2664
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Public Trust Office.—Appointment of Local Deputy Public Trustee, Whangarei.

IT is notified for public information that a branch of the Public Trust Office, under the control of Mr. A. Marshall, will be established at Whangarei, as from the 1st October, 1920.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of September, 1920.

ROBERT TRIGGS, Public Trustee.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 51 of 1920.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—DREDGING.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 15th September, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that suction dredger No. 2 is now moored approximately 137° (S. 58° E. mag.) 1,800 ft. from the light-tower on King’s Wharf, and has six moorings laid out in north, south, east, and west directions.

A line of pipes moored on punts extends approximately 300 ft. to the eastward of the dredger, and thence to the southward to the new reclamation wall.

Notice to Mariners No. 46 of 1920 is hereby cancelled.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Chart No. 1970; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1920, page 259.

ROBERT DUNCAN, Secretary.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 13th September, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered 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, New Plymouth, up to 11.30 o’clock a.m. on Saturday, the 23rd day of October, 1920.

The lands may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or selected on lease for a term of 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, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 27th day of October, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Tawhiohi Settlement.—Stratford County.—Omona Survey District.

Exempt from Rent for Two Years.

• Buildings. † Half-yearly instalment of interest and sinking fund on buildings.

NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment includes repayment for buildings.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements not included in the capital value are—
Section 1s.—Several sheds, including motor-shed, to the value of £130. Payable in cash, or in ten years by twenty half-yearly instalments of £8 8s. 5d; total half-yearly payment on lease, £105 16s. 11d.

Section 4s.—One modern dwellinghouse of five rooms, bathroom, pantry (hot and cold water laid on from cistern at wool-shed), washhouse, motor-shed, stable, and pataka, to the value of £790. Payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £30 16s. 3d.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £95 3s. 3d.

Section 8s.—Four-roomed house, with water laid on from wool-shed cistern, valued at £120; and four-roomed shearers’ hut to value of £180. Payable in cash, or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly instalments of £15 3s.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £95 14s.

Section 11s.—Concrete cistern, 41 ft. 5 in. by 5 ft. by 5 ft. 6 in.; concrete dip, 64 ft. by 3 ft. by 3 ft.; wool-shed, 100 ft. by 63 ft., with annex 18 ft. by 9 ft.; eight-stand shearing-machine; oil-engine; and wool-press—to value of £1,100. Payable in cash, or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £42 18s.; total half-yearly payment on lease, £44 9s. 6d.

The improvements included in the capital value are: Section 1s, 91 chains fencing, valued at £116; Section 2s, 100 chains fencing, valued at £100; Section 3s, 66 chains fencing, valued at £99; Section 4s, 84 chains fencing, valued at £126; Section 5s, 230 chains fencing, valued at £345; Section 6s, 180 chains fencing, valued at £270; Section 7s, 50 chains fencing, valued at £75; Section 8s, 150 chains fencing, valued at £225; Section 11s, 13 chains fencing, valued at £20; Section 9s, 156 chains fencing, valued at £234; Section 10s, 176 chains fencing, valued at £264.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

This estate is situated about eight miles from the railway-station at Douglas, and nineteen miles from Stratford. There is a metalled road to the boundary of the estate, but the internal roads are not metalled. A road is now formed as far as the wool-shed; and road-formation will be carried out to give access to all the subdivisions. The land varies in elevation from 500 ft. to 1,200 ft. above sea-level. It is well watered. It is well grassed with mixed grasses, including danthonia. The formation is part volcanic loam on papa, and part papa with shell rock in parts. It is good sheep-country, fairly steep in places, but with very few stock traps. There is more or less ploughable land on all the subdivisions, and it will be possible to carry on dairying on all the allotments in proportion to the flat and easy ground.

One of the subdivisions—Section 11s—contains a fully equipped wool-shed, with water-supply, dip, and shearing plant. There is a dairy factory about three miles from the property.

The fencing is nearly all good sheep-proof fencing in fair order. The value of half the common boundary fences and the internal fences are reckoned as part of the price of the land.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s.—Contains about 50 acres ploughable land, and the rest is good grazing-country. The homestead formerly on it was burned, but there are several sheds, including a motor-shed, to the value of £130, which have to be paid for separately. About 91 chains of fencing are included in the price of the land.

Section 2s.—Contains about 25 acres of ploughable land.

Section 3s.—Contains about 40 acres of ploughable land.

Section 4s.—Contains about 50 acres of ploughable land.

Section 5s.—Contains about 13 acres of ploughable land.

Section 6s.—Contains about 20 acres of ploughable land.

Section 7s.—Contains about 50 acres of ploughable land.

Sections 8s and 11s.—Contain about 30 acres of ploughable land.

Section 9s.—Contains about 30 acres of ploughable land.

Section 10s.—Contains about 60 acres of ploughable land.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

As the limit of the advance allowed by the Government is insufficient for the successful working of the sections, applicants must have additional capital of their own or guarantee of financial assistance to the following extent: Section 2s, £200; Section 5s, £1,200; Section 6s, £300; Section 8s, £150; Section 9s, £300; Section 10s, £750.

For two seasons the lessee of Section 8s and Section 11s must afford the other lessees in the settlement facilities for shearing and dipping, at a charge of not more than £2 10s. per day for the use of wool-shed yards and dip. Labour, benzine, &c., to be an extra charge.

The water-supply from the wool-shed cistern on Section 11s to the cottages must not be interfered with for two years.

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

G. H. BULLARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.