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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

Loaded with £800 for improvements comprising house, shed, wash-house, cowshed, barn, approximately 200 chains fencing, felling, and grassing; to be secured by mortgages to State Advances Superintendent.

Mixed farming property situated twenty-two miles from Te Kuiti and four miles from Waitanguru School and dairy factory. Approximately 470 acres bush-land felled and grassed, now reverting to fern; 30 acres in pasture; balance standing bush. Ragwort is spreading. Property subdivided into seven paddocks. Watered by creeks.

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, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th February, 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 Thursday, 21st February, 1929.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Maungamangero Survey District.

SECTION 6, Block III: Area, 650 acres. Capital value, £325. Half-yearly rent, £6 10s.

Loaded with £600 for improvements comprising whare, wool-shed, and yards, approximately 400 chains fencing (in poor order), and clearing and grassing, which sum is payable in cash or may be left on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent: Term, thirty years; interest, 5 per cent., with two years’ remission of interest.

Grazing property, situated twenty-three miles from Te Kuiti Railway-station and eight miles from Waitanguru School. Approximately 400 acres bush-land, felled and grassed, now partially reverted to second growth; 2 acres felled and stumped; balance in standing bush. Ragwort is making an appearance. Subdivided into seven paddocks. 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 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 £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, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 14th 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 Public Hall, Matiere, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 26th March, 1929, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and amendments.

The land in the First Schedule is to be purchased for cash only; the land in the Second Schedule may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TOWN LAND.

Ohura County.—Town of Matiere.

SECTIONS 17 and 18, Block V: Area, 2 roods. Upset price, £20.

Sections 1 and 2, Block VI: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 4·1 perches. Upset price, £35.

Sections 10 and 11, Block VII: Area, 2 roods. Upset price, £20.

Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block VIII: Area, 3 roods 38·4 perches. Upset price, £25.

Sections 5, 6, and 7, Block VIII: Area, 3 roods 38·4 perches. Upset price, £20.

Sections 8 and 9, Block VIII: Area, 2 roods 25·6 perches. Upset price, £15.

Section 12, Block VIII: Area, 1 rood 12·8 perches. Upset price, £7.

Sections 1, 2, and 7, Block X: Area, 3 roods 37·6 perches. Upset price, £25.

Generally these sections comprise good level land. They vary from dry to part swampy.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

OHURA COUNTY.—TOWN OF MATIERE.

Town Land.

SECTIONS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, Block V: Area, 1 acre 2 roods. Upset price, £40.