APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1029

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st April, 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 24th May, 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 Wednesday, the 26th May, 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.
Reporoa Settlement (Part).—East Taupo County.—Paeroa Survey District.

DESCRIPTION OF SETTLEMENT.

Reporoa Settlement is situated about twenty-five miles from Rotorua, on the Rotorua–Taupo Road. Adjoining the settlement there is a school, also a post and telephone office. The district has a daily mail-service from Rotorua during the summer months and three times weekly during the winter months. The portion of the estate which is now being offered is generally level to undulating, the soil on the higher land being of pumice formation. Most sections contain a proportion of pasture as well as of partially drained swamp land of good quality, which is capable of improvement by further drainage. Water is provided in most cases by streams running through the sections.

IMPROVEMENTS.

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

Section 48.—Half share 64 chains boundary fence and 23 chains road fence, value £110.

Section 49.—Half share 90 chains boundary fence and 18 chains road fence, value £108.

Section 50.—Half share 60 chains boundary fence and 43 chains road fence, value £146.

Section 51.—Half share 106 chains boundary fence, value £106.

Section 52.—Half share 96 chains boundary fence, value £96.

Section 55.—Half share 84 chains boundary fence and 10 chains road fence, value £104.

Section 57.—Half share 124 chains boundary fence and 44 chains internal fence, shed with thermal bath, value £222.

Section 58.—Half share 74 chains boundary fence and 33 chains internal fence, value £140.

Section 59.—Half share 50 chains boundary fence and 20 chains internal fence, value £70.

Section 60.—Half share 82 chains boundary fence, value £82.

Section 61.—Half share 82 chains boundary fence, value £82.

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

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 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, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, the 13th May, 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 Drill Hall, Dannevirke, on Tuesday, the 18th May, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Akitio County.—Block VII, Mount Cerberus Survey District, and Block I, Waimata Survey District.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital values of the sections comprise fencing valued as follows: Section 1s, £166; Section 2s, £299; Section 3s, £190; Section 5s, £134; Section 6s, £95; Section 7s, £116.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Akitio Settlement is situated on the Dannevirke–Akitio coach-road, about thirty-nine miles from Dannevirke. The road is metalled for thirty-three miles to Ti-tree Point, and from there to the settlement and through to Akitio it is formed and used for heavy motor traffic though unmetalled. There is a daily motor and mail service from Dannevirke to Ti-tree Point, which contains a school, a post and telegraph office, and a store, and a tri-weekly coach and mail service past the settlement from Ti-tree Point to Akitio. The settlement is six miles from Ti-tree Point and some twelve miles from Akitio and the coast. Access may also be obtained by means of the Pahiatua–Pongaroa Road.

The property consists of good undulating grazing-country suitable for stock-raising. The soil is of fair to good quality, on sandstone and papa formation. Each section contains a good homestead-site and is well watered. Elevation ranges from 80 ft. to 800 ft. above sea-level.

Areas of sections are subject to slight alteration.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s.—Practically all in grass. Contains a small patch of shelter bush of from 1 to 2 acres.

Section 2s.—220 acres good grass, 20 acres mixed bush, balance mixed manuka scrub and grass. The bush consists chiefly of large kahikatea, with tawa, totara, &c.

Section 3s.—450 acres grass, balance manuka scrub.

Section 5s.—400 acres grass, balance manuka scrub and heather.

Section 6s.—6 acres mixed bush; balance grass, rushes, and patches of heather. The bush comprises totara, kahikatea, matai, &c.

Section 7s.—Undulating to steep country, covered with grass, rushes, and heather; about 100 acres of scattered heather land of little value in its present state.

SPECIAL CONDITION.

The bush on Sections 1s, 2s, and 6s is not to be cut or destroyed in any manner without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.