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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 9th day of October, 1924; 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, Blenheim, 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 preceding the date of the 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 late war were bona fide residents of New Zealand.

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SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Marlborough County.—Taylor Pass Survey District.

Omaka Settlement.

SECTIONS 1 of 4 and 1 of 5, Block I: Area, 180 acres 3 roods 13 perches. Capital value, £3,200. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £80.

Situated about nine miles from Blenheim next to Mr. C. Goulter’s well known stud-farm. Adjoining Omaka School and within one mile of Omaka Post-office. All flat; soil somewhat light, suitable for agriculture and grazing. Well planted with shelter-trees, and orchard. Good house of seven rooms, stable, and shed.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

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

2. Rent, 5 per cent. per annum on the capital value; payable in advance on the 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 declarations, and on being declared successful deposit £1 ls. lease fee and a half-year’s rent, together with rent for broken period.

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

6. Order of selection to be decided by ballot.

7. Successful applicant 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. All improvements on the land to be kept in good order and condition, and all buildings to be fully insured.

10. No transfer allowed without permission of Land Board and Minister.

11. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

J. STEVENSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1924.

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, Wellington, at 2 o’clock p.m., on Wednesday, 8th October, 1924, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Ngamatea Survey District.

SECTION 1, Block X: Area, 127 acres 1 rood 20 perches; capital value, £640.

Weighted with £604, valuation for improvements, consisting of felling and grassing whole area, £448; and 104 chains of eight-wire fencing, £156. To be paid in cash on the fall of the hammer.

This section is situated on the Parapara–Raetihi Road, about twenty miles from Raetihi by formed and partly metalled dray-road. Comprises fairly steep good pastoral country. The whole area has been felled and laid down in grass. Section is watered by running streams.

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 ls.) 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 already paid shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908. The valuation for improvements to be paid for in cash on the fall of the hammer.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Land in Rotorua Forest-conservation Region acquired as a State Forest.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 30th August, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired as a permanent State Forest under section 22 of the Forests Act, 1921–22.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—MARUANUI AND RUNANGA SURVEY DISTRICTS.

State Forest No. 70.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, being portion of Runanga No. 2a Block, containing by admeasurement 16,825 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks III, IV, VII, VIII, XI, XII, and XVI, Maruanui Survey District, and Blocks IX, XIII, and XIV, Runanga Survey District, and being all the land contained in certificate of title, Volume 395, folio 185 (Auckland Land Registration District).

G. PHILLIPS TURNER, Secretary of Forestry.

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court holden at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court, and I hereby further give notice that at the next sitting of the said Court, to be holden on Friday, the 26th day of September, 1924, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates.

Adams, Joseph Bernard, of Massey, Farm Labourer.
Atkinson, Noel Furness, of Ruatoki, Farmer.
Bailey, C. R., of Auckland.
Bates, Albert Edward, of Auckland, Waterside Worker.
Bennett, Harry, of Whakatane, Motor-service Proprietor.
Berlyn, Loius, of Auckland, Agent.
Bevins, Alfred, of Auckland, Commission Agent.
Billington, Herbert Frederick, of Matatoki, Farmer.

Brooks, William Henry, of Auckland, Accountant.
Brown, Samuel, of Otahuhu, Labourer.
Brown, Robert David James, of Auckland, Sawmiller.
Butler, Charles E., of Devonport, Carpenter.
Cadness, Roland Edward, of Auckland, Hosiery-importer.
Cameron, George Percy, of Te Kopuru, Contractor.
Carter, James Arthur, and George, trading as “George Carter and Son,” of Northcote, Builders.
Chambers, Raymond, and Tandy, William Henry, trading as “Chambers and Tandy,” of Tuhimata, Farmers.
Cox, William Benjamin, formerly of Whangarei but now of Auckland, Farmer.
Cracknell, Arthur, of Auckland, Solicitor.
Crass, Herman, of Auckland, Barman.
Crass, Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Herman Crass, of Auckland, Barman.
Creeth, George Annear, of Auckland, Agent.
Dale, Alexander, of Auckland, Commission Agent.
Death, Walter Allen, of Green Lane, Farmer.