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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

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, New Plymouth.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 10th September, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 21st October, 1929.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent upon 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.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

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

Sections 9 and 14, Block VII: Area, 470 acres 0 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £465. Half-yearly rent, £9 6s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years provided improvements to the value of £46 are effected annually.

Weighted with £430, value of improvements comprising about 95 acres good to fair pasture, about 35 acres poor pasture, and approximately 187 chains fencing (totara and rimu posts, seven-wire). This amount may be paid either in cash or by a cash deposit of £50, the balance of £380 being secured on an instalment mortgage for twenty years under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act.

Situated about eight miles from Kopaki Railway-station and four miles from Aratoro School. Cream by rail to Kopaki Dairy Factory. There are 50 acres light bush in front, on steep country, and approximately 250 acres good heavy bush on top, easy country. About 30 acres easy ploughable fern country.

Taumarunui County.—Ohura Survey District.

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

Section 8, Block XI: Area, 740 acres. Capital value, £555. Half-yearly rent, £11 2s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years provided improvements to the value of £55 are effected annually.

Weighted with £1,200, value of improvements comprising about 340 chains fencing, 400 acres felling and grassing. This amount may be either paid in cash or by arrangement left on mortgage to the State Advances Department.

Situated about seventeen miles from Taumarunui Railway-station and about four miles and a half from Tokirima School. Cream by lorry to dairy factory. Consists 300 acres light bush, and about 50 acres ploughable. Situated on sandstone-papa formation.

Patea County.—Kapara Survey District.

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

Section 14, Block IX: Area, 330 acres. Capital value, £200. Half-yearly rent, £4,

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years provided improvements to the value of £20 are effected annually.

Access to property is from Waverley or Waitotara by about seventeen miles of dray-road and about one mile pack-track. Part dray-road metalled, but mostly clay surface. 120 acres felled and grassed, and approximately 40 chains fencing, in poor order. About half the section lies well to the sun. The soil varies from fair to poor over sandstone and papa formation. In present condition, estimated to carry about twenty to thirty dry sheep and a few head of cattle.

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.

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, New Plymouth.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 18th September, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be opened for selection in terms of 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, the 15th October, 1929.

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

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.—New River Hundred.

Sections 31, 48, 49, and 50, Block X: Area, 303 acres 3 roods 11 perches. Capital value, £805. Deposit on deferred payments, £45; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £24 14s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £16 2s.

Weighted with £1,075 for improvements, of which £175 must be paid in cash, the balance to be secured by way of first mortgage for 36½ years at 5 per cent. to a discharged soldier or 34½ years at 5½ per cent. to a civilian. The improvements comprise fencing, felling, and grassing, and hut.

Situated about five miles from Makarewa Railway-station, two miles and a half from school, and seven miles from Underwood Dairy Factory. Altitude about 120 ft. above sea-level. Watered by permanent streams. These sections, which are low-lying, were originally all bush; now partly cleared and grassed. Suitable for dairying and grazing.

Title will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924.

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

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.