FEB. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 561

Section 9s is mostly good easy hill country, of which 13 acres are ploughable; contains good building-site with home paddocks and a permanent water-supply.

Section 10s comprises good easy hilly country, and contains good homestead-site, with home paddocks and permanent water-supply.

Section 11s comprises good easy hill country, and contains good site for building and home paddocks, and has a permanent water-supply.

Section 12s comprises about 444 acres of good easy hill country and 10 acres of fair flat land, and contains good building-site and a permanent water-supply.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements not included in price of land, and which have to be paid for separately, are as follows:—

Section 4s.—Wool-shed and yards valued at £300.

Section 6s.—Four-roomed cottage valued at £350.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the sections comprise fencing valued as follows: Section 1s, £30 15s.; Section 2s, £36 15s.; Section 3s, £100 10s.; Section 4s, £108; Section 5s, £58 2s. 6d.; Section 6s, £66 15s.; Section 7s, £17 12s. 6d.; Section 8s, £61; Section 9s, £165 2s. 6d.; Section 10s, £80 5s.; Section 11s, £60 2s. 6d.; Section 12s, £80.

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

W. F. MARSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 19th February, 1920.

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 12th April, 1920.

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, 15th April, 1920, 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.

Whakatane County.—Block VI, Waihi South Survey District.—Hereford Park Settlement.

SECTION 1: Area, 358 acres 0 roods 13 perches; capital value, £2,800 (buildings, £390); instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £159 10s.; half-yearly rent on lease, £63, with interest and sinking fund on buildings, &c., repayable in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £15 4s. 3d. (total half-yearly instalment, £78 4s. 3d.). The deferred-payment instalment includes payment for buildings.

Section 2: Area, 366 acres 3 roods 16 perches; capital value, £2,420; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £121; half-yearly rent on lease, £54 9s.

Section 3: Area, 354 acres 3 roods; capital value, £1,780; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £89; half-yearly rent on lease, £40 1s.

Section 4: Area, 334 acres 3 roods 11 perches; capital value, £2,880; instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £144; half-yearly rent on lease, £64 16s.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The Hereford Park Settlement is situated about eight miles east of Paengaroa Village, and sixteen miles from Te Puke. The Pongakawa Railway-station is distant about three miles and a half from the estate by a good road. The soil varies from light to heavy clay. There is a considerable amount of surface-sown feed in many of the gullies. All the sections are fairly well watered.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Section 1 consists of level to undulating and hilly land; about 60 acres in grass, the balance in tea-tree, fern, &c.

Section 2 contains about 20 acres good swamp and 20 acres ploughed land in good grass, the balance being broken land in fern and tea-tree.

Section 3 contains about 20 acres in good grass, the balance being fern land, level to undulating.

Section 4 contains about 120 acres in good grass, the balance being fern land, undulating to hilly.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements not included in the capital value, and to be paid for separately, are as follows:—

Section 1.—Rimu and kauri house, four rooms and lean-to, also two 600-gallon tanks; shed 18 ft. by 9 ft., all iron, with one 600-gallon tank; chaff-shed and shearing-shed, all iron.

The improvements which are included in the capital value of the sections are as follows:—

Section 1.—Half share of 21 chains boundary fence, £7 17s. 6d.

Section 2.—Half share 72 chains boundary fence and 27 chains internal fence, £47 5s.

Section 3.—Half share 107 chains boundary fence and 76 chains internal fence, £97 2s. 6d.

Section 4.—Half share 55 chains boundary fence and 54 chains internal fence, £61 2s. 6d.

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

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Milling-timber in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 19th February, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned milling-timber will be offered for sale by public auction at the Land Office, Gisborne, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 19th April, 1920, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Timber Regulations thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 41, 18, 19, 20, and 21, Block II, Motu Survey District.

Area of milling-timber: About 240 acres.

Timber: Rimu, kahikatea, matai, miro, and kaiwaka; approximately 4,500,000 sup. feet.

Upset price, £2,250.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. The right to cut and remove the timber will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, the Timber Regulations made thereunder, and the following conditions, and may contain such additional conditions as the Commissioner in his discretion considers necessary in the interests of the Crown or of the public.

2. The quantities of the various timbers set forth in the above Schedule are approximate only, and are furnished for the information of intending purchasers, who are expected, previous to the sale, to make their own estimates of the quantities. No contract for purchase shall be voidable, nor shall the licensee be entitled to any abatement in price, by reason of the said timber being of less quantity, quality, and kind than as stated herein, nor shall any extra sum be claimed by the Crown if for any reason the quantity of timber is found to be in excess of that stated herein.

3. The successful bidder shall purchase the whole of the timber in the lot, and shall on the fall of the hammer pay in cash a deposit of 5 per cent. of the amount bid, together with £1 1s. license fee. The balance of the purchase-money to be paid by six equal half-yearly instalments, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year, the first of such payments to be made on the 1st July, 1920. Promissory notes must be given for the half-yearly instalments endorsed by approved persons.

4. The purchaser shall have the right to cut and remove all timber on the land comprised in the license for a term of three years from 1st July, 1920, which shall also include the period from date of sale to the said 1st July, 1920. The license shall be for the cutting and removal of the timber, and shall give no right to the use of the land.

5. The timber shall be cut in a face, and the Crown reserves the right of following up the mill-workings by felling and grassing such areas as from time to time will have been cleared of milling-timber, and of resuming any area from time to time for settlement purposes on which the timber has been cut out. Sufficient timber shall be left for fencing and general farming purposes.

6. The license shall be subject to any right of tramway already granted or that may hereafter be granted over the