1956
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 26th July, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenure under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 11th September, 1933.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 13th September, 1933, 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 ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Rimu Survey District.

(Exempt from the payment of rent or interest for four years.)

SECTION 29, Block XIV: Area, 176 acres 2 roods 24 perches. Capital value, £50. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 9s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1.

Weighted with £40 (payable in cash), for improvements consisting of 40 acres felled and grassed, £20; half value south boundary-fencing, 50 chains, £15; hut and shed (in bad state of repair), £5.

The section is situated about two miles from Puketiro Railway-station, School, and Post-office, on the Puketiro-Kahuika Road. The section is broken and backlying; about 140 acres is in standing bush consisting mostly of kami, balance felled. The soil is of a light peaty loam resting on clay and rock bottom; watered by creeks.

Special Condition.—After payment of first half-year’s rent, broken period rent, and lease fee, or deposit on deferred payments (as the case may be), no further rent, or such parts of the instalments on deferred payment as consist of interest, will be demanded for four years.

Application forms and any further information desired may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/1098/556.)

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Land in Otago Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 25th July, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Monday, 28th August, 1933, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under section 152 of the Land Act, 1924.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—LAND OF SPECIAL VALUE.

Waitaki County.—Papakaiō Survey District.

SECTION 197, Block II: Area, 6 acres 0 roods 22 perches. Upset price, £36.

The section, which is situated on the Pukeuri–Kurow Road about six miles from Oamaru Post-office, comprises about 4 acres of flat land, and the balance was at one time a lagoon, which is now practically dry. The soil is of good quality resting on a clay and gravel formation, and water is available from the lagoon.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 8/9/265.)

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Pastoral Run in Otago Land District for License.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 26th July, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 28th August, 1933, under the provisions of section 250 of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Waitaki County.

RUNS 209 and 217B: Area, 19,405 acres. Upset annual rental, £280.

Weighted with £4,155 5s., for improvements consisting of boundary and internal fencing, £2,445 5s.; two huts, £180; yards, £30; grassing, £1,500. This sum is payable in cash.

Access to the runs is from Herbert, which is about seven miles distant by clay road; access also from Maheno, about sixteen miles distant, by metalled road about eight miles, balance clay road. The altitude ranges from 1,200 ft. to 3,500 ft.

Run 209 is a poor one, for the most part consisting of flat, sour tops, with big snow-grass, while the southern slopes facing the Waianakarua River are covered with manuka. A small portion of the northern slopes contains fair grazing.

Run 217B for the most part has a southerly aspect, with rough snow-grass predominating on the higher levels. There is some good grazing in the gullies and lower areas lying to the north.

The estimated carrying-capacity is 5,000 sheep, including 1,500 ewes.

NOTE.—Possession to commence from 1st March, 1934.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 8/9/265.)

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Land in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 25th July, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is 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 Tuesday, 19th September, 1933.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, 21st September, 1933, at 10.30 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.

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SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wallace County.—Longwood Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block XVI: Area, 398 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £455; half-yearly rent, £11 7s. 6d.

Situated one mile and a half from Te Wae Wae Railway-station, School, and Dairy Factory. About 300 acres of the land will make good dairying or sheep country when felled and grassed, the balance being steep and of poor quality.

The improvements included in the capital value comprise two huts, cow-byre, 140 chains fencing, &c., valued at £255.

The improvements not included in capital value, and which must be paid for separately, comprise stable, fencing, stumping, bushfelling, &c., valued at £96 11s. 10d. The latter amount is payable in cash or by a deposit of £21 11s. 10d., the balance, £75, being secured by mortgage to this Department payable over a period of twenty years (interest 6½ per cent.) by half-yearly payments of principal and interest totalling £3 6s. 2d.

Special Condition.—After payment of the first half-year’s rent and deposit on improvements, £21 11s. 10d., two years’ exemption from payment of rent will be granted conditional upon improvements to value of £50 per annum being effected during the exemption period.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Invercargill.

B. C. McCABE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/11125.)