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Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections
are open for selection under the Land Act, 1924 ;
and applications will be received at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Wellington, up to 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Friday,
22nd October, 1937.

The land described in the First Schedule may, at the option
of the applicants, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease. The land described
in the Second Schedule may be selected on renewable lease
only.

Applicants should appear personally for examination
at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on
Wednesday, 27th October, 1937, 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.

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
and mortgage fees, and in the case of Sections 4 and 11,
Block XII, Whirinaki Survey District, deposit in reduction
of improvement loading.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

THIRD-CLASS LANDS.

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

SECTION 13, Block III : Area, 1,083 acres. Capital value,
£500. Deposit on deferred payments, £25 : Half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £15 8s. 9d. Renewable
lease : Half-yearly rent, £10.

Weighted with £1,000 for improvements, comprising
dwelling and outbuildings in poor condition, wool-shed, two
other sheds; yards, dip, 160 chains of fencing, and felling
and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or may be
secured by instalment mortgage to the State Advances
Corporation payable over a period of twenty-five years
and bearing interest at the rate of 4⅝ per cent. gross at
the present time. Quarterly instalment £16 19s. 6d. gross.
Instalments consist of both principal and interest. The
successful applicant will be required to pay £5 3s. being the
cost of preparing and registering the mortgage and, in
addition, a proportion of the insurance premium will have to
be paid.

This is a grazing property situated on the Kawhatahi
Valley Road and is ten miles distant by metalled road from
Owhango Railway-station, Post-office, School, and Saleyards
and seventeen miles from Kaitieke Dairy Factory. The
access is from Owhango. The section is subdivided into
seven paddocks and is watered by streams, the soil being of
light quality loam resting on a papa formation; there are
no noxious weeds, and the property is free from rabbits. The
altitude is from 1,000 ft. to 1,300 ft. At present there are
400 acres of standing bush, 400 acres in grass, while the
balance of the area is in fern and second growth; of the
total area approximately 200 acres consists of undulating
country, the balance being hilly and broken. The property
is mostly shady and subject to rapid deterioration.

(H.O. 31/606; D.O. O.R.P. 930.)

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

Section 1, Block I: Area, 1,296 acres. Capital value,
£485. Deposit on deferred payments, £25: Half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £14 19s. Renewable lease:
Half-yearly rent, £9 14s.

Weighted with £1,500 for improvements, comprising
dwelling and outbuildings (poor condition), wool-shed,
cowbyre, motor-shed, yards, dip, 400 chains subdivisional
fencing, 220 chains boundary-fencing, plantation, felling
and grassing.[ This sum is payable in cash or may be secured
by an instalment mortgage to the State Advances Corporation
payable over a period of thirty years, present rate of interest

4⅝ per cent. Quarterly instalments will be £23 4s. 9d. gross
which comprises both principal and interest. The successful
applicant will be required to pay £6 13s. being costs required
to prepare and register the mortgage and it will be necessary
to pay a proportion of the insurance premium.

This is a grazing property situated on the Makokomiko
Road ten miles from the Kaitieke Post-office, twelve miles
from the Kaitieke School, and twenty-four miles from
Raurimu Railway-station. The access is by metalled road
from Raurimu. About 200 acres is easy undulating country,
the balance being rough and hilly, while the area still in bush
is not worth felling as the property is subject to rapid
deterioration. The section is at an altitude of from 900 ft.
to 1,200 ft., is watered by streams, and the soil is of light
quality loam resting on a papa formation. Some 400 acres
have been felled and grassed and a further 400 acres has
been felled but has now reverted to fern and scrub, and the
balance of the area is still in its natural state. The section
is subdivided into five paddocks.

(H.O. 31/390; D.O. O.R.P. 961.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND AND THIRD-CLASS LANDS.

Waimarino County.—Whirinaki Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent and mortgage interest for
five years.*)

Sections 4 and 11, Block XII: Area, 940 acres 2 roods.
Capital value, £250; half-yearly rent, £5.

• After payment of the prescribed deposit, and subject
  to the incoming settler effecting permanent improvements to
  a value of not less than £42 annually during the first five
  years of the lease, the Lands Department will grant five
  years’ exemption from payment of rent and no interest will
  be charged under the mortgage securing the improvement
  loading for five years.

Weighted with £731 for improvements, comprising dwelling,
shed, 360 chains of fencing, felling and grassing. This sum
is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £21, the
balance may be secured by instalment mortgage for a term
not exceeding fifteen years and with interest at the rate of
5 per cent. per annum.

These sections are situated on the Murumuru Road,
twenty-one miles from the Raetihi Post-office, Dairy Factory,
and Saleyards, and six miles from the Ruatiti School, the
access being by metalled road from Raetihi. A grazing
proposition.

Section 4 (922 acres) has some easy undulating country but
is mostly steep and hilly with some gorges and the soil
consists of a light loam resting on a sandstone and papa
formation; the section is subdivided into three paddocks
and is well watered by good streams and springs.

Section 11 (18 acres 2 roods) is the homestead-site, and is
easy undulating country with some good flats and is subdivided into two paddocks; the soil is of poor quality resting
on a clay and sandstone formation.

Of the total area 8 acres are in good pasture, 10 acres in
medium pasture, 530 acres in deteriorated pasture, and
the balance of the area is in its natural state. To hold this
class of country the stock must be well managed and the
fences must be in satisfactory condition.

(H.O. XI/4/280; D.O. O.R.P. 1044 and 988.)

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 20th September, 1937.

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, 11th
October, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday,
13th October, 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.