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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Friday, 11th May, 1917, at 10 o'clock a.m.
The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIPAWA COUNTY.—RUA-TANIWHA, TAKAPAU, AND WAIPUKURAU SURVEY DISTRICTS.—WATEA SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

• Buildings.
  † Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £700; payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £27 6s. Total half-yearly payment, £136 13s.
  ‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £350; payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £13 13s. Total half-yearly payment, £74 17s.

NOTE.—Annual instalments on deferred payments, Sections 1s and 7s, include proportion of buildings.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s.—Situated on the main Takapau-Waipukurau Road, about four miles distant from Takapau Township and railway-station. Access is from Takapau or Waipukurau, four and ten miles distant respectively. The section comprises level terrace land in pasture, and is suitable for mixed farming. The soil is of loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. The section is watered by stream, and a well pumped by windmill. Elevation, 780 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

Section 2s.—Situated on the main Takapau-Waipukurau Road. Access from Takapau or Waipukurau, four miles and a half and nine miles and a half distant respectively. The section comprises level terrace land, carrying native and exotic grasses. The soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay. Section is watered by stream at south-east corner of section. Elevation, 770 ft. to 790 ft. above sea-level.

Section 3s.—Situated on the main Takapau-Waipukurau Road. Access is from Takapau or Waipukurau, four miles and three-quarters and nine miles and a quarter distant respectively. Section comprises level terrace land in old pasture. About 40 acres in wheat and oat stubble. Soil of a light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. Watered by stream, and water can probably be obtained by sinking. Elevation, 760 ft. to 775 ft. above sea-level.

Section 4s.—Situated on the main road between Waipukurau and Takapau. Access is from Takapau or Waipukurau, five and nine miles distant respectively. Section comprises level terrace land. About 60 acres has been recently laid down in English grasses, balance old pasture. Soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. Watered by stream near southern boundary. Elevation, 750 ft. to 770 ft. above sea-level.

Section 5s.—Situated on the main road between Takapau and Waipukurau. Access is from Takapau or Waipukurau, five miles and a quarter and eight miles and three-quarters distant respectively. Section comprises level terrace land in grass. Soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. Watered by stream near southern boundary. Elevation, 745 ft. to 770 ft. above sea-level.

Section 6s.—Situated on the main road between Takapau and Waipukurau. Access is from Takapau or Waipukurau, five miles and a half and eight miles and a half distant respectively. Section comprises level terrace land, all in grass, except about 60 acres in oats; which has been fed off. Soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. Watered by stream near southern boundary. Elevation, 740 ft. to 765 ft. above sea-level.

Section 7s.—Situated on the main road between Takapau and Waipukurau. Access is from Takapau or Waipukurau, five miles and three-quarters and eight miles and a quarter distant respectively. Section comprises level terrace land, in old pasture. Soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle formation. Watered by stream near south boundary, and well near house. Elevation, 730 ft. to 760 ft. above sea-level.

Section 8s.—Situated on the main road between Takapau and Waipukurau. Access is from Takapau and Waipukurau, six and eight miles distant respectively. Section comprises level open terrace land, all in pasture; except about 34 acres, which was ploughed for rape and not sown down. Soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. Watered by stream in southern portion of section. Elevation, 730 ft. to 750 ft. above sea-level.

Section 9s.—Situated on the main road between Takapau and Waipukurau. Access is from Takapau and Waipukurau, six miles and a quarter and seven miles and three-quarters distant respectively. Section comprises level open terrace land, in pasture for most part; 56 acres has been cropped for oats, and 18 acres is in good cocksfoot and clover. Soil is of light loamy character, resting on shingle and clay formation. Watered by stream. Elevation, 730 ft. to 750 ft. above sea-level.

IMPROVEMENTS.

Improvements which are included in the price of the sections consist of fencing valued as follows: Section 1s, £193 10s.; Section 2s, £74 10s.; Section 3s, £72; Section 4s, £79 16s.; Section 5s, £64 11s.; Section 6s, £58 8s.; Section 7s, £71 1s.; Section 8s, £52 10s.; Section 9s, £76 10s.

Improvements which are not included in the price of the sections, but which must be paid for separately, are as follows:—

Section 1s.—Seven-roomed house, with bath-room, scullery, wash-house, wool-shed and yards, stable, men’s whare, cow and implement shed, motor-shed, and windmill; total value, £700.

Section 7s.—Five-roomed house, with kitchen and store-room semi-detached, and shed (granary, stable, &c.); total value, £350.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Watea Settlement is situated about four miles from Takapau Township and railway-station, on the Takapau-Waipukurau main coach and motor road, and comprises level terrace country, with an altitude of from 730 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level. The country is open, and carrying mostly old pasture, comprising native and exotic grasses. Some 80 to 100 acres has been sown down comparatively recently. The settlement originally comprised two properties of a total area of 1,574 acres, and was purchased by the Crown from Messrs. White and Thomson, and cut up into nine allotments for purposes of close settlement.

The soil generally is of a light loamy character overlying a clay and shingle formation.

The block is traversed near the southern boundary by a stream, which affords a permanent supply of water. Access to this stream has been provided for all the sections. Water can also be obtained by sinking, as evidenced by the wells at the two homesteads to be found in the settlement.

All the sections are more or less fenced and subdivided, the fencing being generally in a fair state of repair.

The land generally is adapted for mixed farming.

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

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Westland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 15th February, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under section 140 of the Land Act 1908, on or after Thursday, the 17th May, 1917.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 3369, Block XIV, Wataroa Survey District: Area, 1 rood.

THOS. BROOK,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.