2660
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 19th August, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and section 20 of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1923, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 6th October, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, at 10.30 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 10th October, 1930, but if any applicant so desires 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.

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 preceding date of 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; and to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s forces in connection 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.

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

Wairoa County.—Tuahu Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block X: Area, 1,525 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £2,500. Half-yearly rent, £62 10s.

The following improvements, valued at £1,750, are included in capital value: 650 acres bush felled and grassed, 200 chains of seven-wire fencing, four-roomed cottage, iron whare, harness-shed and store-room, cow-shed and yard.

Situated forty miles from Wairoa Railway-station, and ten miles from Waikatea School, Ruakituri Valley, and forty miles from Wairoa Dairy Factory. Well watered by permanent streams. 575 acres in fair pasture, 75 acres in second growth and fern, 650 acres bush land felled and grassed, 875 acres bush. Formerly part of Small Grazing-run 94.

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, Gisborne.

E. H. FARNIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/10998.)

Lands in Nelson Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 19th August, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, at 2 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 22nd September, 1930, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Township of Takaka.

SECTION 15, Block X, Waitapu Survey District: Area, 12·6 perches. Upset price, £115.

Section 16, Block X, Waitapu Survey District: Area, 12·9 perches. Upset price, £115.

Sections are situated with a frontage to Commercial Road, the main street of Takaka Township, and are suitable for business-sites. Sections all have a frontage of 45·96 links to the main street.

Terms of Payment.

Cash: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer; balance payable, together with £1 (Crown-grant fee) within thirty days thereafter.

Deferred Payments: Five per cent. of purchase-money, together with £1 1s. (license fee), to be paid on the fall of the hammer. The balance of the purchase-money, with interest thereon at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum, to be paid by instalments extending over a period of 34½ years. In addition to the prescribed half-yearly instalments the purchaser may, on making any such payment, pay any sum or sums, not less than £5 or multiple of £5, in reduction of the purchase-money. Upon receipt of the final instalment, a certificate of title in respect of the land purchased shall issue, upon payment of the prescribed Crown-grant fee. 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 the sale be null and void.

The lands are described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 1913/854.)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that HIKU KOROI, of Maraeroa, Hokianga, Contractor, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at the Courthouse, Kaikohe, on Monday, the 25th day of August, 1930, at 11 o’clock a.m.

Dated at Whangarei, this 11th day of August, 1930.

A. L. TRESIDDER,
Official Assignee.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM DANIEL PARKES, of New Plymouth, Engineer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office on Friday, the 22nd day of August, 1930, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 13th day of August, 1930.

J. S. S. MEDLEY,
Deputy Official Assignee.