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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

5. The plantation on Section 5s is not to be cut or interfered with in any way except with the permission of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and on such conditions as he may impose.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 24th day of February, 1930.
GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and amendments, I, Michael Myers, Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.
Tuapeka County.—Wilden Settlement.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Section 8s: Area, 563 acres. Capital value, £5,910. Half-yearly rent, £147 15s.
Section 9s: Area, 585 acres. Capital value, £5,850. Half-yearly rental, £146 5s.
Section 11s: Area, 663 acres. Capital value, £5,800. Half-yearly rental, £145.
Section 12s: Area, 902 acres. Capital value, £7,200. Half-yearly rental, £180.
Section 13s: Area, 740 acres. Capital value, £6,660. Half-yearly rental, £166 10s.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Section 6s: Area, 1,356 acres. Capital value, £7,460. Half-yearly rental, £186 10s.
Section 7s: Area, 1,956 acres. Capital value, £7,880. Half-yearly rental, £197.
Section 10s: Area, 1,260 acres. Capital value, £7,550. Half-yearly rental, £188 15s.
Section 1s (homestead): Area, 3,913 acres. Capital value, £15,080 (buildings, £2,200). Half-yearly rental, £377 (half-yearly instalment on buildings, £66).
Section 2s: Area, 3,140 acres. Capital value, £8,960. Half-yearly rental, £224.
Section 3s: Area, 4,236 acres. Capital value, £7,650. Half-yearly rental, £191 5s.
Section 4s: Area, 2,686 acres. Capital value, £7,500. Half-yearly rental, £187 10s.
Section 5s: Area, 2,005 acres. Capital value, £5,000. Half-yearly rental, £125.

IMPROVEMENTS.

(1) The improvements which are not included in the capital values, but which must be paid for separately, are as follows:—
Section 1s (Homestead): Buildings comprising a dwellinghouse of 11 rooms, 2 bathrooms, lavatory, 3 single and 1 double chimneys, electric light, telephone; washhouse and coalhouse; also slaughter-house, chaff-house, smithy, bathroom and showers, cookhouse, hut with range, meat-safe; stable, loose-boxes, chaff-house, garage, and implement-shed, cow-byre, dip and yards, yards and gates at woolshed; water-supply to dip and tanks, and part of shearing-shed. The electrical equipment, plant and fittings, including pumping-plant and motor, are included with the buildings. In addition, there are sundry miscellaneous erections around the homestead. Total value, £2,200, payable in cash or by seventy-three (73) half-yearly instalments of £66. Total half-yearly payment, £443.

The following buildings are not included, but are reserved to the Crown for subsequent disposal:—
(a) All that portion of the wool-shed west of the door situated on the north side of the main buildings, and leaving approximately 60 ft. of the latter.
(b) Barn and loft.
(c) Small loose-box stable.
(d) Shearers’ quarters, except the bathroom and fittings.
(e) All sledge-huts except one.

Section 9s: Approximately 137½ acres of young grass and turnips, valued at £171, payable in cash.
Section 2s: Hut, valued at £15, payable in cash.

(2) The improvements which are included in the capital values comprise the boundary and internal fencing, and the plantation on Sections 1s, 4s, and 8s, valued as follows:—
Section 1: Fencing, £857 15s. 6d.; plantation, £325.
Section 2, £566 4s. Section 3, £881 6s. 6d.
Section 4, £601 18s. 6d.; plantation, £50.
Section 5, £449 17s. Section 6, £248 4s. 6d.
Section 7, £279 10s. 6d. Section 8, £190 16s. 6d.; plantation, £30. Section 9, £200 18s. Section 10, £182 7s. Section 11, £150 11s. 6d. Section 12, £67 12s. Section 13, £79 10s.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

1. All root-crops (except those on Section 9s) are especially reserved to the Crown, which also reserves the right, either by itself or by proxy—
   (a) To enter with stock on Sections 1s, 2s, 4s, and 6s for the purpose of feeding off the turnip crops now growing thereon, up to not later than 30th September, 1930.
   (b) To enter any section with vehicles or plant, for the purposes of erecting such temporary fences as may be considered necessary.
   (c) To have such accommodation as may be necessary for a run-off from the turnip-lands on to pasture land adjoining. A rebate of rent will be made equivalent to 5s. (five shillings) per acre for the area so reserved and occupied of turnip and grass lands, and of 2s. (two shillings) per acre for tussock land.

2. The Crown also reserves all other crops and the right, either by itself or by proxy, to enter on Sections 1s, 2s, 4s, and 8s for the purpose of harvesting, chaff-cutting, threshing, and removal of such crops up to 31st December, 1930. No claim or rebate of rent will be recognized or allowed in respect of this reservation, but due care and attention will be given of the respective tenants’ interests. Selectors will be given an opportunity of purchasing, at the discretion of the Crown, such portions of the grain, chaff, or turnips as may be available for sale.

3. The Crown reserves the right up to 30th June, 1931, to remove the buildings reserved by it in Section 1s. These buildings, excepting the huts, will be offered, in the first instance, to selectors, either by tender or by auction. The huts will be valued and offered for immediate removal.

SPECIAL, REGARDING FENCING.

4. The Crown will contribute the half-cost of fencing 236 chains of new roadline abutting or intersecting Sections 8s, 9s, 11s, and 12s, provided the estimates of cost and details of construction are first approved of by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin, before the work is commenced.

5. Section 10s: A portion of the fencing (26½ chains approximately) is valued for removal to the boundary between Sections 10s. and 11s.

6. Section 2s: A portion of the fencing apposite the north-east boundary of Section 5s is valued for removal to boundary between Sections 2s and 5s.

EASEMENTS.

The leases of Sections 1s and 4s will be subject to a water-easement reserving to the lessee of Section 1s the dam and race on Section 4s, with full rights of ingress, egress, and regress for the purpose of inspecting, cleaning, or repairing same.

Temporary access down the present track through Sections 7s, 8s, and 11s is reserved to give access to Sections 7s, 10s, and 11s until the permanent road is formed.

Temporary access is reserved through Section 2 to give access to Section 6s until all crops are removed and until permanent access is provided for Section 6s.

The right is reserved to the Southland Electric-power Board, without payment of compensation, to continue the present electric-power line serving Section 1s, and to erect any other line or lines through or serving the settlement.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Wilden Settlement is situated in the Wart Hill, Greenvale, and Crookston Survey Districts, the nearest part of the property being about four miles from Edievale Railway-station, post-office, and telegraph-office, school, and store,