1966

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on
Thursday, 10th August, 1939, 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,
and lease fee.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Awatere County.—Clifford Bay Survey District.

PART Section 14, Block X : Area, 24 acres 0 roods 32 perches.
Capital value, £260.* Deposit on deferred payments, £10 :
Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £8 2s. 6d.
Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £5 4s.

• Capital value includes the sum of £20 for improvements,
  comprising 32 chains fencing.

This property is situated on the Main South Road, about
one mile distant from the Seddon School, Post-office, and
Railway-station. The whole area is in Native grass. The
land is level and of fair quality being light loam, stony in
patches resting on shingle formation; water not at present
available but a plentiful supply could probably be obtained
by boring. The section is nicely situated and very suitable
for a working-man to build a home and run four to five cows.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 36/276 ; D.O. XX/19.)

Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 4th July, 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 Friday, 4th August, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday,
8th August, 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 the 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 LAND.
Paparua County.—Rolleston Survey District.

R.S. 12300, 12299, 21550, 15932, 18479, 26008, 32629,
Block XV : Area, 187 acres 0 roods 9 perches. Capital
value, £1,775.* Deposit on deferred payments, £55 : Half-
yearly instalment on deferred payments, £55 18s. Renewable
lease : Half-yearly rent, £35 10s.

• Capital value includes the sum of £160 for improvements
  belonging to the Crown, comprising approximately 257 chains
  of road boundary, party boundary, and subdivisional fencing,
  clearing, and plantations.

WEIGHTED with £55 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising wool-shed and yards and grassing.

This property has a frontage to Newtons Road and is
distant about two miles from Sandy Knolls Railway-station,
two miles and a half from West Melton School, and sixteen
miles from Addington Saleyards. The land is light to medium
plains land, all flat and ploughable, and is suitable for sheep-
grazing and growing green feed, rape, and turnips. It is
watered by county races, and is subdivided into seven pad-
docks by gorse and wire fences.

The property is not self-supporting and is only suitable
to be worked in with the adjoining properties.

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/12907 ; D.O. R.L./R. 36.)

Education Reserve in Southland Land District for Lease by
Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 4th July, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserve will be offered for lease by public auction
at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, on
Thursday, 24th August, 1939. at 11 o'clock a.m. under the
provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the
Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—LUMSDEN TOWN BOARD.
LOT 1, Block II, Township of South Lumsden (L.T. Plan 127),
part Section 241, Hokonui Survey District : Area 5 acres
0 roods 14 perches. Upset annual rent, £2.

Weighted with £5 15s. (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising fencing.

Situated three-quarters of a mile from Lumsden Railway-
station, this property comprises level land approximately
one-third of which has recently been cultivated and sown in
grass. Young gorse is beginning to spread on the remaining
portion.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Possession will be given on the day of sale.
2. Six months' rent at the rate offered and rent for the
   broken period, lease and registration fees (£2 2s.), must be
   deposited on the fall of the hammer.
3. Term of lease—twenty-one years, with perpetual right
   of renewal for further similar terms at rents on fresh valuations under the provisions of the Public Bodies' Leases
   Act, 1908.
4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.
5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all buildings, drains, and fences; to keep clear all creeks, drains,
   ditches, and watercourses; to trim all live hedges, and yield
   up all improvements in good repair and condition at the
   expiration of the lease.
6. Lessee not to carry on any noxious, noisome, or offensive
   trade upon the land.
7. Lessee not to transfer, mortgage, sublet, or subdivide
   without consent of the Land Board.
8. Lessee not to use or remove any gravel without consent
   of the Land Board.
9. No liability is accepted on the part of the Crown or
   of the Land Board to pay to the lessee any compensation
   for improvements, but if the lease is not renewed upon
   expiration, or if it is sooner determined, the new lease offered
   for disposal by public competition will be subject to payment
   by the incoming tenant of an amount equal to the value of
   buildings and improvements effected by the original lessee,
   and the amount so paid by the incoming tenant shall be paid
   to the original lessee without any deduction except for rent
   or other payments in arrear.
10. Lease liable to termination if conditions are violated.
11. Lessee to keep buildings insured.
12. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum to be
    paid on rent in arrear.

Form of lease may be perused and any further particulars
required may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

THOS. CAGNEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 20/1044 ; D.O. E.R. 2692.)