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New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1919, Page 28

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION. VALUABLE FARM AND HOMESTEAD, GLADBROOK STATION HOMESTEAD, Of 137 Acres. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undermentioned LAND will be OFFERED FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION at this Office on WEDNESDAY, August 27, 1919, at 11 o’clock a.m. GLADBROOK SETTLEMENT. Section 31 S. Area, 137 acres 1 rood 18 perches. Upset Price, £4700. This is the Homestead of Gladbrook Estate, and is situated on the Strath-Taieri Plain, about two miles and a-quarter from Middlemarch. Middlemarch, an important station on the Otago Central Railway, is about 50 miles from Dunedin. The section is well watered, and comprises level land of very fine quality, the soil being a rich black loam on a clay formation. The climate is particularly healthy, and this land is. about 730 ft above sea-level. The section is securely fenced, is subdivided into four paddocks, and is bounded on two sides by plantations. The plantations are very valuable, and comprise mostly English deciduous trees about 40 years old. About 31 acres is taken up with orchard, garden, and shrubberies. The Dwelling-house is a large, commodious, substantially-built Residence of 10 rooms, besides kitchen, scullery, pantry, and bathroom. The building is of mica-schist blocks, faced with Oamaru stone, and is plastered inside. The roof is of corrugated iron, sarked and lined. The house is drained by an underground sewer of flanged tiles. Water is laid on, and there is a water service in the kitchen, scullery, and bathroom. The other buildings consist of lodgehouse of three rooms, stable, loosebox, harnessroom, groom’s room, coachhouse and garage; and the outbuildings are cbalhouse, meathouso, dairy, and storeroom. All buildings are substantial atone structures, in first-class order. The laid-on water comes from Doughboy Creek. The purchaser shall have the right to make use of the poles for carrying telephone wires from Middlemarch to the homestead. The purchaser may pay for the land in cash or by deferred payments extending over a period of 19 years. The terms are : 1. Cash: One-fifth of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance (with Crown grant fee) within 30 days thereafter. 2. Deferred payments; 5 per cent, of the purchasemoney and license fee (£1 Is) on the fall of the hammer; balance by equal annual instalments extending over 19 years, with interest payable half-yearly at the x-ate of 5 per cent, per annum on the unpaid purchase-money, but with the right to pay off at any time the whole or any part of the outstanding amount. In either case, if the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by due date, whether of purchase-money or interest, , the amount '(if any) already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land shall be null and void. Title will be subject to Section 60 of tile Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912. Full particulars may bo obtained at this -Office. ROBT. T. SADD, Commissioner of Crown Lands. District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, August 2, 1919. In this age of competition. When men toil with hand and brain, Spurred by soul-inspired ambition. Or by sordid lust of gain, We have need of health and vigor, Through life’s struggle to endure, That’s just why for colds in winter We take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. ROBT. T. SADD, Commissioner of Crown Lands.