MAY 9.]

Whangamomona County.—Whangamomona Township.
Section 28: Area, 1 rood. Capital value, £10; half-yearly rent, 5s.
Sections 37, 38, and 39: Area, 3 roods. Capital value, £30; half-yearly rent, 15s.
These sections are situated in the Whangamomona Township, forty miles from Stratford. The areas slope to the road and have been felled and grassed. Sections are suitable for grazing a house cow.
(H.O. 9/54; D.O. XIV/3.)

VILLAGE LAND.
Inglewood County.—Egmont Village.
Sections 152 and 155: Area, 2 roods. Capital value, £10; half-yearly rent, 5s.
These sections are situated in Egmont Village, about eight miles and a half from New Plymouth. They comprise level land, broken by a creek, with easy sloping banks. Suitable for grazing.
(H.O. 9/3118; D.O. X/1/3.)

SUBURBAN LAND.
Whangamomona County.—Whangamomona Suburban.
Subsection 2 of Section 10: Area, 3 acres 3 roods 3·7 perches. Capital value, £10; half-yearly rent, 5s.
This property which is situated at Whangamomona, on the Prospect Road, forty miles from Stratford, fronts the main Stratford-Okahukura Railway. One acre is in bush, the balance has reverted to scrub, &c. With clearing up, the land would be suitable for grazing.
(H.O. 9/54; D.O. XIV/3.)
Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.
A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 7th May, 1940.
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, Nelson, up to 11 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, 11th June, 1940.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 13th June, 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, deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements, and proportionate part of insurance on the buildings.
NOTE.—This section 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.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Murchison County.—Matiri Survey District.—Westland Mining District.
SECTION 19 (formerly part Section 8) and Section 11, Block VII: Area, 467 acres. Capital value, £155; half-yearly rent, £3 2s.
Weighted with £500 for improvements, comprising three-roomed dwelling (with three small cubicles), approximately 200 chains fencing, 460 acres felled and grassed, approximately 7 acres stumping and clearing. This sum is payable
in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £50, the balance may be left on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of twenty years with interest at 4½ per cent. reducible to 4½ per cent. Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest, £17 7s. 3d. Legal costs, £1 19s., in connection with the mortgage, plus proportionate part of insurance premium, will be payable by the successful applicant.
Situated on the west bank of the Owen River one mile from the highway by fair metalled road, one mile from Owen River Post-office and School, fifteen miles from Glenhope Railway-station, and sixteen miles from Murchison Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Some 20 acres comprise flat, ploughable land with fair soil on free gravel subsoil, 20 acres consist of damp swamp in rushes, the balance being undulating with light clay soil on hills. Approximately the whole area has been felled and grassed, but has largely reverted to fern. The property is well watered. There is some blackberry. Dwelling and fencing require repairing. The land is not an economic unit in itself, but should be useful to an adjacent holder.
Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.
P. R. WILKINSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 31/464; D.O. X/55, R.L. 192 and L.P. 512.)
Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 7th May, 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, Christchurch, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 10th June, 1940.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 11th June, 1940, 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 amount of weighting for improvements.
SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Ashburton County.—Rangitata Survey District.
PART Reserve 1650, Blocks VII and VIII: Area, 144 acres 3 roods 33·1 perches. Capital value, £1,050. Deposit on deferred payments, £40. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £32 16s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £21.
Capital value of £1,050 includes the sum of £20 for improvements belonging to the Crown, comprising grassing.
Weighted with £122 9s. (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising hut and approximately 197 chains road boundary and party boundary fencing.
Approximately 48½ chains fencing on the railway boundary is the property of the Railways Department.
This property, which comprises two blocks separated by the Main South Railway, is situated on the Main South, Ealing, and Coldstream Roads, about a quarter of a mile from the Ealing Railway-station. Access is by paved road. The land is all flat, watered by water-races, and comprises light to medium loam resting on shingle formation. The property is not self-supporting and is only suitable to work in with other lands in the district, but the section offers good grazing.
Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.
N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 22/3401; D.O. O.L. 3129.)