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SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF FORTROSE.

SECTION 1, Block V: Area, 36 perches. Upset price, £8. Weighted with £1, valuation for fencing.

Section 3, Block V: Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £8. Weighted with £1 2s. 6d., valuation for fencing.

Section 45, Block IV: Area, 4 acres 1 rood. Upset price, £80. Weighted with £9 2s., valuation for fencing.

Situated on the sea-coast, four miles and a half by good road from Waimahaka Railway-station. Suitable for building-sites.

Conditions of Sale.

Sections 1 and 3, Block V, are offered for sale for cash only, and Section 45, Block IV, for cash or on deferred payments.

The terms are—

1. Cash: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee (£1) and valuation for improvements, within thirty days thereafter.

2. Deferred Payments: Five per cent. of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. (license fee) and valuation for improvements, to be paid on the fall of the hammer. 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.

The licensee shall have the right at any time during the currency of his license to pay off either the whole of the purchase-money or any half-yearly instalment or instalments thereof then remaining unpaid.

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 the amount (if any) already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale be null and void.

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

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

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 4th February, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 12th March, 1929.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, the 14th March, 1929, at 10 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 conclusion of 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 the 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Tarawera Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of Rent for Five Years.)

SECTION 3, Block VII: Area, 1,724 acres. Capital value, £2,500. Half-yearly rent, £50.

Situated about forty-eight miles from Napier. The main Napier–Taupo Road traverses the entire length of the holding from south to north; telephone bureau and hotel being situated in the centre of the section. Soil generally is of light pumice character, and the country is for the most part open, with patches of native grass and small area of bush. Well watered by the Waipunga River and other smaller streams.

The fencing, which is valued at £150, is included in the price of the land.

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, Napier.

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand (Northern District).

NOTICE OF ORDER ANNULLING AN ADJUDICATION.
No. 1928/121.

In the matter of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, and in the matter of ELLEN STEVENSON, of Auckland, Married Woman, possessed of separate estate, a bankrupt.

TAKE notice that, on the application of the above-named bankrupt, and on reading the motion and affidavit filed herein and hearing Mr. F. C. Jordan for the said Ellen Stevenson, it is ordered that the order of adjudication dated 3rd day of October, 1928, against Ellen Stevenson aforesaid be annulled.

Dated at Auckland, this 25th day of January, 1929.

G. N. MORRIS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court held at Hamilton.

NOTICE is hereby given that a statement of accounts and balance-sheet in respect of the undermentioned estate, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, has been duly filed in the above Court, and I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the said Court, to be held on Tuesday, the 26th day of February, 1929, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as application may be heard, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estate.

Harold Elliott Porritt, of Pukeroro, Cambridge, Farmer.

J. H. ROBERTSON,
Official Assignee.

Hamilton, 5th February, 1929.