2848
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 17th October, 1927.

Every application shall be accompanied by such declaration as may be required, and on being declared successful shall be completed by payment of a license fee of £1 1s.

Applicants must appear personally before the North Auckland Land Board for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, the 19th October, 1927, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.

If two or more applications are received in respect of one allotment of land, the Land Board may either determine which of the applicants in its opinion is most suitable to occupy the land, or may cause a ballot to be taken in accordance with the regulations for the time being in force relating to ballots under the Land Act. The decision of the Land Board either in regard to the suitability or otherwise of any applicant, the sufficiency of capital possessed by him, or any other matter connected with the allotment of any section, shall be final and conclusive.

Except on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the approval of the Minister, a single woman shall not be eligible to apply for these lands.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitemata County.—Waiwera Survey District.

Part Riverhead Block.

The sections form part of the well-known Riverhead Block, and are situated on unformed roads from half a mile to two miles off the Kaukapakapa–Dairy Flat Road, which is metalled. It is about five miles from the Kaukapakapa Railway-station to the junction of the unformed roads. The soil on these sections is chiefly brown clay, with a light covering of sandy loam in the gullies and flats. Land is covered with tea-tree, hakea, and patches of danthonia. Watered by swampy stream.

Section 3: About 30 acres flat, balance easy slopes, all of which are ploughable.

Section 4: About 100 acres easy slopes, all of which are ploughable, balance being fairly steep sidlings.

Section 5: All easy slopes, of which about 60 acres are ploughable.

Section 6: All easy slopes, of which about 110 acres are ploughable.

Section 7: All easy slopes, of which about 100 acres are ploughable.

Section 8: All easy slopes, of which about 70 acres are ploughable.

Section 9: All easy slopes, of which about 60 acres are ploughable.

Section 10: This section is fairly broken, about 50 acres being ploughable.

NOTE.—Sufficient road-formation to give clay-road access to each of these sections will be undertaken during the coming summer.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

1. No rent or other charges shall be made in respect of the occupation of these lands.

2. Every license shall be for a term of ten years, and may from time to time be renewed for a like term.

3. No person shall, without the approval of the Minister or on the special recommendation of the Land Board, be qualified to acquire under these conditions more than 400 acres of second-class land or 1,000 acres of third-class land, computed in the manner prescribed by section 107 of the Land Act, 1924: Provided that in no case shall the area comprised in any license exceed 600 acres of second-class land or 1,500 acres of third-class land, computed as aforesaid.

4. No license shall be capable of being assigned or transferred, and any agreement for the assignment or transfer of a license shall be void as such, and shall operate as a surrender of the license to the Crown: Provided, however, that in any case where the licensee has effected improvements on the land comprised in his license to the extent prescribed with respect to the period of two years after the date of selection, or where by reason of special and unforseen circumstances an assignment or other disposition is, in the opinion of the Board and the Minister, desirable, such disposition may be permitted.

5. Every licensee shall, for a period of four years from the date of his license, be exempt in respect of the land comprised in his license, from all general rates made and levied by any local authority.

Improvements.

6. Within two years after the date of selection the licensee shall clear and bring under cultivation not less than one-tenth of the total area of his selection; and, in addition thereto, shall place upon the land substantial improvements of a permanent character to a value equal to not less than ten shillings per acre.

Within four years after the date of selection the licensee shall clear and bring under cultivation an additional area of not less than one third of the total area of his selection; and, in addition thereto, shall place upon the land substantial improvements of a permanent character to an additional value of not less than ten shillings per acre.

Within six years after the date of selection the licensee shall have laid down in permanent cultivated grasses and clovers not less than one-half of the total area of the section, and have placed upon the land substantial improvements of a permanent character to a total value of not less than thirty shillings per acre.

Before any improvements are effected upon any of the land disposed of under these regulations, a proposal setting out the improvements in detail shall be submitted for the approval of the Land Board.

All areas brought into cultivation and all improvements placed upon the land, shall be maintained in good order and condition during the currency of the license. All areas brought under pasture shall be so maintained by the necessary application of manures: Provided that if the licensee resides on the land comprised in his license, he shall be deemed to have complied with the conditions herein set out as to improvements if within the times prescribed by the regulations in that behalf he puts on the land improvements to a value of not less than half of the prescribed value.

7. At any time after completion of improvements to the value prescribed in respect of the period of six years after the date of selection a licensee who has complied to the satisfaction of the Board with all the conditions of his license shall be entitled, without payment, other than the necessary Crown-grant fee, to become the owner in fee-simple of the land comprised therein.

Forfeiture and Surrender.

8. If any licensee under these regulations shall fail from time to time to effect the prescribed improvements, or in any other manner shall commit any breach of any conditions to which his license is subject, whether express or implied, his interest therein shall be liable to be absolutely forfeited, and the land shall revert to His Majesty the King.

Any licensee may, with the consent of the Minister, on the recommendation of the Land Board, surrender his interest in his license.

Plans and full particulars can be obtained on application to this office.

O. N. CAMPBELL,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 3rd September, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Invercargill, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 26th September, 1927.

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SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that area, containing approximately 44 acres (part Provisional State Forest No. 37, Block IX, Rimu Survey District), situated in Maclennan Valley.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 98,098, in board feet 635,300, made up as follows:—

Upset price, £555.

Ground rent, £2 14s. per annum.

Time for removal of timber, one year.