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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

Waitomo County.—Whareorino Survey District.
National Endowment.

Section 8, Block VII: Area, 683 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £340. Half-yearly rent, £6 16s.

Weighted with £90, valuation for improvements comprising 30 acres felling and grassing and 15 chains of fencing. This amount is repayable either in cash or by instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a term of twenty years; interest at 6 per cent.; half-yearly instalments, £3 17s. 10d.

Situated on the Te Marama Track, twenty-five miles from Awakino, twenty-one miles being metalled, one mile and a half formed road, and two miles and a half three-foot track; five miles from Whareorino School (household) and post-office; twenty-six miles from factory and saleyards situated at Mokau. The soil is of medium quality loam, resting on rubble formation. Well watered by running streams. About 30 acres felled and grassed; balance heavy bush, comprising rimu, puketea, tawa, hinau, &c., with a dense undergrowth of supplejack and punga. No buildings.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Rotoma Survey District.
National Endowment.

Section 2, Block II: Area, 1,094 acres 3 roods 11 perches. Capital value, £410. Half-yearly rent, £8 4s.

Weighted with £210, valuation for improvements comprising 40 acres cleared and grassed, 200 chains fencing, dwelling (two rooms). This amount is repayable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £50, the balance (£160) repayable over a period of ten years by twenty half-yearly instalments of £10 7s. 3d.

Situated approximately fourteen miles from Pikowai Railway-station and one mile from Forest Gate School.

Property comprises poor rewarewa, fern, and stunted tea-tree ridges, with approximately 30 acres of easy country along the road. About 40 acres in pasture, 150 acres standing bush; balance in fern and tea-tree. Soil is of a sandy nature resting on pumice formation. Watered by a spring and concrete trough near the dividing boundary between Sections 2 and 3.

Special conditions.—The right to the use of water from the spring situated near the common boundary is reserved to the holder of Section 3 adjoining. A private telephone party line runs across the land and a right of way, with full rights of ingress, egress, and regress for purposes of repair, maintenance, replacement, or removal of poles or of line is reserved.

Whakatane County.—Rotoma Survey District.
National Endowment.

Section 6, Block VII: Area, 339 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £85. Half-yearly rent, £1 14s.

Weighted with £340, valuation for improvements comprising 135 chains boundary fencing, 160 chains subdivisional fencing (in poor condition), two-roomed house, sheep and cattle yards. This amount is repayable by instalment mortgage over a period of twenty years by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £14 2s. 6d.

Grazing property, situated about sixteen miles from Pikowai Railway-station, and four miles from Pikowai South School. About 230 acres bush land felled and grassed, but now gone back to second growth, fern, and weeds; balance standing bush. Ragwort and foxglove are spreading. Well watered by springs and creek. Subdivided into three paddocks.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of November, 1928.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Auckland Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Matamata County.—Patetere North Survey District.—Selwyn Settlement.

SECTION 35, Block, XV: Area, 179 acres 1 rood 8 perches. Capital value, £335. Half-yearly rent, £8 7s. 6d.

Weighted with £100, valuation for buildings.

Dairying proposition, situated in the Selwyn Settlement, four miles and a half from Putaruru Railway-station, and half a mile from Litchfield School. Cream is transported by rail to Waharoa Dairy Factory. About 20 acres is worn-out pasture, balance reverted to fern and tussock, with ragwort and Californian thistle in evidence. Soil of very light pumice formation; watered by bore in the front; no water on back of section. Subdivided into two paddocks.

Improvements included in the capital value consist of half-share 66 chains five-wire boundary-fence, 100 chains road-boundary fencing, 114 chains internal fencing, approximately 20 acres worn-out pasture, also water-bore, valued at £105.

Improvements which require to be paid for separately comprise two-roomed cottage (rough lined) and one rough shed, valued at £100. Repayable either in cash or in ten years by twenty half-yearly instalments of £6 9s 6d.

Special Condition.—Full access rights are reserved for erection and maintenance of electric transmission-line over this section.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of November, 1928.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Lands.

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

I N 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 Friday, the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased as those 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.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua and Whakatane Counties.—Waihi South Survey District.

SECTIONS 3, 7, and 8, Block XI: Area, 1,119 acres 0 roods 27 perches. Capital value, £335. Deposit on deferred payments, £15. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £10 8s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6 14s.

Weighted with £192 10s., valuation for improvements comprising 50 chains of fencing, also four-roomed dwelling (in poor repair), with pantry and small bathroom at back. This amount is repayable either in cash or by payment of a deposit of £132 10s., the balance by ten half-yearly instalments of £6 18s. 7d.

Situated on the Punarehu Road, seven miles from Pikowai Railway-station, three miles from Forest Gate School, and fourteen miles from Matata Post-office. Light soil of inferior quality, resting on pumice formation. Section indifferently watered by springs.

Practically all broken country, covered with stunted fern and manuka; 10 acres grassed, now all reverted.

Rotorua County.—Rotoma Survey District.

Section 1A, Block II: Area, 616 acres. Capital value, £230. Deposit on deferred payments, £10. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 3s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 12s.

Weighted with £15, valuation for improvements comprising 60 chains boundary fencing, to be paid in cash.

Grazing property, situated on the Wairoa Valley Road, about fourteen miles by formed road from Pikowai Railway-station, four miles from Forest Gate School, ten miles from Rotoma Post-office.