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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

DECEASED PERSONS’ ESTATES—continued.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 3rd May, 1922.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Southland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the under-mentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Southland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Sections 7, 8, and 9, Block XII, Oteramika Hundred.

TENURE: O.R.P. Lease No. 233. Formerly held by H. Killen. Reason for forfeiture: At licensee’s request on account of failing strength and consequent inability to farm the land properly.

Section 12, Block V, Aparima Hundred.

Tenure: O.R.P. Lease No. 688. Formerly held by Frederick Langloh Donkin. Reason for forfeiture: Arrears of rent and non-fulfilment of improvement conditions.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 2nd May, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 28th day of June, 1922. 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 terms 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, Napier, on Thursday, the 29th day of June, 1922, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Dannevirke County.—Takapau Survey District.—Waikopiri Block.

Section 64, Block X: Area, 211 acres 2 roods; capital value, £3,400; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £170; half-yearly rent on lease, £76 10s.

Section 65, Block X: Area, 200 acres; capital value, £2,950; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £147 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £66 7s. 6d.

Section 66, Block X: Area, 428 acres; capital value, £5,010; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £250 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £112 14s. 6d.

Section 67, Block X: Area, 447 acres; capital value, £4,230; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £211 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £95 3s. 6d.

Section 2, Block XI: Area, 502 acres; capital value, £2,510; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £125 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £56 9s. 6d.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The Waikopiro Block, containing 1,788 acres, is divided into five holdings, varying in areas from 200 to 500 acres, and is situated in Blocks X and XI, Takapau Survey District, three miles to the eastward of the railway-station at Ormondville. The western portion of the block was originally bush, which has been felled, burnt, and sown in English grasses. Logs and stumps still on the ground are valuable as firewood. The balance of the area to be offered comprises scrub and fern country, with patches of native and exotic grasses. The altitude of the block is from 750 ft. to 1,550 ft. above sea-level, and the country generally consists of easy limestone and papa hills, a good percentage of which is ploughable. There is a good homestead-site on each section, and the block is well watered by the Manawatu River, Waikopiro and Maungapurakau Streams; there are also springs on each of the sections with the exception of Section 2, Block XI, Takapau Survey District.

Whetakura Village is about one mile distant from the nearest section.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which go with the land and are included in the capital value of the sections comprise fencing and whare as follows: Section 64, £81; Section 65, £66; Section 66, £84; Section 67, £94 (includes whare); Section 2, £50.

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

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.