JUNE 26.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
These sections are situated on the Maungapurua Valley
Road, thirty-eight miles from Raetihi Railway-station, post-
office, dairy factory, and saleyards, and one mile from Maunga-
purua School. Access by seventeen miles of metalled road ;
balance formed road. Sections comprise principally rough
hilly land. Soil of fair to medium loam resting on papa and
sandstone formation. Well watered. Altitude, 600 ft. to
1,600 ft. above sea-level.
Sections 6 and 8, Block IV : Area, 1,587 acres 2 roods.
Capital value, £400. Half-yearly rent, £8.
Weighted with £425, for improvements consisting of felling,
grassing, fencing, whare, &c. This sum is payable in cash
or by cash deposit of £75; balance being secured on instal-
ment mortgage under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement
Act, for a term not exceeding 36½ years, and bearing interest
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum to a discharged soldier,
or 5½ per cent. per annum to a civilian.
These sections are situated on the watershed of the Morinui
and Ruatiti Streams, with frontage to Raetihi-Ohura Road.
Access from Raetihi Railway-station, thirty miles distant—
twelve miles metalled road, balance formed dray-road. About
570 acres have been felled and grassed, now reverting to second
growth with exception of approximately 120 acres still carrying
fair grazing; balance of area is in standing bush. Forest
consists of beech, tawhero, matai, and rimu. Soil of light
loam on sandstone and papa formation. Well watered.
Altitude, 2,000 ft. to 2,900 ft. above sea-level.
Section 13, Block XII : Area, 1,120 acres. Capital value,
£420. Half-yearly rent, £8 8s.
Weighted with £350, for improvements consisting of felling
and grassing 400 acres, fencing, whare, and yards. This sum
may be paid in cash, or secured on mortgage to Superintendent,
State Advances Department, for a term of thirty years at
6 per cent. interest per annum.
Situated at the headwaters of the Piraruke Stream with
frontages to Pehu Road and Murumuru Road. Access is
from Raetihi Railway-station, twenty-three miles distant by
thirteen miles of metalled dray-road, and ten miles formed
dray-road. Comprises 400 acres worn-out pasture subdivided
into three paddocks, and 720 acres of bush land. Suitable
for grazing. Soil is of fair quality, resting on sandstone and
papa formation. Watered by permanent streams and springs.
Forest consists of tawa, rimu, matai, rata, and sufficient
totara for fencing. Altitude, 1,300 ft. to 2,150 ft.
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 applica-
   tions, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 ls. (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 fore-
   going, 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 circum-
    stances, 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, Wellington.
    H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
    Commissioner of Crown Lands.
    (L. and S. 9/2412.)
    G
    2061
    Lands in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable
    Lease.
    District Lands and Survey Office,
    Nelson, 24th June, 1930.
    NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections
    are open for selection on renewable lease under the
    Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the
    District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 4 o'clock
    p.m. on Monday, 11th August, 1930.
    Applicants should appear before the Land Board for
    examination at 10 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, 14th August,
14. The ballot will be held immediately after the examina-
    tion.
    SCHEDULE.
    NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
    FIRST-CLASS LAND.
    Murchison County.—Tutaki Survey District.
    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT LAND.
    SECTION 21, Block I: Area, 2 acres. Capital value, £20.
    Half-yearly rent, 8s.
    Situated in Murchison Village, and access is from Kawatiri
    Railway-station, which is about twenty-three miles distant
    by metalled road. All flat land. Bush has been felled, but
    section is now in a bad state with blackberry and fern. The
    section is well watered with creek. There is also 5½ chains of
    fencing on the property.
    SECOND-CLASS LAND.
    Murchison County.—Maruia Survey District.
    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT LAND.—WESTPORT MINING DISTRICT.
    (Exempt from rent for a period of ten years.)
    Part I of Section 3, Block XV: Area, 323 acres 2 roods.
    Capital value, £195. Half-yearly rent, £3 18s.
    Situated in the Maruia Valley, twenty-two miles from
    Murchison Dairy Factory. Two miles and a half from house-
    hold school and opposite telephone-office. Access by metalled
    road for twenty miles, two miles unmetalled; thence across
    Maruia River. There is also a road on the western bank of
    the river which gives direct access to this section. About
    55 acres of flat and terrace land; balance hillside. About
    15 acres has been felled and grassed; balance medium birch
    bush. Soil of good quality on flats fair on hillside. Well
    watered. Altitude, 1,000 ft. to 1,900 ft. above sea-level.
    Special Condition.—This section is subject to section 153
    of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any
    mineral, mineral oil, gas, metal, or valuable stone under the
    surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose right shall be to the
    surface only.
    Buller County.—Ngakawau Survey District.
    WESTPORT HARBOUR ENDOWMENT.
    Section 4, Block VI: Area, 9 acres 0 roods 20 perches.
    Capital value, £25. Half-yearly rent, 10s.
    The section is situated between the Millerton Road, and the
    Millerton incline at Granite. The access is from the above
    road, and is about half a mile from the Granite Station,
    school, and post-office. The land is all hillside, and is com-
    prised of bush and scrub. Soil fair on sandstone formation.
    Section well watered by creek. No buildings.
    Buller County.—Oparara Survey District.
    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT LAND.
    Section 86, Block IX: Area, 386 acres 2 roods 39 perches.
    Capital value, £290. Half-yearly rent, £5 16s.
    Weighted with £260, for improvements consisting of 80
    acres felled and grassed and 34 chains of fencing. This sum
    must be paid in cash.
    The section is about one mile and a quarter from Market
    Cross by good metalled road, and is situated at Baker's Creek.
    It is all hilly with the exception of very small flats along the
    banks of the creek. Eighty acres has been felled and grassed
    and partly logged-up. Clearing going back to fern and
    second growth. Soil fair quality on papa formation. Bush
    is of rata, beech, rimu, &c., of no commercial value. The
    section is well watered by creeks.
    THIRD-CLASS LAND.
    Waimea County.—Owen Survey District.
    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT LAND.
    (Exempt from rent for a period of four years.)
    Section 6, Block VIII: Area, 152 acres. Capital value, £40.
    Half-yearly rent, 16s.