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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 on account of weighting for
improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.--FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Palmerston North City.--Kairanga Survey District.
Lots 169, 170, and 171, D.P. 791, part Hokowhitu Native
Reserve Nos. 3 and 4, Block XI: Area, 10 acres l rood 37
perches. Capital value, £1,050. Deposit on deferred payments, £50: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments,
£32 10s. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £21.
Weighted with £877 for improvements, comprising dwelling,
garage 15 ft. by 12 ft., fowlhouse 20 ft. by 20 ft., cow-byrne
25 ft. by 14 ft., wood-shed, piggeries, troughs, 20 chains road
fencing, 10 chains boundary-fencing, 30 chains internal
fencing, garden, plantation and shelter-belts, clearing and
stumping, and cultivation.

This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit
of £77, the balance may be paid by half-yearly instalments
of principal and interest amounting to £24 over a period
of twenty-one years with payments based on a thirty-six
and a half year term. At the end of twenty-one years any
balance then outstanding will be payable upon demand.
Rate of interest, 5 per cent.

This land is situated at the corner of Pahiapua and Ruahine
Streets, Palmerston North, two miles from the Palmerston
North Post-office, three-quarters of a mile from the Hoko-
whitu School, five miles and a half from Kairanga Dairy
Factory, and twelve miles from Feilding Saleyards, access
being by city streets. It is all flat land, the soil being of a
heavy loam resting on clay and shingle formation. At the
present time 8½ acres are in good permanent pasture, 1½ acres
under cultivation, and ½ acre in lawn and garden. The
dwelling has been constructed of poor-quality materials, but
the interior is in fair order. Sewerage and town water-
supply are laid on to the property.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/9439; D.O. 22/4364.)

Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 22nd February, 1939.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property
is open for selection on optional tenures under the
Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o'clock
p.m., on Thursday, 6th April, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday,
llth April, 1939, 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, and lease fee.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.--SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Rangiora County.--Mairaki Survey District.
RESERVE 1839, Block II: Area, 77 acres 3 roods 10 perches.
Capital value, £300*. Deposit on deferred payments, £15.

Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £9 5s. 3d.
Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £6.

• Capital value includes the sum of £60 for improvements
  on the property, which remain the property of the Crown,
  comprising boundary and party boundary fencing and old
  oak plantation.

This area, which is suitable for grazing only, comprises
broken hill country, all in the native, carrying good tussock
and English grasses. The property is distant about three
miles and a half from Cust Railway-station. Access is
provided by the Main Summerhill Road, then by unformed
gorse-covered road for approximately 30 chains. The
property is not self-supporting and is only suitable to be
worked in with adjoining properties.

Special Condition.-The selector will be required to give
special attention to the grubbing and clearing of the gorse
and broom during the first year of the lease and to have the
whole of the gorse and broom cleared by the end of the
third year.

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 15/147 ; D.O. O.L. 3038.)

Pastoral Run in the Canterbury Land District for License by
Public Auction.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral
run will be offered for license under the Land Act,
1924, by public auction at the District Lands and Survey
Office, Christchurch, at 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 24th
March, 1939.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.--PASTORAL RUN.
Ashburton County.-Whitcombe, Glenrock, Heron, and Somers
Survey Districts.
(National Endowment.)
RUN 118, "Glenfaloch": Area 26,700 acres. Upset annual
rental, £450.
Weighted with £2,116 10s. for improvements, comprising
dwelling (two bedrooms, kitchen, pantry, washhouse, range
and open fires, hot and cold water), stable and chaff-house,
storeroom, cookhouse, and shearer's quarters, fowl-houses,
dip and yards, wool-shed, sheepyards, cow-byrne, two huts,
shelter-belts and plantations, boundary and subdivisional
fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a
deposit of £516 10s., the balance may be secured by first
mortgage to the N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Association, Ltd., for a
term of five years with principal to be reduced by £100
yearly. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent.

The above run is situated about forty-two miles from
Methven off the Rakaia Gorge Road. Access is by reasonably
good back-country road, with the exception of the last few
miles which is by track. The greater part of the run is
mountainous and broken by deep gorges; the lower slopes
are well grassed, offering good pastoral country. Approximately 400 acres is good-quality arable land. Altitude from
2,000 ft. to 6,500 ft. The homestead block of approximately
1,000 acres is subdivided into sixteen paddocks. Summer
country is in one block ; winter country in three blocks.

Abstract of Conditions.

1. Purchaser shall be over twenty-one years of age.
2. Term of license: Twenty-one years from lst March, 1940,
   with contingent right of renewal over the whole run, or
   if it is subdivided over one subdivision.
3. No person may hold more than one run, except with the
   approval of the Minister of Lands given on the recommendation of the Land Board. If a husband holds a run, his wife
   is deemed to be a runholder and vice versa.
4. One half-year's rent, license fee (£1 1s.) deposit for
   improvements, and statutory declaration shall be deposited by
   the purchaser on the fall of the hammer. Rent commences
   from date of license; broken-period rent from date of sale
   to 3lst August, 1939, will be payable on 1st September, 1939.
5. Rent is payable half-yearly in advance on 1st March
   and 1st September in each year. If not paid within thirty
   days of due date a penalty of 10 per cent. is added.
6. Licensee shall prevent the destruction or burning of
   timber and the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweet-
   briar, or other noxious weeds or plants, and shall keep down
   rabbits.