Mar. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 635

the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for a public school (Tormore).

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement one acre, more or less, and being part of Section 5, Block XVIII, Lowry Peaks Survey District, commencing at the north-west corner of the said Section 5 and bounded as follows: Towards the north-west by the Main Cheviot Road, 316·3 links; towards the north-east and south-east by other part of the said Section 5, 316·2 links and 316·3 links respectively; and towards the south-west by Section 3, Block XVII, Lowry Peaks Survey District, 316·2 links, to the point of commencement: Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/132, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of March, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH, for Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Monday, the fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

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

Hawke’s Bay County.—Tarawera Survey District.

SECTION 2, Block VI: Area, 94 acres 2 roods. Upset price, £2,686.

Situated at Tarawera, on the Napier-Taupo main road, forty-eight miles from Napier and fifty miles from Taupo. The Tarawera Hotel is situated on this area, and the improvements comprise the hotel of sixteen rooms (with bar, kitchen, scullery, and bathroom). Outbuildings comprise dairy, store, staff’s quarters, washhouse, bottle store, benzine and oil store, motor-shed, &c. Other improvements comprise tennis-courts, grounds laid out, plantations, orchard, stockyard, fowlhouse and run, piggery and run, and fences.

The hotel is a favourite stopping-place for travellers to and from Taupo.

The land comprises fair flats, but steep sidelongings along creeks. In fair grass, principally danthonia. Would carry five or six cows and few sheep. Well watered. A hot spring is located on the property about one third of a mile from hotel.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of March, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Notifying the proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Auckland District for other Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange:

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor-General it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 337 acres 0 roods 15 perches, more or less, being Section 1 of Block III, Tuhingamata West Survey District, Crown land, and part Section 1, Block I, Tuhingamata East Survey District: Bounded towards the north by Tatua West Block; towards the north-east by part Run 92 and part Section 1, Block I, Tuhingamata East Survey District; towards the south by Whangamata No. 2E, Section 1B Block; towards the north-west by Whangamata No. 2B No. 1 Block; towards the south-west by Whangamata No. 2B No. 2B No. 1 and No. 2B No. 2A No. 1 Blocks; towards the north-west by Whangamata No. 1 Block.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 314 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Whangamata No. 2B No. 1, part No. 2F, Section 1, and part No. 2A Blocks, situated in Block V, Tuhingamata West Survey District: Bounded towards the north-east by Whangamata No. 2B No. 2A No. 2 and No. 2B No. 2B No. 2 Blocks; towards the south-east by Whangamata No. 2E, Section 2B No. 2, No. 2E 2B No. 1, No. 2E 2A, part 2F No. 1, and part No. 2A Blocks; towards the south-west and north-west by Whangamata No. 1 Block: As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. XII/15, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington and thereon edged red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 678 acres 2 roods 32 perches, more or less, being Pakuri B Block, situated in Block IV, Tuhingamata West Survey District: Bounded towards the north by Tatua East Block; towards the north-east by Pakuri A Block; towards the south-east by Tatua East Block and Run 92; towards the west by Lot 2 on plan 15276, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; towards the north-west by Tatua West Block: As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. XII/15, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged blue.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of March, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH, for Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in North 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 Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, 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.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Mangonui County.—Hohoura East Survey District.—Motutangi Drainage District.

(Exempt from Rent for Five Years.)

SECTION 18, Block XV: Area 101 acres 1 rood 5 perches. Capital value, £200. Renewable lease; Half-yearly rent, £4.

Section 19, Block XV: Area 113 acres 0 roods 37 perches. Capital value, £250. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5.

Section 20, Block XV: Area 114 acres 0 roods 34 perches. Capital value, £185. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 14s.

The sections form part of the Motutangi Swamp, situated eighteen miles north of Awanui and four miles from Pukenui Wharf, on the Main North Road from Awanui to Houhora. The soil in swamp portion is good, and when drained the sections should make good farms.

Section 18: About 70 acres good raupo and wiwi swamp; balance small hills, swampy flats, and shallow lakes. Soil is good to fair quality sandy loam resting on sandstone formation.

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