Nov. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3537

Section 2, Block XIV: Area, 521 acres. Capital value, £850. Instalment on deferred payment (without interest), £42 10s. Half-yearly rent on lease, £17.

Section 11, Block XIV: Area, 576 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £890. Instalment on deferred payment (without interest), £44 10s. Half-yearly rent on lease, £17 16s.

Soil of good quality, being light, semi-volcanic, and resting on sandstone; well watered by small streams. Each section contains about 200 acres of undulating fern country, the balance being undulating heavy-bush land. Access is from Kaikohe Railway-station, seventeen miles distant from Section 2 and fifteen miles from Section 11—fourteen miles being formed wagon-road, balance unformed.

Sale posters and full particulars may be obtained from this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Hawke’s Bay Land District open for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 8th November, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the small grazing-run described in the Schedule hereto is open for lease under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, and the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 10th January, 1917.

Applicants will have to appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Monday, 15th January, 1917, at 10 o’clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Monday, 15th January, 1917, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

Preference will be given to soldiers, either discharged or on active service, and to landless applicants who have children dependent upon them, or who have during the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully. The application of any single men of military age may be refused by the Land Board unless he can produce evidence of rejection from service by the military authorities.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIAPU COUNTY.—TUTAMOE SURVEY DISTRICT (NATIONAL ENDOWMENT).—SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL LAND.

RUN No. 98: Area, 2,746 acres; capital value, £5,500; half-yearly rent, £110.

Weighted with £414 6s. 5d., valuation for improvements comprising cottage, £60; 73 acres felled and grassed, £200 15s.; and 102 chains 38 links fencing, £153 11s. 5d.

Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 3,200 ft. above sea-level. Well watered. Broken and undulating pastoral country. Good soil, on papa and sandstone formation. Good mixed bush, with birch on highest ridges. About 73 acres felled and grassed. Situated thirty-three miles from Puha Railway-station and twenty-five miles from Whatatutu. Road formed to full-width dray-road to Arowhana Station, seventeen miles from Whatatutu, remaining eight miles by road up bed of Wairangiora Stream for one mile (at present in very bad state), and by 8 ft. track for seven miles, on which there are now several slips.

Incoming lessee will be liable to adjoining lessee, S. Hastie, for £19 10s., being half cost of boundary fencing erected by latter.

Full particulars may be obtained at this office.

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 8th November, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers, under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments, and the regulations thereunder.

Applications for the land in the First Schedule will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, and the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 10th January, 1917. Applicants must appear before the Land Board for examination at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Monday, the 15th January, 1917, at 10 o’clock a.m. The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination.

Applications for the lands in the Second Schedule will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 10th January, 1917. Applicants must appear before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Friday, 12th January, 1917, at 10 o’clock a.m. The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination.

The lands may be selected for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for sixty-six years, with right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years, and a right to acquire the freehold.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—COOK COUNTY.—PATUTAHI SURVEY DISTRICT.

SECTION 107, Block VI: Area, 200 acres. Capital value, £1,500. Annual instalment on deferred payments (without interest), £75. Half-yearly rent on lease, £30.

Situated on main Gisborne–Tiniroto coach-road, and is about twenty miles from Gisborne and two miles from Waerenga-o-Kuri. The improvements which go with the land consist of 53½ chains of road fence, and a half share in 138½ chains of boundary fence. There is about 80 acres of standing mixed bush on the section, consisting of ngaio, tawa, &c. The section is exceptionally well watered by good limestone springs, and also by a stream along the frontage. The soil is good, resting principally on limestone formation. Land is suitable for mixed farming, and consists generally of hilly terrace country with easy slopes, and about 30 acres of flat undulating land, all ploughable on the south-east corner adjoining the road. There is a fair amount of blackberry growing on the section.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Waipawa County.—Takapau Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block II: Area, 140 acres 0 roods 27 perches. Capital value, £2,450. Annual instalment on deferred payments (without interest), £122 10s. Half-yearly rent on lease, £49.

Weighted with £23 2s. 6d., being half value of western boundary fence.

Level and undulating country in grass, and all ploughable when stumped. Water probably obtainable by sinking wells or erecting artificial dams. Cheese-factory adjoins section. Land suitable for dairying. Improvements included in price of land comprise fencing valued at £34 2s. 6d.

Weber County.—Tautane Survey District.

Section 6, Block XIII: Area, 422 acres 3 roods 9 perches. Capital value, £4,000. Annual instalment on deferred payments (without interest), £200. Half-yearly rent on lease, £80.

Situated three miles and a half from Herbertville Township, to which it has access by formed road and sea-beach. Hilly and broken country, with good soil; about 30 acres bush, principally in gullies, and 60 acres sandhills more or less grassed; balance in grass; section ring-fenced with exception of sea frontage.

Buildings on the section comprise the remains of an old seven-roomed house and an iron shed with concrete floor, valued at £150, which are included in price of the section.

Dannevirke County.—Tahoraite Survey District.

Section 16, Block II: Area, 28 acres 0 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £620. Annual instalment on deferred payments (without interest), £31. Half-yearly rent on lease, £12 8s.

Situated on Law’s Road, about two miles and a quarter from Dannevirke by good metalled dray-road. Open grassed country, mostly flat, and all ploughable. Section well adapted for dairying. Watered by Mangatera Stream, which forms east boundary; good alluvial soil, on clay and shingle formation. Old fence on road frontage. Altitude, 600 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level.

Sale posters and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Settlement Lands in Auckland Land District open for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st November, 1916.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands in the First Schedule hereto are open for selection under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments; and that the lands in the Second Schedule hereto are open for sale or lease to discharged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 18th December, 1916.

The lands in the First Schedule may be selected on renewable lease only for terms of thirty-three years, with a right to acquire the freehold. Preference will be given to soldiers (either discharged or on active service) and to landless applicants who have children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding two years applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully. The application of any single man of military age may be refused by the Land Board unless he can produce evidence of rejection from service by the military authorities.

The lands in the Second Schedule may be selected only by discharged soldiers either for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on renewable lease for terms of thirty-three years, with a right to acquire the freehold.

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