JULY 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1421

Weighted with £385 for improvements, consisting of dwelling, clearing and grassing, and fencing. This sum is payable in cash or the total amount may remain on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, payable over a period of thirty years by means of quarterly instalments of principal and interest combined with interest at the rate ruling as at the date of selection.

A grazing property, situated on the Mairoa-Waitanguru Road, three miles from Mairoa Post-office and School, and twenty miles from Te Kuiti Railway-station and Dairy Factory. Access by metalled road. Undulating to hilly land watered by running streams. Approximately 160 acres in worn-out pasture, 250 acres bush land felled and grassed (now reverted), balance in natural state of standing bush.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(Files: H.O. 31/58; D.O. R.L. 1807.)

Settlement Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 22nd July, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 7th September, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, 9th September, 1936, 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.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Clutha County.—Pomahaka Survey District.—Pomahaka Downs Settlement.

SECTION 45, Block XI: Area, 169 acres 3 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £510; half-yearly rent, £12 15s.

Weighted with £272 (to be paid in cash) for improvements comprising dwelling and fencing.

The section is situated about two miles and a half from Popotunoa School and about nine miles from Clinton on main road. The area comprises mostly light loam on clay formation; watered by creek and springs. Altitude approximately 400 ft. About 150 acres suitable for growing cereal and green crops, also turnips. The pasture is worn out and considerable development-work is required.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 18861.)

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th July, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for lease by public auction at this office on Tuesday, 8th September, 1936, 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 INVERCARGILL.

SECTION 12, Block LVIII: Area, 1 rood. Upset annual rental, £13.

Weighted with £460 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising three wooden dwellinghouses and outhouses. Section conveniently situated.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Possession will be given on date of sale.
2. Six months’ rent at the rate offered and rent for the broken period, weighting for improvements, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), must be deposited on acceptance of bid.
3. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with perpetual right of renewal for further similar terms at rentals on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.
4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges, and yield up all improvements in good repair and condition at the expiration of the lease.
6. Lessee not to transfer, mortgage, sublet, or subdivide without consent of the Land Board.
7. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive trade upon the land.
8. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without consent of the Land Board.
9. No liability is accepted on the part of the Crown or of the Land Board to pay to the lessee any compensation for improvements, but if the lease is not renewed upon expiration, or if it is sooner determined, the new lease offered for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment by the incoming tenant of an amount equal to the value of buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee, and the amount so paid by the incoming tenant shall be paid to the original lessee without any deduction except for rent or other payments in arrear.
10. Lease liable to termination if conditions are violated.
11. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
12. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be paid on rent in arrear.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned,

THOMAS CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,

(L. and S. 20/852.)

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Rotorua, 20th July, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned blocks of milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Rotorua, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 7th day of August, 1936.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that area containing approximately 102 acres, more or less, known as Lot 33 in Block IV, Patetere North-east Survey District (portion of State Forest No. 3), about ten miles from Mamaku Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 105,850, or in board feet, 735,820, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £1,054.
Time for removal of timber: One year.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-fourth of the amount tendered, and £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in four equal two-monthly instalments, the first of which will be payable two months after the date of sale and the others at regular two-monthly intervals thereafter.

All the milling-timber on that area containing approximately 436 acres, known as Lot E in Blocks IX and X, Patetere North-east Survey District (State Forest No. 3), about seven miles from Mamaku Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity in cubic feet is 379,230, or in board feet 2,633,490, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £3,668.
Time for removal of timber: One year.