Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on
Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 18th July, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is 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, 12th September, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday,
14th September, 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.

This property is situated within the Marlborough Mining
District and is 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.
Marlborough County.—Wakamarina Survey District.—
Marlborough Mining District.

SECTION 34, Block X: Area, 11 acres 0 roods 4 perches.
Capital value, £30 *; half-yearly rent, 12s.

• Capital value includes the sum of £15 for improvements,
  comprising 10 acres felling and grassing and 18 chains fencing.

This property is situated in the Pelorus Valley about one
quarter of a mile from the Canvastown Post-office and a
half mile from the School. The section comprises cleared
bush land in poor English and native pasture with fern,
blackberry, and barberry throughout, undulating to steep;
well watered by permanent stream.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 6/6/658; D.O. VIII/110.)

Land in Cheviot Estate, Canterbury Land District, for Selection
on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 18th July, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is open for selection on renewable lease under Part IX
of 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, 8th September, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on
Tuesday, 12th September, 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 the conclusion of the ballot
a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken-period
rent, lease fee, and deposit in reduction of weighting for
improvements.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Cheviot County.—Cheviot Survey District.—Cheviot Estate.

SECTION 89, Block VII : Area, 144 acres 0 roods 21 perches.
Capital value, £1,600; half-yearly rent, £40.

Weighted with £250 for improvements, comprising cottage
with sleeping-room attached, woolshed, dip and yards, dairy
on skids, two sheds, grassing, and 220 chains fencing. This
sum is payable in cash, or after payment of a deposit of £50,
the balance may be repaid over a period of fourteen years
by half-yearly instalments of £10 2s.

This property which adjoins the Mackenzie Township was
formerly the old Cheviot woolshed-block and comprises easy
to steep downs, with a small area of flats. The section offers
good grazing; approximately 30 acres is sown in three and
four year old grass, 20 acres young grass, and the balance
comprises tussock and native grasses. The land is watered
by woolshed stream on extreme east boundary, and by gully
on east boundary—not permanent.

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 48749; D.O. O.L. 3155.)

Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 17th 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, Dunedin, up to 4 o'clock
p.m. on Monday, 11th September, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday,
13th September, 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 fee, and deposit in reduction of weighting for
improvements.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Clutha County.—South Molyneux Survey District.

PART Section 5, and Sections 6–8, Block IV: Area, 206 acres
2 roods. Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred payments,
£10. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 16s.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £50 for improvements, comprising buildings.
This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit
of £5, the balance of £45 may be paid by twenty half-yearly
instalments of £2 18s. 3d. including interest at 5 per cent.

This property is situated approximately four miles from
Port Molyneux Post-office and School, four miles from
Romahapa Railway-station, and seven miles from Paretai
Dairy Factory; the access is by formed and part metalled
road. The soil is a light loam on clay bottom. The property
which is undulating and broken is subdivided into four
paddocks and is suitable for grazing.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

W. E. SHAW,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O 26/16623; D.O. R.L.R. 2.)