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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

Section 75, Block VI: Area, 6 acres 0 roods 16 perches; upset price, £65.
Weighted with £345, valuation for improvements comprising two four-roomed houses, wash-house, storeroom, and outhouses.

Section 81, Block VI: Area, 1 acre 3 roods 5 perches; upset price, £20.
Weighted with £145, valuation for improvements comprising six-roomed house, outhouses, fencing, garden, and orchard.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The land mentioned in the Schedule above comprises part of the old State sawmill-site. It is situated close to Kakahi Railway-station, and consists of flat and undulating land of good quality, the soil being a black loam on pumice formation. Most of the sections are in grass. Kakahi is the centre of a sawmilling district.

The owner of the improvements (if any) on Section 58 will be allowed one month from date of sale in which to remove them.

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 and the whole value of the improvements 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, the whole value of the improvements, and the 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 dates, 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 Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.

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, 11th March, 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, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 13th May, 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 Drill Hall, Dannevirke, on Tuesday, the 18th May, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Akitio County.—Block VII, Mount Cerberus Survey District, and Block I, Waimata Survey District.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital values of the sections comprise fencing valued as follows: Section 1s, £166; Section 2s, £299; Section 3s, £190; Section 5s, £134; Section 6s, £95; Section 7s, £116.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Akitio Settlement is situated on the Dannevirke-Akitio coach-road, about thirty-nine miles from Dannevirke. The road is metalled for thirty-three miles to Ti-tree Point, and from there to the settlement and through to Akitio it is formed and used for heavy motor traffic though unmetalled. There is a daily motor and mail service from Dannevirke to Ti-tree Point, which contains a school, a post and telegraph office, and a store, and a tri-weekly coach and mail service past the settlement from Ti-tree Point to Akitio. The settlement is six miles from Ti-tree Point and some twelve miles from Akitio and the coast. Access may also be obtained by means of the Pahiatua-Pongaroa Road.

The property consists of good undulating grazing-country suitable for stock-raising. The soil is of fair to good quality, on sandstone and papa formation. Each section contains a good homestead-site and is well watered. Elevation ranges from 80 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

Areas of sections are subject to slight alteration.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s.—Practically all in grass. Contains a small patch of shelter bush of from 1 to 2 acres.

Section 2s.—220 acres good grass, 20 acres mixed bush, balance mixed manuka scrub and grass. The bush consists chiefly of large kahikatea, with tawa, totara, &c.

Section 3s.—450 acres grass, balance manuka scrub.

Section 5s.—400 acres grass, balance manuka scrub and heather.

Section 6s.—6 acres mixed bush; balance grass, rushes, and patches of heather. The bush comprises totara, kahikatea, matai, &c.

Section 7s.—Undulating to steep country, covered with grass, rushes, and heather; about 100 acres of scattered heather land of little value in its present state.

SPECIAL CONDITION.

The bush on Sections 1s, 2s, and 6s is not to be cut or destroyed in any manner without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

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

Pastoral Run in Otago Land District for License to Discharged Soldiers.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Dunedin, 21st March, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run is open for selection by discharged soldiers, in terms of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments. Applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 24th May, 1920.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, 27th May, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

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

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.—CLASS A.

Ida Valley Run.—Vincent County.—Manor, Manorside, and Tiger Hill Survey Districts.

Run 587: Area, 20,900 acres; half-yearly rent, £130; term, twenty-one years.

Weighted with £373 17s., valuation for improvements consisting of fencing and yards.

The run is situated about fourteen miles from Omakau Railway-station; access by good road from railway; well watered. Altitude, 1,450 ft. to 3,400 ft. above sea-level. General aspect northerly. Low country bare, but good tussock and native grasses on back country. Towards the back boundary there is a certain amount of danger from heavy snow in winter.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

ROBT. T. SADD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.