CROWN LANDS FOR SALE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1716, 27 March 1888, Page 2

CROWN LANDS FOR SALE.

On March 2Jst certain Crown Lands in Canterbury were opened for selection under the Land Act Amendment., 1817. The next meeting of the Land Board takes place on the sth April, when all the a 'tlicatione received for such land will be dealt with. The following particulars regarding (he allotments of land in South Canterbury will doubtless be interesting: Hinds—Nineteen sections, about 2000 acres, at £2, £1 10s and £1 per acre. Port of the land is light and inferior ; about a mile north of Wioelow • light md inferior with and without manuka scrub ; between Winalow and Hinds ; fair quality about three utiles from Wioslow.

Wester field—One section, 50 acres, £1 15n per acre, fair land, some very light, between the forks of the Ashburton river.

Hinds and Rangitata—Altogether, in seven distinct survey districts, there are fifty-four (tactions, with a total area of nearly 12,000 acres, at £llos and £2 per acre. The whole of this land is light and of inferior quality, with the exception of nine sections, which are of fair quality. Shepherd's Bash—Thirty sections, about 1500 acres, at £2, fair, I gh't stony land, near the river Hinds.

Geraldiae—Thirty-six seotions, about 2800 acres, comprising land of a stony and inferior qualities at from £1 to £2 per acre. Orari—Fifteen sections—eight in the township, light, stony land, about 12 aores^

£4 per acre. Seven—two and three-quarter miles south of railway station, £2 per acre. Also ten sections on reserve 349, compris\y% about 700 acres of land of inferior and fir qualities.

Otaio—Two sections of good arable land 8.. 3r 18p, at £9 and -£lO per acre. Opuhs—Twenty-three sections of light f' ny land, about 6000 aores, at £1 6s and £J per acre.

Waitaki—One section, 26 acres, light s! >ny land, at £2 per acre. The price affixed is the cash purchasing p ce per acre. Consequently tLe land r'.oa not fall to the highest tenderer, as it iu not opened under such conditions, and if* the event of more applicants than one s :king one section, the Board allots the laud by ballot. The land may be taken up on deferred payment or on perpetusl !e»se. £f the latter the selector will have to pay an annual rental of 5 per cent on the cash price; if the former, an addition of one-fourth to the cash price of the section will have to be made.—Press.