2662
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 124

application is declared successful. A remission of interest payable under the mortgage will be allowed for a period of six months on condition that the bridge over the Mapara Stream is rebuilt during this period.

This is a mixed dairying and grazing farm situated on the Mapara South Road, five miles from Kopaki Post-office and Railway-station, one mile from Aratoro School, and four miles from Kopaki Saleyards. Access is by metalled road. The soil is light loam on rhyolite formation; well watered by springs and streams. About 35 acres in good flats, 65 acres easy sidlings, the balance being undulating to hilly. Ragwort prevalent but has been fairly well controlled by sheep. The property is subdivided into nine paddocks.

(H.O. XI/3/81; D.O. O.R.P. 770.)

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 4th October, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on renewable lease 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 Friday, 10th November, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 14th November, 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.

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.—TOWN LAND.

Borough of Sumner.

Lot 58, D.P. 926, part R.S. 261, Borough of Sumner: Area, 1 rood. Capital value, £70; half-yearly rent, £1 15s.

This section, which is situated at Redcliffs, has a frontage to Slater Street, and offers a good dry building-site.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/21836; D.O. 22/4307.)

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 4th October, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property 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, Christchurch, up to 4 p.m. on Friday, 10th November, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 14th November, 1939, at 10.30 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 amount of weighting for improvements,

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waimate County.—Waimate Survey District.—Lansdown Settlement.

SECTION 6, and Lots 1, 2, and 3 of Section 7, Block X: Area, 415 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £2,031 10s.*; half-yearly rent, £50 15s. 9d.

• Capital value includes the sum of £142 11s. for improvements, comprising 441 chains of fencing.

Weighted with £689 1s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising dwelling, stables, granary, dairy, pigsty, smithy, water-supply, shelter belts, and 269 chains fencing.

This property is situated five miles and a half from Waimate Railway-station and Township, and four miles from Waituna School by good gravelled road. The land, which is of medium quality, slightly undulating and broken by dry gullies, is watered by the Hook River and water-race. Section 6, area 200 acres 2 roods, is in good farming condition; but the balance of the area is practically all in brown-top and in rough order, and will require breaking up.

For any further particulars required apply to the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 32/216; D.O. R.L. 566, 780, 795.)

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 3rd October, 1939.

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, 6th November, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, 8th November, 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, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS SETTLEMENT LAND.

Mosgiel Borough.—Melville Park Settlement.

(Exempt from payment of rent for one year.)

SECTION 2s: Area, 20 acres. Capital value, £600; half-yearly rent, £15.

Weighted with £195 for improvements, comprising dwelling, cow-byre, and fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £75, the balance, £120, to be secured by mortgage to the previous lessee, to be repayable over a period of ten years by annual instalments of £12 principal, plus half-yearly payments of interest at 4½ per cent. per annum on the unpaid balance, the first year to be free of interest. Upon the whole area being regrassed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, a grant of £45 cash will be made to the selector.

This section is situated in the Borough of Mosgiel, half a mile from Mosgiel Post-office and School and one and a half miles from Railway-station. The area comprises first-class flat land, the soil being a heavy loam. The section is suitable for growing grain and root crops, also for dairying and grazing. It is well watered.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. E. SHAW,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 21/160; D.O. R.L.S. 391 and VII/5.)