THE KANAKANAIA SETTLEMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 15 February 1908, Page 1

THE KANAKANAIA SETTLEMENT.

TO BE BALLOTED FOR ON

FEBRUARY 18

PARTICULARS -OF TIIE COUNTRY.

The following particulars of • tho land In bo opened at .Kauuknnnia on tho 18th inst. arc available:

Section I, area 071 acres, capital value £7BOO, half-yearly rental £175 10s.—Pastoral hilly land Altitude, from noil to 1 500 ft above sea level. Soi 1 <u good quality, on clay subsoil; a few slips in places; a portion near the ru'd is rather inferior, Mild about (D acres near the Mo luma te ■stream has become overgrown with fern and stunted manuka. All in English grasses. , Well watered b.v Severn 1 streams. (Situated on the inland Waiapu-roud, about 11 miles from To Ivaraka railway station.

Section 2, area 907 acres, capital value CS32O, half-yearly rental £lB7 -Is. —i.i storal hilly land. Altitude, from 150 ft to .1500 ft above sea level. Soil of good quality, on clav subsoil. All iu English grasses, but 05 acres near the Motumatr Stream has become much overgrown with fern and scrubby manuka. / Well watered by streams. Situated on the inland Waiipu-road, about 10 miles from To Ivaraka railway station.

Section 3, area 725 acres, capital value £t)2IO, half-yearly rental £l4O Bs.—d’astoral hilly find. Altitude, from 200 f- to 1400 ft above sea level. Soil of good quality; part old bush land, with about 10 acres of inferior bush still standing near the northeast corner. Tho land at the back of the section is rather broken, the remainder easy slopes. With the exception of 10 ocres all is in English grasses. Watered iby a stream and some springs. Situated on the Inland Waiapu-road, about nine miles and a half from To ivaraka. Section 4, area 745 acres, capital value £O3BO, half-yearly rental £143 11s. —Pastoral hilly land of good quality. Altitude, from 400 ft to 1200 ft above sea level. About 40 acres easy country, the remainder fairly steep. All in English grasses, though about 40 acres near the Motumato Stream is overgrown with fern and scrubby manuka. Watered b.v several streams. Situated on the Inland Waiapu-road, about nine miles and three-quarters from Te Ivaraka railway station.

Section 5, area 980 acres, capital value £9020, half-yearly rental £21(5 9s. —Eive acres flat near the Waihora River, the -remainder pastoral hilly land, altitude varying from 200 ft to 1400 ft above sea -levet.' Part of -this section is old bush land; about 350 acres low -hilly country, tho remainder more steep and broken. All in English grasses. Soil of 'mod quality ; about 10 acres at the back has a second growth of ..scrub where tile bush has been felled but not burnt. Watered by streams. . Situated on the Inland Waiapu-road, about eight miles and a quarter from To Koraka railway station.

Section 6, area 244 acres, capital value- £2570, half-yearly rental £57 16s 6d [£3 2s Id: Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £BO, repayable in 21 years by half-yearly instalments of £3 2s Id. Total halfyearly payment, £6O ISs 10d]. Eivo acres of flat near the woolshcd, tho remainder pastoral liilly land at an altitude varying from 200 f- to 1200 ft above sea level. Nearly' all old bush land in English grasses. Soil of good quality. Well watered by the Waihora River. Situated on the Inland Waiapu-road, about- eight miles and a quarter from Te Ivaraka railway station. Section 7, area 655 acres, capital value £6OIO, half-yearly rental £135 4s 6d [£s 9s 3d : Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £l4O, repayable in 21 years by halfyearly instilments of £5 9s 3d. Total half-yearly payment, £l4O 13s 9d]. Mixed agricultural and pastoral land. Altitude, from 200 ft to 1200 ft above sea level. 15 acres -good Hat agricultural land in English grass, the remainder pastoral hilly country, of which 40 acres is scrub and bush clad, 40 acres overgrown with fern, and 560 acres in good grass. The greater iiortion of this section was once bush. Well watered by the Waihora River. Situated on the Inland Waiapu-road, about eight miles and a quarter "from Te- Ivaraka railway station.

