Jan. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 285

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Pastoral Run in Southland Land District open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 23rd January, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run is open for selection for license under the Land 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 27th February, 1923.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 28th February, 1923, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.

Class A.—Education Endowment.

(Term of Lease, Thirty-five Years from the 1st March, 1923.)

Lot 2 of Run 301c, Blocks II, III, IV, and V, Mararoa District: Area, 11,573 acres; annual rental, £150.

Weighted with £582, valuation for improvements consisting of fencing.

This area is part of the Linwood Run, and is situated seven miles and a half from Manapouri Township and thirty-two miles from Mossburn, by formed road practically all gravelled. The altitude varies from 700 ft. to 1,250 ft. The greater part of the land is level to undulating. The balance has a slightly southerly aspect. About 1,500 acres adjoining Flaxy Creek is very fair quality land carrying good feed. The balance is lighter quality, and carries light tussock and fern. The whole area is well watered, and existing fences are in good order.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS.

1. Applicants must be over twenty-one years of age, excepting in the case of discharged-soldier applicants.

2. One half-year’s rent and rent for broken period between date of possession and the 1st March, 1923, valuation for improvements, £1 1s. license fee, and statutory declaration to be deposited by successful applicant.

3. Personal residence is to commence within one year and to be continuous thereafter.

4. No person may hold more than one run, except on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the approval of the Minister. If a husband holds a run, his wife is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.

5. Rent is payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st March and the 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty days of due date a penalty of 10 per cent. is added.

6. Term of license to be as stated hereon, with contingent right of renewal over the whole or a subdivision of the run for a similar term.

7. Licensee to prevent destruction or burning of timber, burning of snow-tussock, burning of other tussock except in July, August, and September; to prevent growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbrier, or other noxious weeds or plants; to keep down rabbits; and to refrain from burning grass during such months as the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time determine.

8. Licensee to have no right to the timber or flax on the land comprised in the license.

9. With the permission of the Land Board the licensee may—
   (a.) Cultivate a portion of the run and grow winter feed thereon;
   (b.) Plough and sow in grass any area not exceeding 3,000 acres;
   (c.) Clear of bush or scrub any portion of the run, and sow same in grass;
   (d.) Surface sow in grass any portion of the run.

On expiry of license the value of licensee’s improvements will be protected.

10. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

11. Improvements.—The lessee is required to effect improvements as follows: Within one year from the date of his lease, to a value equal to one year’s rent payable under the lease; within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to two years’ rent payable under the lease; within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to four years’ rent payable under the lease.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to this office.

R. S. GALBRAITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is 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, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 26th day of February, 1923.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for a term of 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, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 27th day of February, 1923, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

SECTION 29, Block IV: Area, 173 acres 0 roods 9 perches; capital value, £730; annual instalment on deferred payments (excluding interest), £56 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £16 8s. 6d.; interest and sinking fund, £15 12s.*

• Half-yearly instalments of principal and interest on buildings valued at £400.

NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment includes payment for buildings.

Valuation for buildings to be paid for in cash, or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £15 12s.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £32 0s. 6d.

Valuation for improvements (£770) consisting of 155 chains fencing, felling and grassing, roads and tracks, will have to be paid for in cash, or may be treated as an advance on current account.

Description.—Situated on the Oio Valley Road about two miles and a quarter from Owhango Railway-station. Access by formed dray-road. Soil is of light quality, on papa formation; well watered by streams. 130 acres have been felled and grassed, balance in bush. Altitude, 1,440 ft. to 1,755 ft.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in the Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 23rd January, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash or on deferred payments, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, the 1st day of March, 1923, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SOUNDS COUNTY.—GORE SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTION part 13, Block I: Area, 6 acres 1 rood 9 perches; upset price, £600.

This area is poor-class shady hillside covered with fern, and native grass in patches.

The improvements which are included in the upset price consist of a well-built five-roomed dwelling, with hot and cold water, and ordinary conveniences, water-supply from two 600-gallon tanks; about forty chains of boundary and subdivisional fencing, some fruit-trees, &c. This property is situated in Waitaria Bay, Kenepuru Sound, about twelve miles from Picton via Portage. There is a wharf alongside the section.

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.