Nov. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3007

Lands in Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands, Wellington, 16th November, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Land in Spotswood Settlement, Taranaki Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 5th November, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 12th day of December, 1906, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

If more than one application is received for the section on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT. — TARANAKI COUNTY. — PARITUTU SURVEY DISTRICT. — SPOTSWOOD SETTLEMENT.

Dairy Farm.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £40, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £1 11s. 2d. Total half-yearly payment, £20 10s. 10d.

Weighted with £95, the amount of an existing mortgage to the Superintendent, Government Advances to Settlers Office.

NOTE.—The successful applicant will be required to take a temporary license, under section 116 of “The Land Act, 1892,” of Section 58, Block IV, Paritutu Survey District, containing 19 acres 2 roods, at an annual rental of £1 9s. 4d.

Section 60 is situated with a frontage to the Ngamotu Road, and is accessible from New Plymouth by the Main South, Breakwater, and Ngamotu Roads, 2 miles 76 chains; and from the Breakwater, 1 mile 9 chains. The section consists chiefly of hilly and somewhat broken land, nearly all in fair old pasture, with a strip of bare sand and clay along the northern boundary. The portion of section eastward of intersecting fence, about 4 acres in extent, is nearly flat or easy undulating land. The general quality of the soil is good, being a deep sandy loam on a sandy clay subsoil; well watered by the Herekawe and branch creek.

The improvements which are included in the price of the land consist of 12 chains of fencing, valued at £3; well, £10. The improvements not included in the price of the land consist of an old five-roomed cottage, valued at £40, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £1 11s. 2d.; also fencing, £10; poultry buildings and yards, £10.

Section 58 is situated on the Paritutu Road. It is accessible from New Plymouth, which is distant by the Main South, Ngamotu, and Paritutu Roads, 2 miles 78 chains; and from the Breakwater by the Ngamotu and Breakwater Roads, 1 mile 18 chains. The section is hilly and broken and falling to the coast-line, and the general quality of the soil is inferior, being chiefly drifting sand or bare clay. The eastern end is growing lupins.

The improvements, which are included in the price of the land, consist of 16 chains of boundary and subdivisional fences, valued at £10.

FRANCIS SIMPSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Auckland Land District open for Lease on Application.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 5th November, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at the Lands Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, the 19th day of December, 1906, under the provisions of Part V of “The Land Act, 1892.”

If more than one application is received for the run on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WHANGAROA COUNTY. — KAE0* AND KERIKERI† SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Second-class Pastoral Country.

Altitude, from 200 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. Undulating fern-land; partly old timber workings, with about 360 acres of scattered mixed forest, comprising tarairc, puriri, kohckohc, and rata, with light undergrowth of nikau and bush ferns; soil inferior, on sandstone formation; not well watered. Distant eight miles from Kaeo Post-office.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.