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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 3

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 Gardner's Hall, Taumarunui, on Tuesday, the 22nd February, 1921, at 10 o'clock a.m.

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

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Huia Settlement.—Ohura County.—Ohura Survey District.

• Grouped.

† Buildings. Repayable in cash, or in forty-two half-yearly instalments of £31 4s.

‡ Buildings. Repayable in cash, or in forty-two half-yearly instalments of £40 19s.

NOTE.—The deferred-payment instalment on Sections 6s and 5s includes payment for buildings.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements not included in the capital value of the land are as follows :—

Section 5s.—House of six rooms, hall, office, and bathroom ; built of rimu, with iron roof; two double brick chimneys, three galvanized-iron tanks; hot and cold water, &c. ; value, £750. Cottage of four rooms; built of rimu, with iron roof; two iron chimneys, one tank; lessee can have permission to sell this for removal to any of the allotments on the estate for £150 or less; but, if sold, the money must be paid over to the Department. Stable and garage, 36 ft. by 12 ft., with lean-to attached; value, £150. Total value, £1,050.

Section 6s.—Wool-shed, capable of holding 500 sheep; built of sawn rimu and totara, with an iron roof; one 800-gallon tank, yards, dip, &c., and pataka; shearing plant; the whole valued at £800.

The improvements included in the capital value are for fencing valued as follows: Section 1s, 237 chains, £296; Section 2s, 165 chains, £231; Section 3s, 205 chains, £256; Section 4s, 125 chains, £156; Section 5s, 140 chains, £200; Section 6s, 16 chains, £25.

DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS.

Section 1s consists of undulating to steep country, and has all been felled and grassed. There are about 100 acres with some second growth on the gullies and on shady slopes. The section is well grassed.

Section 2s contains about 35 acres flat, remainder undulating and easy hills well grassed.

Section 3s contains about 20 acres flat, remainder undulating and easy hills of good quality carrying a good sole of grass.

Section 4s contains 20 acres of good flats, remainder easy undulating country with broad spurs. The section is clean, carries a good sole of grass, and is in splendid heart.

Section 5s is the homestead section, and has about 30 acres of flat, balance easy to steep hilly country. There are about 75 acres of mixed bush. Remainder is felled and grassed. There is a little fern in places.

NOTE.—Areas are subject to slight alteration.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

This settlement is situated close to the Town of Ohura, and about twenty-eight miles from the North Island Main Trunk Railway at Ongarue, and a little less from Okahukura, which is about seven miles north of Taumarunui. It is anticipated that the Stratford-Okahukura Railway line which runs through the property will reach it from Okahukura in two or three years. The land is good grass land, well sown down with a mixture of English grasses, and the carrying-capacity is about 1½ sheep per acre or the equivalent in cattle. The fences are generally sheep-proof in fair order, but some need repair. The formation is mixed volcanic clay and papa rubble, on papa. The land varies from undulating to hilly, with small flats in places, and lies at altitudes above sea-level varying from 400 ft. on the flats to 1,000 ft. on the ridges. A few dairy cows could be run if required on the land. Half the common boundary fences are reckoned in with the value of the sections. The main Ohura Road is metalled for about two miles and a half from the Township of Ohura, and the rest are dirt roads. The Kopuha Road is unformed.

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

G. H. BULLARD,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Lands in Hauraki Mining District for License.

District Lands and Survey Office,

Auckland, 12th January, 1921.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for license under the regulations for the occupation of pastoral lands in the Hauraki Mining District; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 21st March, 1921.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, the 22nd March, 1921, at 2.30 o'clock p.m.

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

Preference will be given to discharged soldier applicants.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COROMANDEL AND THAMES COUNTIES.

Second-class Land.

Whitianga Survey District

Hastings Survey District.

Third-class Land.

These sections are situated from about two to six miles south of Gumtown, in the upper reaches of the Whitianga Harbour, on the east of the Coromandel Peninsula.

There is a direct steamer service from Auckland to Mercury Bay, the nearest port of call, the trip occupying about eight hours. Access is thence by launch. Most of the sections have access by good bridle-tracks ; but provision has been made for the construction of necessary formed access.

Section 4, Block IV, Sections 5 and 6, Block VII, Whitianga, and Sections 2 and 3, Block IX, Hastings Survey Districts, contain proportions of mixed bush and fern and scrub land. Sections 7, 9, and 10, Block VII, Whitianga Survey District, comprise open land covered with fern and scrub. Section 3, Block XIII, Hastings Survey District, is practically all bush, mostly tawa, also a little kauri, rimu, and matai, with a heavy undergrowth of tree fern and supplejack.

The country is generally hilly and broken, the altitude ranging from 250 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level.

The soil varies from poor to medium quality, and the land when cleared should prove suitable for sheep and cattle-grazing purposes.

All sections are well watered by permanent streams.

Plans and full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. M. SKEET,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.