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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, New Plymouth.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in the Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st January, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be opened for selection in terms of 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, 30th January, 1930.

The land may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.

For the purposes of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924, the land shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land,” and no general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for a period of three years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land during such period. Also, after the first half-year’s rent (or the deposit on deferred payments, as the case may be) has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent (or such part of the instalments on deferred payments as consists of interest), payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded: Provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land, the rent or interest so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent or interest payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Tauranga County.—Maketu Survey District.

(Exempt from rates and rent or interest for a period of two years.)

SECTION 5, Block XVI: Area, 494 acres. Capital value, £185. Deposit on deferred payments, £10; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £5 13s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 14s.

Weighted with £400, for improvements consisting of implement-shed, cow-byre, and separator-room, approximately 70 acres pasture, 8 acres cleared and cultivated, 300 chains fencing, cisterns and piping, Pinus Insignis and gum plantations. This sum may be paid either in cash or by a deposit of £20, balance to be secured on instalment mortgage for 34½ years, interest at 5½ per cent. Half-yearly instalments amounts to £12 7s., of which the interest portion will be remitted for two years, subject to improvements of an equivalent value being effected.

Property is suitable for grazing and dairying, and is situated approximately eight miles from Maniatutu Railway-station and approximately ten miles from Pongakawa Post-office.

Section comprises a series of dry gullies and steep hills, a considerable portion of which has been grassed, but with the exception of approximately 80 acres the whole area is now in fern and scrub. The soil is of a light pumiceous nature, requiring regular top-dressing. Section has no adequate water-supply at present.

Special Conditions.

(1) The dwelling is not included in the above valuations, but is being sold separately, and all rights necessary for its removal are reserved.

(2) All rights necessary for the effective working and maintenance of the tramway traversing this section and at present operated by the Bay of Plenty Timber Company, are reserved.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that LOUIS DANIEL COSSILL, Farmer, of Dargaville, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Dargaville, on Monday, the 27th day of January, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 14th day of January, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that PEHI KARAKA, Labourer, of Te Kohunga, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Tuesday, the 28th day of January, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 17th day of January, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that THOMAS WILLIAM DALLY, Farmer, of Waihi, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Waihi, on Monday, the 27th day of January, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 18th day of January, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that CHARLES WAY, Labourer, of Dargaville, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Dargaville, on Tuesday, the 28th day of January, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 18th day of January, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that SIDNEY GEORGE PUDNEY, of Auckland, Tailor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 31st day of January, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Auckland, this 18th day of January, 1930.

A. W. WATTERS,
Official Assignee.