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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

by forty half-yearly instalments of £12 0s. 9d. Total half-yearly payments on lease, £23 5s. 9d.

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

Improvements included in the capital value comprise fencing and windmill, valued at approximately £50.

Slightly undulating section, carrying a good sole of grass. Situated about five miles from Gisborne Post-office and two miles from Mangapapa by a good metalled road. Makauri school is about one mile distant. Section well suited for home for man having work in the district.

Opotiki County.—Hukutai Settlement.

Section 19s and part 15s: Area 105 acres 3 roods 5 perches. Capital value, £1,790; £500*. Annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £114 10s. Half-yearly rent on lease, £40 5s. 6d.; £20 1s. 3d.†

• Buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings comprising dwelling (of three rooms, bath-room, and pantry), cow-shed, and separator-room, valued at £500, to be paid for in cash or in twenty years by forty half-yearly instalments of £20 1s. 3d. Total half-yearly payments on lease, £60 6s. 9d.

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

Improvements included in capital value comprise fencing, draining, and grassing, valued at approximately £400. Well-grassed undulating section, situated about five miles from Opotiki Township. Well watered and suitable for dairying.

Uawa County.—Wharekaka Settlement.

Section 8s: Area 64 acres 2 roods 12 perches. Capital value, £1,500; £300*. Annual instalment on deferred payment (excluding interest), £90. Half-yearly rent on lease, £33 15s; £12 0s. 9d.†

• Buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on buildings comprising house of two rooms and cow-shed (three bails) and separator-room, valued at £300; to be paid for in cash or in twenty years by forty half-yearly instalments of £12 0s. 9d. Total half-yearly payments on lease, £45 15s. 9d.

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

Improvements included in capital value comprise fencing, ploughing, and grassing and draining; valued approximately at £220.

Good flat low-lying land, growing rushes in parts, situated about three miles and a half north from Tolaga Bay and about forty miles from Gisborne. Section well suited for dairying.

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

VINCENT I. BLAKE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 27th July, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-run is open for selection in terms of the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 9th September, 1925.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, the 10th September, 1925, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent on them, to landless applicants who within two years immediately preceding date of ballot have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully, to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force, and to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with the late war, if such person immediately prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand.

The ballot will be held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, at the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Maungaharuru Survey District.

Run 103: Area, 3,069 acres; half-yearly rent, £95.

Altitude, 600 ft. to 1,700 ft. Comprises a sandstone ridge, known as the Gorge Range, running from west to east and breaking off to the north in cliffs, with fair flats along the Esk River. About 100 acres of flat land suitable for homestead-site in north-west corner. Generally light pumicy soil, well watered. North and south boundaries are stock-proof streams.

Improvements include subdivisional fencing to the value of £400.

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

J. D. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Education Reserves for Lease by Public Auction.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 27th July, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Reserves described in the Schedule hereto will be offered for lease by public auction at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, the 17th September, 1925, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

Whangarei County.—Mangakahia Survey District.

Section W. 12, Block XII: Area, 170 acres; upset half-yearly rent, £4 5s.

Section 13, Block XII: Area, 437 acres 1 rood; upset half-yearly rent, £13.

Sections situated near Wairua River bridge, Titoki, fourteen miles from Whangarei, by good metalled cart-road. Elevation ranges from 10 ft. to 200 ft. above sea-level. Both sections poorly watered by swamp, which dries up in summer.

Section W. 12: About 20 acres flat, balance easy undulating, in fern, tea-tree, and wiwi. All worked-out gum-land, the soil being heavy clay on clay subsoil.

Section 13: About 80 acres easy undulating, balance mostly wet wiwi and fern and tea-tree flat. Nearly half of section has been potholed and burnt. Soil is of clay and light shallow peat on clay formation.

About 180 chains of fencing, valued at £76 17s. 6d., is included in the capital value. About 90 chains of the fencing is in fairly good order.

Whangarei County.—Tutamoe Survey District.

Lot 1 of Section 13, Block III: 648 acres 2 roods 16 perches; upset half-yearly rent, £12 5s.

Section situated in Tutamoe District, about nine miles from Pakotai Village and forty miles from Whangarei. Thirty-five miles of metalled road, three miles of unmetalled cart-road, remaining two miles unformed road. About 450 acres is bush, the balance being kauri workings and open country, overgrown with fern. The country is rather broken, with patches of undulating land. Soil is red clay; well watered by streams. Altitude, 400 ft. to 750 ft.

Whangarei County.—Town of Grahamtown.

Section 13: Area, 1 rood 36 perches; upset half-yearly rent, £3 10s.

Weighted with £7 10s., valuation for improvements, as follows: Fencing valued at £6 10s., and grassing valued at £1.

Section is situated in Onerahi Township, about a quarter of a mile from the railway-station and 1 chain from the post-office. All level land in grass, with a little tea-tree scrub. Soil is heavy clay on clay formation. Altitude, 150 ft. above sea-level. On account of locality, section is suitable for a seaside residential site.

Hobson County.—Tatarariki Parish.

Sections 55 and 80: Area, 219 acres 3 roods; upset half-yearly rent, £5.

Sections are situated on Tatarariki Coast Road, about four miles and a half distant from Te Kopuru. Access is from this town by metalled cart-road for two miles and a half, unmetalled for two miles. About half area is fairly level, about 20 acres slightly broken; remainder easy undulating, in fern, tea-tree scrub, wiri, rushes, and heather. Soil is grey and white sand on sandstone formation. Property is badly watered, but water could probably be obtained by sinking a well; adjoining owner has done this with successful results.

Special Condition.—The lessee must not sublease all or any part of the land for gum-prospecting purposes.