2618 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 67

Lands in Wellington Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 2nd October, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Wellington Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Education Reserve in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th October, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 18th October, 1929.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Maungamangero Survey District.

SECTION 13A, Block VII; Area, 192 acres. Capital value, £75. Half-yearly rent, £1 10s.

Weighted with £200, value of improvements comprising milking-shed, approximately 150 chains fencing, felling, and grassing. This amount, together with loading of £430, on Sections 11A and 12A, is repayable either in cash or by an instalment mortgage to the Superintendent, State Advances Department, for a period of thirty years; interest, 5 per cent.; half-yearly instalment, £20 7s. 5d. Free of interest for two years from date of selection.

Grazing property, situated twenty-three miles from Te Kuiti Railway-station and three miles from Waitanguru School. Whole area has been felled and grassed, now about half reverted to second growth, with ragwort spreading. Watered by creeks.

NOTE.—Section is offered conjointly with Sections 11A and 12A, Block VII, Maungamangero Survey District, and the State Advances mortgage will be taken over all sections.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, thirty-three years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years, but without right of purchase.

2. Rent, 4 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 statutory declaration with applications, and, on being declared successful, deposit £2 2s. (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, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th October, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 18th 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.