2916
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 112

Weighted with £727 for improvements, comprising dwelling,
washhouse, cow-byre, garage, yards, fencing, felling, and stumping.
This sum is payable in cash, or by a deposit of £27, and the balance
on mortgage for a term of 36½ years; interest, 5 per cent.; half-
yearly instalments principal and interest, £21.

The property is situated on the Oio Valley Road, three miles and a
half from Owhango Post-office and School, and two miles and a half
from Owhango Railway-station. It is undulating to hilly country
cut up by swampy creeks; suitable for grazing.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

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

(H.O. 34/155; D.O. R.L. 411.)

Education Reserves in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education
reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the
District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Building, Wellington,
at 2 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, 28th January, 1943, under the
provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public
Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.

Featherston Borough.—Wairarapa Survey District.

Suburban Section 120, Township of Featherston: Area, 5 acres.
Upset annual rent, £5.

Weighted with £30 (payable in cash) for improvements, com-
prising felling, grassing, stumping, fencing, and water-trough.

This section is situated on the corner of Watt and Harrison
Streets in Featherston about a quarter of a mile from the railway-
station. It is practically flat land, all cleared, grassed, and ring-
fenced.

(H.O. 20/563; D.O. R. 516.)

Rangitikei County.—Township of Taihape.

Suburban Sections 32 and 33: Area, 10 acres 0 roods 3 perches.
Upset annual rent, £12 10s.

Weighted with £67 (payable in cash) for improvements, com-
prising 45 chains fencing.

These sections are situated half a mile from Taihape Post-office
and three-quarters of a mile from the Railway-station. Hilly to
steep country with a stream along the whole length of frontage.
The land is suitable for grazing only.

(H.O. 20/1107; D.O. W. 495.)

Abstract of Conditions of Lease.

1. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, broken-period rent,
   weighting for improvements, and £2 2s. (lease fee), must be deposited
   on the fall of the hammer.

2. Term of lease: Twenty-one years, with perpetual right of
   renewal at rentals based on fresh valuations.

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

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

Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 14th December, 1942.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sec-
tions are 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 January, 1943.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday,
14th January, 1943, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any appli-
cant 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
and farming experience.

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 the agreed-on amount of
improvement loading.

NOTE.—These lands 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 lessee, whose
rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Marlborough County.—Wakamarina Survey District.

SECTIONS 9, 10, Lot 2 of 11, 34, 41, and 42; Block XIV:
Area, 514 acres 2 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £425;
half-yearly rent, £8 10s.

Weighted with £1,086 for improvements, comprising
dwelling of five rooms and large barn (both requiring rep-
airs), good cow-shed, old wool-shed, dip and yards, fencing
(fourteen paddocks) in fair condition, felling and grassing.
This sum is payable in cash, or on such terms as may be
previously arranged by the applicant with the State Advances
Corporation. Applicants will require to produce evidence to
the Land Board of the terms arranged.

The property is situated three miles up the Wakamarina
Valley and comprises steep, cleared bush country growing
tussock and native grasses. Approximately 100 acres of
lower faces are reverting to fern and parts of the river-side
flats are covered in blackberry. The hills exclude the sun
for the greater part of the day in the winter, and the
winters here are long and fairly severe. Approximately 27
acres of ploughable land near the homestead is divided into
small paddocks and has been stumped and cultivated, and
carries fair pasture of English grasses.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. XI/6/134; D.O. R.L. 154.)

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 14th December, 1942.

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, Christchurch, up to 4 p.m. on Monday, 11th
January, 1943.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tues-
day, 12th January, 1943, 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 documentary
evidence of their financial position and farming experience.

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 improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLE-
MENT LAND.

Waimairi County.—Christchurch Survey District.—Avonhead Settlement.

SECTION 3B, Block X: Area, 13 acres 3 roods 3 perches,
Capital value, £570; half-yearly rent, £14 5s.

Weighted with £20 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising shelter-trees and fencing.

Section 9B, Block X: Area, 8 acres 3 roods 3 perches.
Capital value, £390; half-yearly rent, £9 15s.

Weighted with £6 (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising fencing.

Section 3B has frontage to Withella Road, and is about
one mile and a half from Riccarton tram and two miles
from Riccarton School and Post-office.

Section 9B has frontage to Avonhead Road, and is about
one mile from Riccarton tram and one mile and a half from
Riccarton School and Post-office.

Both sections are about six miles from Christchurch, and
comprise good flat land suitable for grazing and for grain
and root cropping; at present a fair portion is in grass.
With the erection of dwellings, each lot would make a suit-
able worker’s home handy to the city.

For any further particulars required apply to the under-
signed.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/5380; D.O. R.L. 885 and 922.)