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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in the Canterbury Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 13th February, 1940.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Canterbury Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

(L. and S. 22/950/8.)

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister of Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1940.

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, Wellington, up to 12 o’clock noon on Tuesday, 26th March, 1940.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 27th March, 1940, 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 fee, and amount of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitotara County.—Tawakira Survey District.

SECTION 3, Block XIV: Area, 1,270 acres. Capital value, £320. Deposit on deferred payments, £20. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £9 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6 8s.

Weighted with £158 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising cottage, small wool-shed, small shed, 70 chains fencing, 500 acres felled, burned, and sown, and sheep-dip (in disrepair).

This property is situated on the Ahu-Ahu Valley Road thirty-four miles from Kai Iwi Post-office and Railway-station; nineteen miles from Paparangi School. Access being by twenty-seven miles of metalled road, four miles of formed road, and three miles of track from Raetihi. The County has abandoned this portion of the road which is developing into a very inferior track for the last four miles. Access from the road is bad being by a narrow stock suspension-bridge.

The section is subdivided into four paddocks and is suitable for grazing only. Some 5 acres in good pasture; 495 acres deteriorated with fern and scrub, and 770 acres in natural state. Soil is of poor quality resting on sandstone, clay, and papa formation; well watered, hilly to steep with very bad gorges.

NOTE.—The attention of intending applicants is specially drawn to the poor access to this property. The Crown does not undertake to improve the existing access in any way.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

(H.O. 31/442; D.O. O.R.P. 889.)

Lands in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 13th February, 1940.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned properties are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 11 o’clock a.m., on Tuesday, 12th March, 1940.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 14th March, 1940, 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 deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements.

NOTE.—These properties are 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 lessees, whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LANDS.

Takaka County.—Waitapu Survey District.—Karamea Mining District.

SECTION 7 (formerly part Section 2), Block IV: Area, 104 acres. Capital value, £40; half-yearly rent, 16s.

Weighted with £120 for improvements, comprising 30 chains boundary fencing (half-share), and 104 acres felled, burned, and grassed. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit £30, the balance may be left on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of ten years with interest at 4½ per cent. reducible to 4¼ per cent. for prompt payment. Legal costs, viz., £2 13s., in connection with the mortgage will be payable by the successful applicant.

Situated two miles from Puramahoi Post-office, three miles from Puramahoi School, seven miles and a half from Golden Bay Dairy Factory, and nine miles from Takaka Saleyards. Access is by a good side road from the main Takaka-Collingwood Road. The property is hilly with about 25 acres broken river flats and foothills. Soil is from pakihi to clay nature with a small limestone outcrop; watered by permanent streams. Some 25 acres are in worn-out pasture, the balance comprising bush land which has been felled and grassed. The area, which has reverted to fern, ragwort, and foxglove, is suitable to an adjacent holder as a run-off for dairy stock.

(H.O. 22/2828; D.O. R.L. 981.)