Oct. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3227

Exempt from payment of rent for three years, provided improvements to the value of £53 are effected annually during the period of exemption.

Weighted with £260, for improvements comprising 120 acres felling and grassing, 100 chains fencing, and a hut. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £60, the balance to be secured by an instalment mortgage for twenty years at 5½ per cent. interest; half-yearly instalment, £8 6s. 2d.

Grazing property, situated on the Ohura-Waitaanga—New Plymouth Main Highway, being eight miles distant from Ohura, of which five miles are metalled and three miles formed clay-road. Undulating to hilly land, steep in places, resting on sandstone and papa formation; mostly in bush comprising rata, rimu, black tawa, with tawhero on ridges. About 170 acres have been felled and grassed, but part has now reverted to second growth.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

(Exempt from rent for three years.)

Section 2, Block VII: Area, 826 acres. Capital value, £400. Half-yearly rent, £8.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years, provided improvements to the value of £40 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £200, for improvements comprising approximately 300 chains fencing, and felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash, or by a deposit of £20, the balance to be secured by instalment mortgage for twenty years; interest, 5½ per cent.; half-yearly instalment, £7 9s. 7d.

A dairying and grazing property, situated on the Pirere Road, about fourteen miles from Matiere Railway-station, six miles from Rira School, and eleven miles and a half from Aria Dairy Factory.

Comprises about 200 acres of flat and undulating country; balance hilly. All originally bush and scrub land of which approximately 400 acres has been felled and grassed, now mostly reverted to second growth, with ragwort spreading. Soil is of a light nature; well watered by streams.

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, New Plymouth.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 26/17252 and 26/14375.)

Lands in Westland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 20th October, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 15th December, 1930.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, at 10.30 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 17th December, 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.

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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

WESTLAND MINING DISTRICT.

Runanga Borough.—Town of Runanga.

Section 10, Block X: Area, 1 rood 1 perch. Capital value, £50. Half-yearly rent, £1.

Section 1, Block XI: Area, 1 rood 1 perch. Capital value, £50. Half-yearly rent, £1.

Section 6, Block XI: Area, 1 rood 1 perch. Capital value, £50. Half-yearly rent, £1.

The Town of Runanga is situated at the State Coal-mine, about three miles by road and railway from Greymouth.

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.