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Situated about fourteen miles from Invercargill and half a mile from Grove Bush Post-office and school by good metalled road. Suitable for grazing.

ABSTRACT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the day of the sale.
2. Six months rent at the rate offered and rent for the broken period, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), must be deposited on acceptance of bid.
3. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further similar terms at rentals on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.
4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live ledges; and yield up all improvements in good order and condition at the expiration of the lease.
6. Lessee not to transfer, mortgage, sublet, or subdivide without consent of the Land Board.
7. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without consent of the Land Board.
8. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.
9. No liability is accepted on the part of the Crown or of the Land Board to pay to the lessee any compensation for improvements, but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration or if it is sooner determined, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of an amount equal to the value of buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee, and the amount so paid by the incoming tenant shall be paid to the original lessee without any deduction except for rent or other payments in arrear.
10. Lease liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.
11. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
12. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.

Sale plans and full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 9th January, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under section 20 of the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Amendment Act, 1923, and the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 19th February, 1929.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 21st February, 1929, at 10.30 o’clock a.m.; but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

The ballot will be held immediately upon the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

The land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose right shall be to the surface soil only.

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.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Wallace County—Jacobs River Hundred.—Otago Mining District.

SECTION 22, Block XVII: Area, 242 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £400. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10.

Situated two miles and a half from Colac Railway-station and school, and four miles from Hekeia Dairy Factory. All metalled roads.

Altitude from 30 ft. to 350 ft. above sea-level. Undulating land. Originally all bush, worked out by the sawmill, but now partly felled and grassed. Mostly good soil on sandstone and papa formation. Well watered by creeks. Suitable for dairying when further improved.

The improvements included in the capital value of the land comprise cottage, cow-shed, and fencing.

Subject to any existing water or tramway rights.

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.
2. Rent, 5 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 lands 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, Invercargill.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that HERMAN ARNS, Carpenter, of Patetonga, Hauraki Plains, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Morrinsville, on Saturday, the 5th day of January, 1929, at 10 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 17th day of December, 1928.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN ARTHUR ALLEN WOODS, of 304 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, Draper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 21st day of December, 1928, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 18th day of December, 1928.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.