CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1937.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Insurance Building, Wellington, on Wednesday, 21st April, 1937, at 2.30 o'clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and the Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN (SETTLEMENT) LAND. Lower Hutt Borough.—Belmont Survey District.—Hutt Valley Settlement.
SECTIONS 9, 10, 11, and 12, Block XXIX : Area, 29.08 perches. Upset price, £400.
Weighted with £35 for improvements, consisting of a workshop with lean-to and fencing. This sum is payable in cash on the fall of the hammer.
These sections are situated in an area defined by the local authority for the erection of shops under the powers conferred by the Town-planning Act. They are situated adjacent to Waterloo Station, on the western side of the railway, in the centre of what will ultimately be a large residential area. Drainage, sewerage, gas, and electric light are available.
Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.
H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 22/3417, Sales.)
Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 17th March, 1937.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, 6th April, 1937.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, 8th April, 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 deposit in reduction of improvement loading.
NOTE.—These lands 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.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND. Sounds County.—Gore Survey District.—Marlborough Mining District.
SECTIONS 40 and 41, Block XI: Area, 890 acres 0 roods 37 perches. Capital value, £315 ; half-yearly rent, £6 6s. Weighted with £465 for improvements, consisting of two cottages, store-shed, shearing-shed, yards, dip, boundary and internal fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £15 and the balance of £450 on mortgage to the Lands and Survey Department—term, 36½ years, with interest at 5 per cent. to a discharged soldier and 34½ years with interest at 5½ per cent. to others.
The property is situated in Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, and is of poor quality. Approximately 600 acres felled and grassed; this has, however, reverted to fern and second-growth—balance in poor bush. The configuration is hilly to steep, rocky hill-tops.
Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.
P. R. WILKINSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/14110 ; D.O. XVIII/373 and III/124.)
Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 17th March, 1937.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale for cash or on deferred payments by public auction, at the Lands Office, Courthouse Building, Ashburton, at 2 o'clock p.m. on Thursday, 29th April, 1937, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.
SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS SETTLEMENT LAND. Ashburton County.—Coldstream Survey District.—Coldstream Settlement.
SECTION 1A, Block I : Area, 10 acres. Upset price, £375. Includes the value of the improvements on the property comprising dwelling, two sheds, pigsty, fowlhouse, cow-byre, 20 chains subdivisional fencing, and 10 chains road-boundary fencing.
The above property, which is eminently suitable as a worker's home, comprises part of the well-known Coldstream Settlement, and is situated on Dowdings Road, ten miles from Hinds Post-office and Railway-station and five miles from Lowcliffe School (school bus); access is provided by shingle road from Hinds. The property is watered by water-race, and is subdivided into two paddocks, all flat and ploughable. The soil is light, resting mainly on shingle formation.
Terms of sale and full particulars may be obtained at this office.
L. J. POFF,
Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/8711 ; D.O. S.T.L./S. 63.)
MAORI LAND NOTICE.
Maori Land for Sale by Public Tender.
Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, 9th March, 1937.
NOTICE is hereby given in terms of the Native Land Act, 1931, and the regulations thereunder, that written tenders are invited and will be received at the office of the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 12th April, 1937, for the purchase of the land named in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
KAWHIA COUNTY.—THIRD-CLASS LAND. Block VII, Kawhia South Survey District.
PART Lot 5A, being part Taumatatotara 1c 2 and part Hauturu West G 2 Section 2B 2 : Area, 579 acres 2 roods 24 perches. Upset price, £290.
Lot 7, being part Taumatatotara 1c 2 and part Hauturu West G 2 Section 2B 2 : Area, 510 acres 1 rood 8 perches. Upset price, £255.
Lot 11, being part Taumatatotara 1c 2 and part Hauturu West G 2 Section 2B 2 : Area, 459 acres. Upset price, £230.
Heavy bush country undulating to broken. Soil of a loamy nature. Access is by surveyed road. Nearest metal road is two miles. About thirty-five miles from Te Kuiti by part metalled and part clay road.
ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS.

1. Every tenderer to deposit along with his tender a sum equal to 5 per cent. of the price tendered, and to pay a further 5 per cent. on being declared the purchaser. The balance of the purchase-money to be paid in twenty equal half-yearly instalments.
2. The purchaser to pay interest on unpaid purchase-money at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Interest to be payable on the 1st July and 1st January of each year, and to date from the signing of the contract of sale.
3. Tenders for purchase must be accompanied by a fee of £4 4s. to meet costs and expenses incidental thereon, together with the amount with which the section is loaded for improvements (if any), and also an amount sufficient to cover stamp duty (11s. for every £50 or portion thereof) and 10s. for registration fee.
4. The purchaser shall, at the end of five years, upon payment of balance of purchase-money, be entitled to a transfer of the fee-simple of the land.
5. Residence and improvements to conform with sections 312 and 319 of the Native Land Act, 1931.