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

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
is open for 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 Monday, the 27th day of March, 1922.

The land 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 the right to acquire the freehold.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 29th day of March, 1922.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.--FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Rangitikei County.--Hautapu Survey District.--Raumaewae Settlement.
SECTION 3 : Area, 87 acres 0 roods 12 perches; capital value, £3,716; annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £189 16s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £83 12s. 3d.; interest and sinking fund, £9 4s. 10d.*

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £80;
  payable in cash, or by ten half-yearly payments of £9 4s. 10d.
  Total half-yearly payments on lease, £92 17s.

NOTE.--The deferred-payment instalment includes payment on buildings.

The property is situated about one mile from Mangaweka Township, access by metalled road, is of heavy-loam quality, resting on blue papa; well watered by dams and springs. Dairy stock on the property to be taken over by the successful applicant.

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

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

Pastoral Run in Otago Land District for License.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th February, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run is open for license for a term of twenty-one years under the Land Act, 1908, and amendments; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 10th day of April, 1922.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 12th day of April, 1922, at 10 o'clock a.m.

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

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent on them; to landless applicants who, within two years immediately preceding the date of ballot, have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully; to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force: and to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with the late war, if such persons immediately prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
Tuapeka County.--Benger Survey District.
RUN 647 (Class B): Area, 805 acres; capital value, £3,690; half-yearly rent, £73 16s.; term, twenty-one years.

Valuation for improvements, £262 10s. (fencing).

The successful applicant will be required to take a lease (expiring at the same time as the run license), under section 59 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, over Section 3s, Dalmain Settlement: Area, 503 acres; capital value, £2,740; half-yearly rent, £61 13s.

The valuation for buildings to be paid for separately is £110, payable in cash, or in five years by ten half-yearly instalments of £12 14s. 1d. These buildings consist of stable, car-shed, yard, old chaff-house, old open-front shed, now on Allotment 5s, to be removed by the lessee of Allotment 3s and re-erected on his allotment at his own expense. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £74 7s. 1d.

The improvements included in the capital value consist of fencing valued at £301 10s.

Situated about eighteen to twenty miles from Beaumont Railway-station, the present terminus of the Lawrence-Roxburgh Railway, and from one mile to one mile and a half from Ettrick Post and Telegraph Office and school. Access by good roads.

The land is ridgy, and is of very fair quality. The general aspect is good. The altitude varies from 400 ft. to 1,300 ft. above sea-level.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Lands in the Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 30th January, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for lease by public auction for the terms stated, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, at the Local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, at 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 29th day of March, 1922.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
Waimate County.--Nimrod Survey District.
RESERVE 2447, Block IV: Area, 30 acres; upset annual rental, £7 10s.

Reserve 2448, Block IV: Area, 58 acres; upset annual rental, £8 14s.

The reserves are situated on the western side of the Whitewater River at the foot of the eastern slope of Mount Nimrod, about four miles and a half southward from Cannington Homestead and about eleven miles south-westward from Cave Railway-station. Term of lease, fourteen years.

Levels County.--Tengawai Survey District.
Part R.S. 35944, Block XVI: Area, 25 acres 2 roods; upset annual rental, £4 4s.

The section is mostly steep face, covered with gorse and manuka scrub in parts.

Situated about six miles from Cricklewood Railway-station by road, and is practically surrounded by the Rockwood Estate. Term of lease, seven years.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The purchaser of a lease shall, immediately upon the fall of the hammer, or with his application, deposit an amount equal to one year's rent at the rate offered, together with £1 1s. lease fee.

2. Possession will be given on the day of sale, or on acceptance of the application.

3. The leases will be for the terms stated, commencing on the day of sale or on acceptance of application.

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may at any time resume possession of the land comprised in a lease, or any portion thereof, by giving to the lessee six months' notice in writing of his intention so to do.

5. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or on account of the aforesaid resumption, or for any other cause, but he will be allowed, on the expiration of his lease, or in the event of the land being resumed as hereinbefore provided, to remove any fencing or buildings erected by him upon the land.

6. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The land shall be used for grazing purposes only, and shall not be broken up or cropped without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

8. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

9. The lessee will be required, within six months from the commencement of the lease, to have the land securely fenced, and thoroughly cleared of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds, and to so keep it cleared during the whole of the term.

10. The rent shall be payable yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.

11. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.