Feb. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 513

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—ASHBURTON COUNTY.—CORWAR SURVEY DISTRICT.—PART LYNDHURST SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

• Buildings. † Half-yearly instalment on buildings.

NOTE.—The deferred payment instalment includes payment for buildings.

DESCRIPTION.

Section 9.—All good flat agricultural land; 43 acres in stubble; 38 acres ploughed; two belts of trees; remainder in grass. Fairly well watered by water-races. Weighted with £288 for buildings, consisting of old six-roomed house, stable, granary, implement-shed, cow-shed, and coalhouse, which are to be paid for either in cash or by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £14 10s. 11d., or out of advances. There is a motor-shed on this section for removal to Section 10. Situated about a mile from Urrall Railway-station by good road.

Section 10.—All good flat agricultural land; about 13 acres in stubble; 80 acres ploughed; remainder in grass. Fairly well watered by water-race. Weighted with £12 for a motor-shed at present on Section 9, and also with £20 for a whare. These may be paid for either in cash or out of advances. Situated about half a mile from Urrall Railway-station by good road.

Section 11.—All good flat agricultural land; about 32 acres ploughed; remainder in grass. Fairly well watered by water-race along south western boundary.

Section 12.—All good flat agricultural land. Fairly well watered by water-races. Several small belts of trees. Weighted with £150 for a four-roomed cottage on the section and with £50 for an iron motor-shed and half a granary (both of which are at present on Section 13), which may be paid for in cash or by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £10 2s. or out of advances. Situated about half a mile from Lauriston Railway-station by a good road.

Section 13.—All good flat agricultural land. Well watered by water-races. Several small belts of trees. Weighted with £1,100 for an eight-roomed concrete house, stable, chaff-house, smithy, washhouse, storerooms, &c., which may be paid for in cash or by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £55 11s. Situated about half a mile from Lauriston Railway-station by a good road.

Section 14.—All good flat agricultural land. Watered by a water-race running along the south-western boundary. Weighted with £75 for a whare, iron cow-byre, and half a granary (all of which are at present on Section 13), which may be paid for in cash or out of advances. Situated alongside Lauriston Railway-station.

Section 15.—All good flat agricultural land; about 15 acres in stubble; 1 acre in potatoes; 5 acres ploughed; remainder in grass. Well watered by water-races. Weighted with £67 for an iron motor-shed, three loose-boxes, and an implement-shed, all at present on Section 13, which may be paid for in cash or out of advances. Situated about quarter of a mile from Lauriston Railway-station by good road.

The improvements included in the capital values of the land consist of boundary and subdivisional fencing valued as follows: Section 9, 377 chains, £180; Section 10, 291 chains, £174; Section 11, 270 chains, £108; Section 12, 390 chains, £144; Section 13, 484 chains, £180; Section 14, 271 chains, £105; Section 15, 433 chains, £130.

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

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 12th February, 1920.

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, Nelson, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 24th March, 1920.

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 terms 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, Nelson, on Friday, the 26th March, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.m. The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMEA COUNTY.—GORDON SURVEY DISTRICT.—GOLDEN DOWNS SETTLEMENT.

Section 1s: Area, 1,711 acres 3 roods 8 perches; capital value, £5,930; instalment on deferred payment excluding interest, £322 15s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £133 8s. 6d. Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £525, payable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £26 7s. 3d.

NOTE.—The instalment on deferred payment includes payment for buildings.

About 240 acres flat, being generally good round homestead and the Motueka River, but stony near river-bank and poor and stony in Reay’s Valley. Balance hills; the slopes leading up Reay’s Valley and the north-eastern portion leading to Belgrove are fairly steep. The eastern side from Reay’s Saddle to Gordon’s Creek lies well to the sun, and is better grassed. The formation is yellow clay mixed with fine alluvial wash. The flats round the homestead and across the Motueka River have been cultivated.

Section 2s: Area, 1,434 acres 1 rood 32 perches; capital value, £4,270; half-yearly rent, £107 6s. 6d.

About 290 acres flat, the quality ranging from good to fairly good; a large proportion has been cultivated on both sides of the road. Balance hills, which are principally easy rolling country well grassed on the Reay’s Valley slopes, but not so good in Gordon’s Valley. There is a good deal of manuka and fern on the shady side of Gordon’s Creek. The formation is yellow clay mixed with fine alluvial wash.

Section 3s: Area, 932 acres and 2 roods; capital value, £5,270; half-yearly rent, £118 11s. 6d.

About 50 acres flat, which are of fair quality, and is subject to floods over a large portion. None of the flat has been cultivated, and is badly infested with blackberry, gorse, manuka, and tumakakuru. The hills are generally low and easy slopes of fairly good quality, and well grassed except towards the south boundary. The hills lie well to the sun; a good proportion is covered with detritus from the main range, and the soil is of better quality than on the other sections. Access by roughly formed road up Gordon’s Creek which crosses the creek twice, but a new road has been surveyed on the north bank of the creek which will, when formed, do away with the crossings.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which are included in the capital values of the sections are as follows:—

Section 1s.—229 chains of internal fences and 375 chains of boundary-fencing, valued at £453; sheep-dip, £20; sheep-yards, £40.

Section 2s.—866 chains boundary-fence and 486 chains internal fences, valued at £429 15s.

Section 3s.—230 chains of boundary-fencing, valued at £230.

The improvements which are not included in the capital value but which have to be paid for separately are as follows:—

Section 1s.—Dwellinghouse, 6 rooms (£245), implement-shed (£120), washhouse (£15), shearing-shed (£95), stable (£15), men’s hut (£25), smithy and shed (£10); total, £525. Total half-yearly payment of lease, £159 15s. 9d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Golden Downs Settlement, purchased from Mrs. A. H. Bisley, in the Motueka Valley, and is accessible by good road from Kohatu 6½ miles, total distance from Nelson being