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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

after taking into consideration the experience and skill of
the applicants in farming operations, the proximity of their
homes to the lands the subject-matter of the ballot, and any
other relevant considerations, is of opinion that they should be
entitled to preference equally with applicants of any of the
hereinbefore specified classes.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Karioi Survey District.

SECTIONS 6, 7, and 8, Block V: Area, 381 acres 3 roods.
Capital value, £190. Deposit on deferred payments, £10.
Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £5 17s. Renew-
able lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 16s.

Weighted with £600, for improvements consisting of felling,
grassing, stumping, fencing, cow-shed, and separator-room.
This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £20, and
the balance being secured by a first mortgage repayable by
half-yearly instalments of principal and interest over a period
of approximately thirty-five years.

Situated between the Mangateitei and Mangahuehue
Streams with a frontage to the Mangateitei Road, about one
mile and a half from Rangataua Railway-station by metalled
road. The store is at Rangataua, about one mile and a half
distant. Level to easy rolling country, pasture poor and
running out; 196 acres have been felled and grassed, 40
acres swamp, and balance milled bush. The soil is of light
quality volcanic mixture, resting on clay and shingle formation.
Altitude about 1,800 ft. above sea-level.

Special Condition.—The property is offered subject to
existing tramway and water rights.

Full particulars can be obtained from the Commissioner
of Crown Lands, Wellington.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Gisborne Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 15th January, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small
grazing-run is open for selection in terms of the Land
Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District
Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on
Thursday, 30th January, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board
for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, on Friday, 31st January, 1930, but if any applicant
so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any
other district.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants
who have one or more children dependent on them; to land-
less applicants who, within two years immediately preceding
date of ballot, have applied for land at least twice unsuccess-
fully; 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; to applicants who,
while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New
Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s Forces in con-
nection with any war other than the war with Germany; and
to landless applicants in respect of whom the Board, after
taking into consideration the experience and skill of the ap-
plicants in farming operations, the proximity of their homes
to the lands the subject-matter of the ballot, and any other
relevant considerations, is of opinion that they should be
entitled to preference equally with applicants of any of the
hereinbefore specified classes.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wairoa County.—Taramarama Survey District.

RUN No. 66. Section 1, Block VI: Area, 1,894 acres. Capital
value, £4,676. Small grazing-run: Yearly rent, £115.

Weighted with £1,835, for improvements consisting of
wool-shed and yard, whare, seven miles fencing, 800 acres
felled and grassed. This sum is payable in cash.

Situated on the Waikaremoana Road, distant about sixteen
miles from Frasertown and twenty-one miles from Wairoa by
a well formed metalled road. Property also fronts on to the
main road to Tuai and Lake Waikaremoana. Block comprises
principally easy hill country, of which a fair amount is plough-
able. Well watered by springs and good running streams.
Soil light to fair generally, of pumicious nature. Block
originally covered with manuka scrub and fern with light and
mixed bush in gullies.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

Small Grazing-run.

1. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.
2. Terms of lease: Twenty-one years, with right of renewal;
   or in the event of subdivision into allotments, right to a lease
   of one allotment, compensation for loss of right to new lease
   of other allotments, and valuation for improvements.
3. Rent commences from date of lease, and is payable
   half-yearly, in advance, on 1st March and 1st September in
   each year.
4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applica-
   tions, 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 March or 1st September following
   is also payable.
5. No person may hold more than one run, except on the
   recommendation of the Land Board, and with the approval
   of the Minister of Lands.
6. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the run
   within one year to the value of one year’s rental; within two
   years to the value of two years’ rental, and within six years
   to the value of four years’ rental. In addition to the fore-
   going, on bush land, improvements are also to be effected
   within six years to the value of 10s. per acre for every acre of
   first-class land, and 5s. per acre for every acre of second-class
   land. Any money paid as valuation for improvements will
   be allowed as substantial improvements upon the land.
7. On expiry of term of lease, lessee’s improvements will
   be valued and protected.
8. Residence must commence within three years in the case
   of bush land or swamp land, and within one year in the case
   of open or partly open land, and be continuous until the
   expiration of the lease. Under certain conditions personal
   residence may be dispensed with after ten years.
9. Roads may be taken without payment of compensation.
10. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Land in Southland Land District for Selection on
Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 15th January, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land
is open for selection on renewable lease under the
Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925,
and amendments, and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock
p.m. on Tuesday, the 18th February, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board
for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, on Thursday, 20th February, 1930, 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 upon 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 pre-
ceeding 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; to applicants who,
while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New
Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s Forces in con-
nection with any war other than the war with Germany, and
to landless applicants in respect of whom the Board, after
taking into consideration the experience and skill of the
applicants in farming operations, the proximity of their homes
to the lands the subject-matter of the ballot, and any other
relevant considerations, is of opinion that they should be
entitled to preference equally with applicants of any of the
hereinbefore specified classes.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLE-
MENT LAND.

Southland County.—New River Hundred.—Monte Cristo
Settlement.

(Exempt from payment of rent for one year.)

SECTION 4s: Area, 117 acres 1 rood 30 perches. Capital
value, £1,250. Half-yearly rent, £31 5s.

Weighted with £500, value of improvements comprising
buildings, fencing, and draining. This sum is payable either