SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Murchison County.—Burnett Survey District—Westland Mining District.
SECTION 1 of Square 175, Block XII : Area, 128 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £250; half-yearly rent, £5.
Weighted with £505 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising three-roomed whare, fowlhouse, hut, wool-shed, stable, trap-shed, cow-shed, 180 chains fencing, felling, grassing and stumping.
Situated near the junction of Warwick Creek with Maruia River, about thirty-three miles from Murchison by formed and metalled road. The section consists of terrace land rising from Warwick River, partly broken by gullies. Semi open land covered with scrub; no forest. Soil good in places but mostly shallow resting on gravels formation; well watered by streams. Elevation from 1,000 ft. to 1,120 ft. above sea-level.
(H.O. 9/3065 ; D.O. R.E.S. 135.)

Waimea County. — Kaiteriteri Survey District. — Karamea Mining District.
Sections 5 and 8, Block VIII : Area, 359 acres 1 rood 36 perches. Capital value, £90; half-yearly rent, £1 16s.
Situated on the old Sandy Bay Road about four miles and a half from Riwaka Post-office; access is by pack-track from the main road. Hilly country, covered with fern and manuka. The soil is poor, resting on clay and granite formation; watered by permanent streams. There are a few acres of limestone outcrop.
(H.O. 22/4240 ; D.O. L.P. 81.)

Waimea County. — Kaiteriteri Survey District. — Karamea Mining District.
Sections 6 and 7, Block VIII : Area, 282 acres 2 roods 10 perches. Capital value, £75; half-yearly rent, £1 10s.
Situated on the hills between the inland Sandy Bay Road and the Coast Road, about two miles from Riwaka Post-office; access is by an old road in poor condition. The land is covered with fern, manuka, and gorse. The soil is of very poor quality resting on clay formation; watered by stream.
(H.O. 26/894 ; D.O. R.L. 386.)
Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, 15th December, 1936.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered by public auction for sale for cash under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, at the District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Building, Christchurch, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 16th February, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.
Amuri County.—Culverden Township.—Culverden Settlement.

Culverden is situated in the Amuri County, sixty-nine miles from Christchurch, and is the present terminus of the railway. All of the sections are handy to the post-office and railways, and are mostly suitable for residential and building purposes.

Water is obtainable by means of wells and pumps. Sections 8, 9, 10, and 11 have a frontage to the main road, while the balance of the sections have a frontage to the new stock road (unformed).
NOTE.—All sections are subject to survey.

Terms of Sale.
One-fifth of the purchase-money and loading for improvements on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with £1 Crown grant fee, within thirty days thereafter.
Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

L. J. POFF,
Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 6/7/67; D.O. O.L. 2717.)

Lands in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 16th December, 1936.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 p.m. on Monday, 8th February, 1937.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, 10th February, 1937, 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.
Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.
The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and improvement loading.
The sections are situated within the Otago Mining District and are 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 rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Tuapeka County.—Benger Survey District.—Otago Mining District.
SECTION 11, Block XII : Area, 222 acres 1 rood 36 perches. Capital value, £110; half-yearly rent, £2 4s.
Situated on Miller's Flat — Beaumont Station Road, about four miles from Miller's Flat Post-office. Section rises at a steep incline from the Clutha River. All in natural state, mostly manuka, flax, and fern, parts suitable for grazing; watered by creeks.
(H.O. 9/2330 ; D.O. R.L.O. 219.)

Lake County.—Town of Glenorchy.—Otago Mining District.
Section 1, Block XVII : Area, 13 acres 2 roods 3 perches. Capital value, £25; half-yearly rent, 10s.
Weighted with £57 19s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising road-boundary and internal fencing, £42 19s., and approximately 10 acres top-dressed pasture, £15.
Sections 1 and 2, Block XIX : Area 84 acres 0 roods 37 perches. Capital value, £100; half-yearly rent, £2.
Weighted with £133 6s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising boundary and internal fencing, £116 16s., and approximately 11 acres top-dressed pasture, £16 10s.
The sections are situated about half a mile from the Glenorchy Post-office and about thirty-five miles from Queenstown by Lake Wakatipu Steamer service. Soil mostly schistylom on gravel formation. Areas not watered and would work in with other land.
(H.O. 9/3133; M.L. 3258.)

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.
N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.