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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 33

Mining Privilege struck off the Register.—Notice under the Mining Act, 1926.

Mining Registrar’s Office,
Blenheim, 16th February, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of section 188, subsection (4), of the Mining Act, 1926, I have this day struck the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereunder off the Register.

A. F. BENT, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No. 249 (Havelock). Date: 31st January, 1923. Nature of privilege: Residence-site. Locality: Dead Horse Creek, Whakamarina. Registered holder: Raymond Harris Humphries.

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th April, 1928.

THE following result of the election of a trustee of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON,
Assistant Under-Secretary.

Omarunui Drainage District, County of Hawke’s Bay—
John Albert Hennah.

(I.A. 19/78/48.)

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Gisborne Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 11th April, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and license of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Gisborne Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 16th April, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m., on Tuesday, 15th May, 1928.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., on Thursday, 17th January, 1928. 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, Invercargill, immediately upon 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 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; 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; and to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s Forces in connection with any war other than the war with Germany.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—
SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wallace County.—Jacobs River Hundred.—Ermedale Settlement.

SECTIONS 21, Block XIII: Area, 171 acres 1 rood 15 perches. Capital value, £400. Half-yearly rent, £10.

Weighted with £300, valuation for cottage, outbuildings, and fencing; £25 payable in cash, balance may remain on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Office for a thirty-year term. Interest, 6 per cent.

Undulating land, suitable for mixed farming. About 60 acres still in native bush. Situated six miles from Fairfax Railway-station by good road. Altitude, 40 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level.

SPECIAL CONDITION.

The lessee will be granted exemption from payment of rent for one year from date of selection.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

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

2. Rent: Five per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable 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 declaration, 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 January or 1st July following is also payable.

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

6. No persons 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 foregoing, 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.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.