2670
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at this office on Wednesday, 28th October, 1925, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Kaitieki County.—Hunua Survey District.

SECTION 90, Block VI: Area, 19 acres 2 roods; upset price, £487 10s.

This area adjoins the Town of Kakahi, being situated at the corner of Piwai Street and Totika Road. Comprises open flat land with patches of manuka.

TERMS OF SALE.

Cash.—One-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown grant fee of £1, will be payable within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit will be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Deferred Payments.—A deposit of 5 per cent. of the price bid and £1 1s. license fee is payable on the fall of the hammer, and the balance by equal annual instalments extending over a period of nineteen years and bearing interest at 5 per cent. per annum.

Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to this office.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Nelson Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 21st September, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run is open for selection in terms of the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 10th November, 1925.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, the 12th November, 1925, at 10 o’clock a.m.; but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

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 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.

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

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.
Waimea County.—Gordon Survey District.—Run No. 6.

SECTION 7, Block IX: Area, 1,302 acres; capital value, £1,226; half-yearly rent, £30 13s.

Improvements.—The improvements which are included in the capital value of the land consist of cottage, 300 chains of fencing, and burning and grassing.

Situated within one mile of Golden Downs Post and Telegraph Office. Access from Kohatu Railway-station, six miles by good flat metalled road. The run comprises easy rolling country, steep in places. Portion of this run has been burnt and is now in native grass (Danthonia); balance of run is covered with bracken fern. Well watered.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

Small Grazing-run.

1. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.

2. Term of lease: twenty-one years, with right of renewal; or in the event of subdivision into allotments, right to a lease of one allotment, compensation for loss of right to new lease of other allotments, and valuation for improvements.

3. Rent commences from date of lease, and is payable half-yearly, in advance, on 1st March and 1st September in each year.

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

5. No person may hold more than one run, except on the recommendation of the Land Board, and with the approval of the Minister of Lands.

6. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the run within one year to the value of one year’s rental; within two years to the value of two years’ rental, and within six years to the value of four years’ rental. In addition to the foregoing, on bush land, improvements are also to be effected within six years to the value of 10s. per acre for every acre of first-class land, and 5s. per acre for every acre of second-class land. Any money paid as valuation for improvements will be allowed as substantial improvements upon the land.

7. On expiry of term of lease, lessee’s improvements will be valued and protected.

8. Residence must commence within three years in the case of bush land or swamp land, and within one year in the case of open or partly open land, and be continuous until the expiration of the lease. Under certain conditions personal residence may be dispensed with after ten years.

9. Roads may be taken without payment of compensation.

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

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Timber in North Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Tender.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 22nd September, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 28th October, 1925, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the timber regulations thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Hobson County.

SECTION 6, Block XVI, Tutamoe Survey District.

183 kahikatea-trees, containing 437,436 super. feet.
103 rimu-trees ,, 101,136 ,,
31 matai-trees ,, 20,049 ,,

317 trees ,, 558,621 ,,

Distinguishing brand, V.
Upset price, £600.
Time for removal, two years.

NOTE.—All kauri and totara timber and three isolated trees numbered 71, 80, and 169 excluded from the sale, and must not be felled or removed.

TERMS OF PAYMENT.

The sum of one-fourth of the amount of tender to be paid in cash within seven days after acceptance of tender, together with £1 1s. license fee; balance payable in three equal instalments on 1st April, 1926, 1st October, 1926, and 1st April, 1927.

All instalment-payments shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum as from the date of acceptance of tender, and with the interest added shall be secured by “on demand” promissory notes endorsed by two approved sureties, and such bills are to be completed and lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands within fourteen days after notifying the purchaser to complete.

Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit of 5 per cent. on the amount of tender in cash, marked cheque, or post-office order; the balance to be paid, if tender accepted, in terms as stated above.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. Intending purchasers are expected to visit the locality and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relating to the sale.
2. The right is reserved to the Commissioner of Crown Lands to withdraw this timber from sale either before or after the date for receipt of tenders.