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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 84

Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th December, 1935.

The land described in the First Schedule is offered in terms of the Land Act, 1924, and may be selected on renewable lease—term, sixty-six years. The land described in the Second Schedule is offered in terms of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and may be selected on renewable lease—term, thirty-three years.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 18th December, 1935, 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rangitikei County.—Ohinewairua Survey District.

(NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.)

(Exempt from payment of rent for two years.)

PART Section 5, Block V: Area, 571 acres 1 rood 8 perches. Capital value, £570; half-yearly rent, £11 8s.

Weighted with £258 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, consisting of dwelling, washhouse, wood-shed, hay-shed, cow-shed, motor-shed, 9 acres grassed, 44 chains road fencing, 70 chains subdivisional fencing, 13 chains ½ in. iron pipe and tracks. (N.B.—It must be noted that some of the improvements enumerated are situated on the surveyed road and the successful applicant must remove them when required to do so.)

There are a certain number of fencing-posts on the property and the successful applicant may acquire same by arrangement with the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

A grazing property, situated on the right bank of the Hautapu River, with a frontage to the main Taihape Road, about one mile from Hihitahi Railway-station, and thirteen miles from Taihape. The section is undulating to high and broken country. Natural clearing, in grass and tussock, comprises approximately 76 acres, portion of which has been ploughed and sown; the balance comprises milled bush.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS (SETTLEMENT) LAND.

Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.—Coyle Settlement.

SECTION 18: Area, 200 acres. Capital value, £850*; half-yearly rent, £21 5s.

*Improvements included in the capital value comprise felling and grassing, stumping, 34 chains of road fencing, 150 chains of boundary-fencing, 134 chains of subdivisional fencing, and plantations.

Weighted with the sum of £350 for buildings, repayable in cash or over a period of twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £13 13s.

This property, which is suitable for dairying and sheep, is situated on Makotuku Valley Road, one mile and a half from Makotuku School, two miles and a half from Horopito Post-office and Railway-station, and five miles and a half from Raetihi Dairy Factory and Saleyards. The area comprises easy country, mostly ploughable when stumped. The pastures, with the exception of that on approximately 20 acres in front of the section, are poor. The soil is of light loam resting on papa and sandstone formation; watered by streams and springs. Property is subdivided into nine paddocks. Altitude 2,200 ft. above sea-level.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. X/95/23 and 26/11338.)

Reserve in Westland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 13th November, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the reserve described in the Schedule hereto will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 17th December, 1935, under the provisions of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

SCHEDULE.

CATTLE-RESTING RESERVE.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

PART Reserve 345, Block V, Poerua Survey District: Area, 4 acres. Upset annual rental, £1.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Leasing.

(1) The lease shall be for a term of twenty-one years from the first day of January, 1936, but the lessor shall have the right in the event of the land being required for any purpose to determine the lease on giving to the lessee twelve months’ notice in writing of the intention in that behalf.

(2) Six months’ rent, together with £1 1s. lease fee, shall be paid immediately on acceptance of bid. Thereafter rent shall be paid half-yearly in advance on the first days of January and July in each year during the currency of the lease.

(3) The property shall be weighted with £199 10s. for improvements. Should the purchaser of the lease be any person other than the person entitled to receive payment for the improvements, the amount of £199 10s. shall, on the fall of the hammer, be paid in cash to the Receiver of Land Revenue.

(4) The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and other assessments levied against the land.

(5) The lessee shall keep all buildings, fences, drains, &c., in repair and watercourses clear from weeds to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hokitika.

(6) The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

(7) The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of noxious weeds on the land, and shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all noxious weeds or plants as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(8) The lessee shall not remove gravel without the previous written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(9) No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause, but at the expiration or sooner determination of the lease the lessee shall be entitled to remove any yards, buildings, or fences paid for or erected by him on the land.

(10) The lessee shall have no right to any minerals on the land.

(11) If the lessee fails to fulfil any of the conditions of the lease within thirty days after the date on which the same should be fulfilled the lessor shall have the right to re-enter and determine the lease.

Any further particulars required may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

T. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 1913/1315.)

Education Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 7th November, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Friday, 20th December, 1935, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF GORE.

LOT 12 of 23, Block XVI: Area, 32 perches. Upset annual rental, £2 10s.

Weighted with £123 (to be paid in cash) for buildings and fencing.

Situated in Wigan Street, about half a mile from post-office.