General Note.—There is a wellgraded formed road from Te lviraka to the settlement, but in the winter it becomes too soft and muddy for much wheel traffic. ' Improvements Included in Capital Value. —Section 1, fencing, £74 14s (xl; section 2, fencing, £9B 145.; section 3, .fencing, £49 Is 9d; section 4, fencing, £42 3s; section o, fencing, £7O 13s; section 0, fencing, £33 7s 6d; section 7, fencing and cattle yard, £62 Us Od. Improvements not included in Capital Value. —Section 0,50 ft by 24ft wool shod, ami a 10ft by 12ft slab cookhouse, £BO ; section 7, five-room-ed cottage and outbuildings, £llO. CONDITIONS OF LEASE. 1. Term of lease: 33 years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of 33 years. 2. Rental: ii per cent, per annum on the capital value, pnvablc -in advance on Ist January and Ist Jill- ill’ each year, and subject to a rebate for prompt payment at discretion of Commissioner of Crown Lands and Receiver of Land Revenue. 3. Applicants to be 21 years of age and upwards. 4. Applicants to furnish with statutory ifeolaTation, £.l Is (lease fee), and a half-year’s rent; and pay also the rent lor tho broken period between date, of lease and Ist January or Ist July following. 5. Applications made on the same dav are deemed to be simultaneous. 6. Order of selection is decided by ballot, preference being given to landless' aiiplicants. Preference over cerl iii' 'Meas may be given to landless applicants with families, and to landless aiiplicants unsuccessful at former ballots. 7. No person may hold more than one allotment.

8. Successful applicants to execute lease within 30 days after being notified that it is ready for signature. 9. A 'renewable lease is registered uiuier “The Laud Transfer Act, 1885.” . , ~ , 10. Lessee to reside continuously on the land, and pay all rates, taxes, and assessments. 11. Transfer not allowed until completion of live yews continuous lesidence, except under extraoiduiaiv circumstances, and then only witli permission. ' . , 12. Allotment to be unproved as provided by Land for Settlements Regulations. . , , , . 13. Lessee lias no right to luniejair without' license: but lie may use on’the land any minerals lor an> agricultural, pastora. l , household, tool-ms'king, or building purpose.

11. Lessee may pay up Lu 90 per cent, of capital value of -allotment in sums of not less than £10; rent to be reduced proportionately. All moneys so -paid shall be repayable to the owner of the lease when it is renewed or determined. No conditions, except residence and payment of rent, are enforced avium amount no paid is not less than 33 per cent, of capital value. Any money exceeding 33 per cent, of capital value is repayable to lesr.eo on application. 15. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Applications must be mule on proper forms, to be obtained at llio District Lauds Office, Napier, the local Lands Office, Gisborne, and the principal post-ollices in the locality of the land to be opened. In order that the Land Board may be in a position to judge the -general ability of applicants to properly, work ami cultivate the land and lull'd the conditions of tho lease, each applicant is required to produce for* inspection when examined by the' Board documentary evidence of his financial position, such as bank passbooks, certiiic lies or letters of credit, from ‘managers of banks, financial Institutions, or ifiereanlile linns, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give linaneial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent- they are prepared to do so, and supply guarantees of their own liuanciai position. >

Copies of the regulations issued under the Land for Settlements Act may be hud on application to any Land Office throughout the Dominion, or they will be forwarded by post to any address. The successful applicants can take possession on the day of ballot. Caution.—The attention of applicants is drawn to sec ions .:! and 99 of “The Land Act, 1892.” which provide that -any person wilfully making a false declaration or obtaining lands not exclusively for bis own use or benefit, or anyone aiding or abetting iu such a breach of the Land Act, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment, in addition :o the forlcituie of -any land obtained b.v such false declaration.