Aug. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF SALE.

Cash.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the remaining four-fifths, together with Crown-grant fee of £1, within thirty days thereafter.

Cash by Instalments.

(a) Ten per cent. of the purchase-money, and license fee of £1 1s., on the fall of the hammer.
(b) Ten per cent. thereof on the expiration of each of the following periods from the date of sale—namely, three months, six months, nine months, and twelve months.
(c) The balance of 50 per cent. on the expiration of eighteen months from the date of sale.
(d) Interest on the unpaid balance of purchase-money to be payable with each instalment, and to be computed at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum.

Special Deferred Payments.

(a) Five per cent. of purchase-money, together with £1 1s. (license fee), to be paid on the fall of the hammer.
(b) The balance of the purchase-money, with interest thereon at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum, to be paid by instalments extending over a period of 34½ years.
(c) In addition to the prescribed half-yearly instalment the purchaser may, on making any such payment, pay any sum or sums, not less than £5 or multiple of £5, in reduction of the purchase-money.
(d) Upon receipt of the final instalment a certificate of title in respect of the land purchased shall issue, upon payment of the prescribed Crown-grant fee.

If the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, whether of purchase-money or interest, the amount (if any) already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale be null and void.

It shall not be lawful for any person to acquire more than two allotments of land, subject to the provisions of the Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Act, 1925, under the system of deferred payments providing for repayment of purchase-money in 34½ years, and where any person so acquires two allotments, such allotments shall be contiguous.

Except on the recommendation of the Land Board and with the approval of the Minister of Lands, it shall not be lawful for any lessee or licensee of land subject to the provisions of the Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Act, 1925, to transfer his interest in such land before the expiration of ten years from the date of the original disposal of the land under the aforesaid Act.

Titles will be subject to section 85 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924.

The lands are described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the accuracy of any description.

Sale plans and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

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

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for sale or selection under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 23rd September, 1929.

The land in the First Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.

The Land in the Second Schedule is open for selection on renewable lease only.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., on Wednesday, 25th September, 1929, 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 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.

SECTION 4, Block IX: Area, 369 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £185. Deposit on deferred payments, £10; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £5 13s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 14s.

Weighted with improvements valued at £1,530, consisting of felling, grassing, stumping, fencing, sheep-yards, plantations, orchard, and buildings. This amount may either be paid in cash or left on first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent; term, thirty years; interest at 6 per cent. per annum.

Property has a frontage to the Raetihi–Ohura Road, fourteen miles from Raetihi Railway-station. The Ruatiti School is three miles distant and the Raetihi Dairy Factory fourteen miles distant; 260 acres is in fair pasture, the balance felled and grassed, but reverted to second growth and fern. Well watered by streams.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Whirinaki Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)

SECTION 3, Block VIII: Area, 730 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £547. Half-yearly rent, £10 18s. 10d.

Weighted with £980, value of improvements consisting of felling, grassing, fencing, orchard, and buildings. This amount may either be paid in cash or secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent; term, thirty years.

Property is situated on the Raetihi–Ohura Road, about twenty-eight miles from the Raetihi Railway-station, six miles from Ruatiti School. Dairy Factory at Raetihi. Fairly steep slopes, with light soil, mostly on sandstone formation. About 500 acres felled and grassed, and balance bush. Pasture reverting to second growth. Land is suitable for grazing. Altitude from 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)

Section 4, Block IX: Area, 412 acres. Capital value, £200. Half-yearly rent, £8.

Weighted with £500, value of improvements consisting of felling, grassing, stumping, fencing, and buildings. This amount may either be paid in cash or secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent; term, thirty years; interest, 6 per cent. per annum.

Access is from Raurimu Railway-station, which is about twelve miles distant. 400 acres felled and grassed, of which 300 acres has reverted to fern and undergrowth. The section is undulating to hilly, and lies well to the sun. The soil is of light quality on clay and pumice formation. Well watered by streams. Altitude, 900 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)

Section 4, Block V: Area, 494 acres. Capital value, £247. Half-yearly rent, £4 18s. 10d.

Weighted with £500, value of improvements consisting of felling, grassing, fencing, plantations, dwelling, and wool-shed. This amount may be either paid in cash or secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent; term, thirty years; interest, at 6 per cent. per annum.

Situated on the Raetihi–Ohura Road, about twenty-five miles from Raetihi Railway-station and three miles from the Ruatiti School. Dairy factory at Raetihi. Fairly steep country, broken with some dangerous gorges, and carrying light soil on sandstone. All felled and grassed, but second growth is bad. A nice homestead-site. Suitable for grazing. Altitude, 1,130 ft. to 1,850 ft. above sea-level.

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, 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.