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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

Ohura County.—Second-class Land.

Section 7, Block VII, Waro Survey District: Area, 434 acres. Capital value, £220. Half-yearly rent, £4 8s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years provided improvements to the value of £22 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £220, valuation for improvements comprising fencing, felling, and grassing, which is payable in cash or by a deposit of £20; balance of £200 to be secured by an instalment mortgage for a period of 34½ years; interest 5½ per cent. No exemption from payment of interest is allowed under the mortgage.

A grazing farm on the Tongaporutu-Mangaroa Road, twelve miles from Ohura Railway-station and one mile from Waitaanga School. There are no buildings on the land, which comprises 70 acres poor pasture, 70 acres worn-out pasture and reverted; balance bush and scrub.

Section 2, Block VII, Aria Survey District: Area, 826 acres. Capital value, £400. Half-yearly rent, £8.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years provided improvements to the value of £40 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £200, valuation for improvements comprising two-roomed whare, 200 chains fencing, and about 400 acres felling and grassing, which is payable in cash or by a deposit of £20; the balance will be secured by an instalment mortgage for a period of 34½ years; interest, 5½ per cent. No exemption from interest is allowed under the mortgage.

· A dairying and grazing farm situated on the Pirere Road, about fourteen miles from Matiere Railway-station, six miles from Rira School, and eleven miles and a half from Aria Dairy Factory. Comprises 200 acres of flat and undulating country; balance hilly. Soil is of a light nature. Well watered by streams.

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 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.

Applicants will appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 21st March, 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 on the 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.

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SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wallace County.—Jacobs River Hundred.

SECTION 2, Block XXII: Area, 294 acres 3 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £1,200. Half-yearly rent, £30.

Situated four miles and a half from Fairfax Railway-station, school, and dairy factory.

Undulating land; well watered. Originally worked out bush, but now about 180 acres felled and grassed, carrying good pasture. Suitable for dairying. Altitude, 400 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level.

The improvements, included in the capital value of the land, comprise cottage, fencing, and grassing.

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.

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 March, 1929.

Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 5th February, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 12th day of March, 1929, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.