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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 12

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1922, 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 District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rangitikei County.—Hautapu and Ohinewairua Survey Districts.

SECTION 15, Block I, Hautapu Survey District, and Sections 34 and 35, Block XIII, Ohinewairua Survey District: Total area, 390 acres 0 roods 5 perches; capital value, £1,670; half-yearly rent, £33 8s.

Situated on the Otaihape Stream, three miles from Taihape by a formed dray-road, two miles being metalled and one mile being clay. The soil is of light loam quality, resting on papa and sandstone formation. The forest comprises mixed bush from which milling-timber has been removed. Well watered by streams.

G. H. M. MCCLURE,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves in the Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,

Christchurch, 20th February, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the education reserves described in the Schedule hereto will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, at 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 31st March, 1922, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Ellesmere County.—Southbridge Survey District.

Lot 1, Reserve 1179, Block X: Area, 193 acres; upset annual rental, £115 16s.

Weighted with £36, valuation for fencing.

Lot 2, Reserve 1179, Block X: Area, 64 acres; upset annual rental, £64.

Weighted with £66 2s. 6d., valuation for fencing.

These reserves are all good grazing-land, mostly ploughable, but subject to flood. Situated by Taumutu Lagoon, about seven miles from Southbridge Township and railway-station by good road.

Term, twenty-one years.

Ellesmere County.—Mairaki Survey District.

Reserve 1186, Blocks I and V: Area, 75 acres 1 rood 5 perches; upset annual rent, £90 6s.

Weighted with £70 12s., valuation for fencing. This must be paid in cash on the fall of the hammer.

Situated about four miles from East Oxford Railway-station and post-office by good road. All good grazing-land suitable for grain-growing.

Term, twenty-one years.

Ellesmere County.—Teviotdale Survey District.

Reserve 1143, Block V: Area, 72 acres 2 roods; upset annual rent, £27.

Weighted with £36, valuation for sixty-six chains of fencing. This section is situated about half a mile from Glasnevin Railway-station, and is flat agricultural and pastoral land.

Term, twenty-one years.

Mount Herbert County.—Pigeon Bay Survey District.

Reserve 1234, Block XI: Area, 60 acres 0 roods 13 perches; upset annual rent, £90.

Weighted with £120, valuation for fencing.

Situated about four miles from Duvauchelles Bay Township. Rich pastoral hilly land, well grassed, and well watered by springs.

Term, twenty-one years.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, together with rent for the broken period up to 1st July, 1922, and £2 2s. lease fee and cost of registration, must be paid on the fall of the hammer.

2. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with right of renewal for further similar terms at rentals based on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

3. Rent payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st days of January and July in each year.

4. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges; and yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of his lease.

5. Lessee not to transfer, sublet, or subdivide without the consent of the Land Board.

6. Lessee to keep the land free from noxious weeds, rabbits, and vermin.

7. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without the consent of the Land Board.

8. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.

9. Lessee not to make improvements without the consent of the Land Board.

10. Lessee not to take more than three crops in succession, one of which must be a root crop; after the third crop the land to be left in pasture for at least three years; at least two-thirds of the area cropped to be left in pasture at the expiration of the term; penalty for breach, £2 per acre.

11. Lessee not entitled to any compensation for improvements; but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of valuation for buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee with the consent of the Board; failing disposal, the land and buildings to revert to the Crown without compensation.

12. Lease liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent within six months after due date, or for breach of conditions.

13. Land Board may resume not more than 5 acres for school-site upon reduction of rent and compensation for crops.

14. Lessee to keep buildings insured.

15. Lessee to have no right to any minerals.

Education reserves are included in the classes of land on which, with the approval of the Advances Board, money may be advanced by the State Advances Office.

The reserves are described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Possession will be given on the 1st April, 1922.

Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained at this office.

G. H. BULLARD,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,

Christchurch, 20th February, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash or on deferred payments, at the Local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1922, at 2.30 p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

BOURNDALE SETTLEMENT.

SECTION 8, Block II, Waimate Survey District, Waimate County: Area, 5 acres; upset purchase price, £90.

Situated about six miles from Makikihi Railway-station and post-office by formed road. Land is somewhat light and stony, practically level. Laid down in old grass. Weighted with £7, valuation for twenty chains of fencing.

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 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 and 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 date, 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 section 60 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

G. H. BULLARD,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.