1680
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

12. Licensee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
13. Transfer not allowed until after completion of two years’ continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.
14. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time within seven years from date of license.
15. License is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Renewable Lease.

1. Term of lease: Sixty-six years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years.
2. Rent: 4 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.
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 January or 1st July following is also payable.
5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.
6. Order of selection is decided by ballot.
7. Successful applicant to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.
8. Residence is to commence within four years in bush land or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, and to be continuous for ten years. Under certain conditions personal residence may be dispensed with.
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. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.
11. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years’ continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.
12. Roads may be taken through the land at any time within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed for area taken for such roads.
13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

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

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 16th May, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the Courthouse, Timaru, at 1.30 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, 28th June, 1928, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Township of Orari.

For Sale for Cash.

SECTION 4, Block X: Area, 1 rood 5 perches. Upset price, £6.

Section fronts Gladstone and Opihi Streets, and comprises flat, light, stony land, mostly covered with gorse. Situated about one mile from Orari Railway-station and school.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Geraldine Town District.

For Sale for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

SECTIONS 240 and 241: Area, 2 roods. Upset price, £90.

Situated in the Borough of Geraldine on the corner of Wilson and Lewis Streets. Suitable for building-sites.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

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

Deferred Payments: A deposit of £10 of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. license fee, on the fall of the hammer; the balance by equal half-yearly instalments of principal and interest extending over a period of 34½ years, with interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum, but with the right to pay off at any time the whole or any part of the outstanding amount.

If the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, the amount already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Titles will be subject to Part XIII of Land Act, 1924, and purchaser must subscribe to the declaration required thereunder.

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

W. STEWART,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 16th May, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 18th June, 1928.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at 10 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 20th June, 1928, and must produce documentary evidence of their financial position or backing, farming ability and experience, and, in the case of discharged soldiers, their military discharges. If any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

The ballot will be held 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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CROWN LAND.

Ashburton County.—Alford Survey District.

PART Reserve 3374, Block XVI: Area, 5 acres 0 roods 2 perches. Capital value, £75. Half-yearly rental, £1 10s.

Part of the Mt. Somers tramway reserve, situated close to the railway-station. Medium-class agricultural land, at present in good pasture. An ideal place for the erection of a worker’s home or for bee culture. Divided into three paddocks. All fencing is the property of the former licensee, and the successful applicant will require to make his own arrangements for payment of same.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Sixty-six years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years, and a right to acquire the freehold.
2. Rent: Four per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year.
3. Applicants to be seventeen 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 person 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 (subject to exemption provisions of Land Act, 1924) within one year of selection and thereafter continuously for ten years, 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