Factory. Hilly to broken country; about 160 acres felled
and grassed, balance standing bush. Soil of a light nature on
sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Area is
good healthy sheep-country. Access is poor.

NOTE.-This area is exempt from payment of rent for four
years, but the half-yearly instalments on improvements
are payable as from date of selection.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of October, 1925.

R. HEATON RHODES, for Minister of Lands

Opening Land in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General
Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide
as follows, that is to say:-

1. The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is
   hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on
   Monday, the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine
   hundred and twenty-five, at the respective price specified
   in the said Schedule, and shall be deemed to be "light-bush
   land."

2. The said land may be purchased for cash, or be selected
   for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease.

3. After the first half-year's rent has been paid by the
   selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a
   period of two years shall not be demanded; provided that
   if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the
   selector disposes of his interest in the land, the rent so con-
   ceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land
   Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the
   incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount
   of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board
   shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for Two Years.)

Waitomo County.-Pakaumanu Survey District.

SECTION 2, Block XV: Area, 1,223 acres. Capital value,
£700. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent,
£17 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £14.

Weighted with £300, valuation for improvements, com-
prising four-roomed cottage, repayable in twenty-one years by
forty-two half-yearly instalments of £11 14s.

This section is situated about nine miles from Kopaki
Railway-station, about five miles from Maungatewa School,
and about thirty-nine miles from Otorohanga Dairy Factory.
The soil is light pumice watered by running streams. Of the
area about 700 acres is open fern land, the balance being
in standing bush.

Improvements included in capital value comprise approxi-
mately 90 chains of fencing.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 20th day of October, 1925.

A. D McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening National-endowment Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir
Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national-
endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be
open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the fourteenth
day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five,
at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also
declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject
to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Tauranga County.-Tauranga Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block VIII: Area, 170 acres. Capital value,
£145; £235*. Half-yearly rent, £2 18s.; £11 17s. 5d.†

• Valuation for buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on build-
ings, containing four-roomed house and cow-shed, repayable

in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly payments of
£11 17s. 5d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £14 15s. 5d.

Rather broken area situated about five miles from Tauranga,
about two miles from school, and about four miles from dairy
factory. Soil of inferior quality, watered by springs and
streams.

Improvements included in capital value comprise approxi-
mately 35 chain boundary and 35 chains internal fencing.

Waitomo County.-Whareorino Survey District.

Section 4, Block XI: Area, 610 acres; capital value,
£690; half-yearly rent, £13 16s.

Situated about twenty-three miles from Awakino-about
twenty miles by metalled road, remainder pack-track. Steep,
broken country, covered with heavy mixed forest comprising
tawa, rata, rimu, towai, miro, &c., with thick undergrowth
of kikie, supplejack, and ferns. Soil of medium quality, on
sandstone formation; well watered by streams. Altitude,
300 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level.

Raglan County.-Rangiriri Survey District.

Section 3, Block VI: Area, 314 acres 3 roods 3 perches.
Capital value, £500; £500*. Half-yearly rent, £10; £20
1s. 3d.†

• Valuation for buildings.

† Half-yearly instalment of principal and interest on build-
ings, comprising five-roomed house with bathroom and
pantry, repayable in twenty years by forty half-yearly pay-
ments of £20 1s. 3d. Total half-yearly payments on lease,
£30 1s. 3d.

Area is situated about six miles from Rangiriri Railway-
station and cream-depot and about three miles from Roto-
ngaro School. About 150 acres swamp, about 144 acres
fern, and 20 acres worn-out pasture.

Improvements not included in the capital value comprise
five-roomed house with bathroom and pantry, valued at £500.

Improvements included in capital value are about 160 chains
four-wire fence (fair order) and grassing, valued at £150.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 19th day of October, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in the Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General
Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the
Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one
hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare
that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for
sale or selection on Monday, the fourteenth day of December,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five; and also that
the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option
of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for
occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease;
and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands
shall be sold, occupied, or leased as mentioned in the said
Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be
sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions
of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Whakatane County.-Rotoma Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block III: Area, 1,603 acres 1 rood. Capital
value, £980. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-
yearly rent, £24 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£19 12s.

Grazing-area, situated about nine miles from Pikowai
Railway-station, and about five miles from school. Inferior
broken scrub and fern country with a small area in bush and
watered by streams.

Improvements included in capital value comprise split-
timber house of four rooms, approximately 80 chains of
boundary and 68 chains of internal fencing.

Otorohanga County.-Mangaorongo Survey District.

Section South 20, Lot 2 of Section 21 and Lot 2 of
Section 27, Block IX: Area, 556 acres 0 roods 23 perches.
Capital value, £840. Occupation with right of purchase:
Half-yearly rent, £21. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£16 16s.

Weighted with £100, valuation for two-roomed house in
state of disrepair; repayable in ten years by twenty half-
yearly instalments of £6 9s. 6d.