2962

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 30th October, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands
will be offered for sale for cash or on deferred payments,
at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at
11 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 19th day of December, 1922,
under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.

Rural Land.

SECTION 76, Block III, Oteramika Hundred : Area, 5 acres
3 roods 1 perch; upset price, £50.

Slightly undulating land, all in grass. Situated three miles
from Kapuka Railway-station by gravelled road except for
last quarter of a mile.

Village Land.

Section 785, Block LXIX, Hokonui Survey District : Area,
8 acres 0 roods 3 perchs; upset price, £33.

Weighted with £40, valuation for improvements.
Situated four miles from Gore and twenty chains from
school. Originally bush land, some stumps still remaining.

Section 8, Block I, Town of Waianiwa : Area, 1 rood;
upset price, £10.

Section 9, Block I, Town of Waianiwa : Area, 1 rood
16 perches ; upset price, £10.

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 and
valuation for improvements (if any), thirty days thereafter.

· (2.) Deferred Payments.—5 per cent. of the purchase-money,
license fee (£l ls.), and valuation for improvements 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 centum on the unpaid purchase-
money, but with the right to pay off at any time the whole
or any other 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 already paid shall be forfeited,
and the contract for the sale be null and void.

Titles will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908.
Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

R. S. GALBRAITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District open for Selection on
Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 7th November, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
is open for selection on renewable lease under the
provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settle-

ments Act, 1908, and amendments ; and applications will be
received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill,
up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 12th December, 1922.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board
for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, the 14th
December, 1922.

The ballot will be held on Thursday, the 14th December,
1922, at the conclusion of the 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 pre-
ceding 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Wallace County.—Wairaki Survey District.—Beaumont
Settlement.

SECTION 9, Block XXIX : Area, 304 acres 3 roods 20 perchs;
capital value, £420; half-yearly rent, £9 9s.

Weighted with £49, valuation for fencing, &c.
Open undulating land, the south-western portion being
rather broken. About 40 acres have been cultivated, balance
tussock and fern. Suitable for pastoral purposes. Situated
nine miles by good gravelled road from Nightcaps Railway-
station.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, thirty-three years, with a perpetual
   right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three
   years and a right to acquire the freehold.

2. Rent, 4½ per cent. per annum on the capital value, pay-
   able in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards.

4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory de-
   claration, and, on being declared successful, deposit £l 1s.
   (lease fee) and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken
   period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July
   following is also payable.

5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be
   simultaneous.

6. No person may hold more than one allotment.

7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days
   after being notified that it is ready for signature.

8. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all
   rates, taxes, and assessments.

9. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the
   land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price;
   within two years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the
   price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of
   another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the fore-
   going, and within six years, improvements are also to be
   effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land,
   10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every
   acre of third-class land.

10. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of
    lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then
    only with permission.

11. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time
    within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed
    for area taken for such roads.

12. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated

R. S. GALBRAITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.