1642
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

SCHEDULE.

TENURE: R.L. Lease No. 187. Section 5, Block VIII, Totoro Survey District. Lessee: K. C. Guthrie. Reason for forfeiture: Non-compliance with condition of lease.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/950/3.)

Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 13th May, 1930.

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, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 7th July, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., on Wednesday, 9th July, 1930, but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Waitaki County.—Benmore Survey District.

SECTION 13, Block I: Area, 11 acres 2 roods 29 perches. Capital value, £15. Half-yearly rental, 6s.

Weighted with £6, for improvements comprising 7½ chains road-line fencing.

Situated forty-six miles from Kurow Railway-station; eight miles from Benmore School. All in native state. No water. Suitable for grazing; but rather poor land.

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

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2400.)

Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 13th May, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the Lands Office, Timaru, on Tuesday, 10th June, 1930, at 1.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and amendments, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—GERALDINE COUNTY.—KAKAHU SETTLEMENT.

SECTION part 4, Block XII, Opihi Survey District: Area, 20 acres (subject to survey). Upset price, £725.

This area comprises fairly good agricultural and pastoral land, situated approximately three-quarters of a mile from Hilton Post-office and one mile and a half from school. Access is by a good gravelled road from Hilton, and a cream lorry passes the property. The improvements comprise a wooden dwellinghouse and leanto, washhouse, shed, fowl-house, rough stable, fencing, dam, plantation, and garden. The dwelling, containing six rooms, bathroom and veranda, is built mostly of pinus insignis timber. It is scrimmed and papered, and has electric light and hot and cold water service installed. The area is very suitable for any one working in the locality desirous of obtaining a good home with sufficient area on which to supplement his wages.

Terms of Sale.

The purchaser may pay for the land in cash or by deferred payments extending over a period of 34½ years. The terms are:—

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

2. Deferred Payments: £40 of the purchase-money and licensee fee (£1 1s.) on the fall of the hammer, balance by equal half-yearly instalments of principal and interest extending over 34½ years, but with the right to pay off at any time the whole or any part of the outstanding amount. In either case, if the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, whether of purchase-money or interest, the amount (if any) already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for sale of the land shall be null and void.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

W. STEWART,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/5367.)

Lands in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 13th May, 1930.

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, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 7th July, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 9th July, 1930, 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.

The land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose right shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD CLASS LAND.

Tuapeka County.—Benger Survey District.—Otago Mining District.

SECTION 11, Block XII: Area, 222 acres 1 rood 36 perches. Capital value, £110. Half-yearly rent, £2 4s.

Improvements to be paid for in cash: Half-share of 40 chains boundary-fencing adjoining Sections 12 and 13, at 6s. 6d. per chain, £6 10s.; half-share of 15 chains boundary-fencing adjoining Section 10, at 10s. per chain, £3 15s.: Total, £10 5s.

Situated on the north-eastern bank of the Clutha River. Access from Miller’s Flat, three miles and a half distant, by good road. Steep rocky faces; soil of a poor schisty nature, resting on rock; well watered by streams and river. General quality fairly poor.

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, Dunedin.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.