1890

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 72

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board
for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, on Thursday, the 31st July, 1919, at 10 o'clock
a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination
of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Tauranga County.—Block VI, Maketu Survey District.—
Waire Settlement.

SECTION ls : Area, 83 acres l rood 27 perches; capital
value, £1,500; instalment on deferred payment (not including interest), £75; half-yearly rent on lease, £33 15s.
Section 2s : Area, 96 acres 2 roods 30 perches; capital
value, £1,780; instalment on deferred payment (not including interest), £89; half-yearly rent on lease, £40 ls.
Section 3s : Area, 121 acres 2 roods 30 perches; capital
value, £2,560*; instalment on deferred payment (not including interest), £158; half-yearly rent on lease, £57 12s.†

• Buildings, £600. †Interest and sinking fund, £30 6s; total half-yearly payment, £87 18s.
  NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment on Section 3s includes payment for buildings.
  Section 4s : Area, 134 acres; capital value, £2,020; instalment on deferred payment (not including interest), £101; half-yearly rent on lease, £45 9s.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Waire Settlement, purchased from O. P. M. Duncan, Esq., of Te Puke, is situated about three miles and a half from Te Puke Township and dairy factory. The main road from Matai to Rotorua intersects the property and gives good access to the dairy factory.

The land is mainly level to undulating, except on the extreme western and eastern boundaries, but is intersected by deep gullies, which, however, contain good grazing. Water can be obtained from springs on each section.

The block is all in good grass, with the exception of about 60 acres fallow on Section 4s, and about 30 acres of broken land along the Waire Stream.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The following improvements are included in the capital values of the sections :—

Section ls.—Twenty-five chains boundary-fence, forty chains internal fencing, and half share in forty-nine chains boundary-fence; valued at £90.

Section 2s.—Thirty-four chains boundary-fence and forty chains internal fencing, valued at £56.

Section 3s.—Fifty-six chains internal fencing, 110 chains boundary-fencing, and half share of thirty-one chains boundary-fencing ; valued at £140.

Section 4s.—Sixty chains boundary-fence and eighty-seven chains internal fencing, valued at £103 10s.

Improvements to be paid for separately :—

Section 3s.—Six-roomed house, chaff-house, whare, lean-to, milking-shed and engine-room, two corn-cribs, five 600-gallon tanks, and one hundred fruit trees; total value £600, to be paid in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £30 6s., including capital and interest. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £87 18s.

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

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in the Auckland Land District for Sale or Lease to Discharged Soldiers.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or lease under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th July, 1919.

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

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, the 31st July, 1919, at 10 o'clock a.m.

The ballot will be held at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Opotiki County.—Opotiki Survey District.—Hukutaia Settlement.

• Buildings. † Interest and sinking fund.

Note.—The deferred-payment instalment on Section 16s includes payment for buildings.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Hukutaia Settlement, purchased from E. M. Hutchinson, Esq., of Gisborne, is situated near the Opotiki Township. The distances of the sections range from three to five miles from the post-office. A good metalled road is made right to the block; the new roads lately surveyed through the area will be made shortly.

The block consists of approximately 400 acres of alluvial flat land; 1,300 acres of terrace land, fairly level, and all ploughable; 150 acres of steep hill country, originally bush, now felled and grassed; 200 acres of bush (reserved); the balance being steep faces of rather good land. About 75 acres have been cropped and require regrassing. Generally speaking, all sections are well grassed and have a good water-supply.

The sections facing the Waioeka River are liable to alteration in area and boundaries.

Hukutaia Settlement is situated within the Hunter's Creek Drainage District, and settlers will be liable for rates levied by the Drainage Board.

IMPROVEMENTS.

Improvements not included in capital value, and to be paid for separately :—

Section 16s (homestead).—Eight-roomed house, wash-house, and stable; four 600-gallon tanks, and small shed; total value, £550. Payable in cash or by twenty-eight half-yearly payments of £27 15s. 6d. Total half-yearly instalment on lease, £61 ls. 6d.

Special Condition.—The Crown reserves the right to remove all buildings, tanks, &c., from Section 16s other than those specified as above.

Improvements included in capital values of sections :—

Section ls.—Full share of ten chains and half share thirty-two chains boundary-fence, and twenty chains internal fence, £34.

Section 2s.—Half share forty-two chains boundary-fence, and thirteen chains internal fence, £29 2s. 6d.

Section 3s.—Half share thirty-four chains boundary-fence, twenty chains internal fence, £29 10s.

Section 6s.—Half share sixty chains boundary-fence, twenty-six chains internal fence, £46 5s.

Section 7s.—Half share thirty-four chains boundary-fence, eleven chains internal fencing, £23 18s. 6d.

Section 8s.—Half share thirty chains boundary-fencing, and seventeen chains internal fencing, £25 12s. 6d.

Section 9s.—Half share ninety chains boundary-fencing, and 41½ chains internal fencing, £100 2s. 6d.

Section 10s.—Seventy-five chains internal fencing, £46 17s. 6d.