in excellent order.

A portion of the flat land along the Ruamahanga River is subject to being flooded from the river, but every section has a portion of high ground which does not flood, suitable for building homesteads on above the flood-level.

The settlement is eminently adapted for dairying, fattening, grazing, cropping, or market-gardening.