Aug. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2461

Weighted with £80 for improvements. This sum is payable either in cash or, after payment of a deposit of £10, by annual instalments extending over a period of seven years.

Access is from Ball Road Railway-station for a distance of eight miles by metalled road, two miles and a half by clay-road, and thirteen miles stock-track.

About 300 acres has been felled, and of this about 285 acres have been burnt and sown; this is, however, reverting to second growth. In its present condition it is estimated to carry 100 sheep.

ABSTRACT AND 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 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.

(L. and S. 9/2463.)

Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 12th August, 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, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 15th September, 1930.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 18th September, 1930, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board, or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

The sections are offered in terms of 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 soil only.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Wallace County.—Jacobs River Hundred.—Otago Mining District.

SECTIONS 32 and 33, Block XVIII: Area, 36 acres 3 roods 14 perches. Capital value, £15. Half-yearly rent, 6s.

Weighted with £3 for fencing. This sum is payable in cash.

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Land all flat and swampy; soil peaty, with heavy vegetable subsoil. Situation fair, fronts Riverton–Orepuki Railway line. Distance from Colac Railway-station, school, and post and telegraph office, one mile; and distant from Riverton, six miles.

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 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, Invercargill.

J. MACDONALD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2479.)

Land in the Southland Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 11th August, 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, Invercargill, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 15th September, 1930.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 18th September, 1930, at 10 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board, or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

SCHEDULE.

SOUTH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Campbelltown Hundred.

SECTION 59, Block IX: Area, 157 acres 0 roods 38 perches. Capital value, £325. Deposit on deferred payments, £25; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £9 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6 10s.

Weighted with £70 for improvements. This sum is payable in cash.

Situated two miles from Timpanys Railway-station, four miles from Waimatua School, and four miles from Mokotua Dairy Factory, by gravelled roads. Altitude about 72 ft. above sea-level. In its present state the land is suitable for grazing dry stock, but could be made suitable for dairying by stumping, cultivation, and regrassing.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

J. MACDONALD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/2624.)