Mar. 21.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and also that
the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option
of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred pay-
ments, or be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby
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 said Act.

SCHEDULE. *
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Pirongia Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block XII: Area, 200 acres 0 roods 30 perches,
Capital value, £400. Deposit on deferred payments, £20,
half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £12 7s. Renew-
able lease: Half-yearly rent, £8.

Suitable as a dairy farm, when improved.

Situated fourteen miles from Te Awamutu Railway-
station and dairy factory by metalled road. One mile from
Ngutunui Post-office and three miles from Ngutunui School;
six miles distant from Pirongia store. Undulating section,
practically all ploughable; at present covered with fern,
manuka, and tutu. Soil of fair quality on clay formation
indifferently watered by spring and small narrow swamp.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Pirongia Survey District.

Section 18, Block XIV: Area, 236 acres 2 roods 4 perches.
Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred payments, £15,
half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 12s. 9d.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5.

Situated ten miles from Te Kawa Railway-station, five
miles metalled, balance clay road; four miles from Ngutunui
School and post-office; and fourteen miles from Otorohanga
Dairy Factory. Undulating country, generally easy; approxi-
mately 200 acres ploughable. About 10 acres in light bush,
comprising tawa, hinau, and a few rimu. Light to medium
soil of fair quality on sandstone and rubble formation. Well
watered by permanent streams.

Piako County.—Waitoa Survey District.

Section 11, Block XIII: Area, 83 acres 0 roods 19 perches.
Capital value, £90. Deposit on deferred payments, £5;
Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £2 15s. 3d.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 16s.

Section 12, Block XIII: Area, 87 acres 0 roods 1 perch.
Capital value, £90. Deposit on deferred payments, £5;
half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £2 15s. 3d.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 16s.

Sections are situated about eight miles from Morrinsville,
of which distance six miles is by the main Morrinsville-
Tahuna road. The road on the eastern boundary of the
sections is unformed. Flat to undulating to broken land
in fern and manuka scrub, the soil being of a light nature on
clay formation. Watered by swampy creeks.

Applications from settlers in the locality for the areas for
use as off-runs in conjunction with their present holdings will
receive consideration.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 13th day of March, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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

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 that the lands
described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on
renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-sixth day of April,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, at the rental
mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that
the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the pro-
visions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT
LAND.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Tauranga County.—Te Puna Parish.

SECTION 231: Area, 181 acres. Capital value, £160. Renew-
able lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 4s.

Mixed-farming property, situated three miles from Te
Puna Railway-station, three miles and a half from Te Puna
School, and five miles from Tauranga, by good metalled and
pumice road. Section comprises fairly easy ridges with a
deep gully on the north-eastern boundary, approximately
120 acres being easily ploughable. The soil is of a light
pumiceous nature, resting on a pumice foundation, and is at
present all in light fern, tutu, and manuka. Watered by small
stream and spring. Gorse is spreading, and will require
immediate attention. This area will require the expenditure
of a fair amount of capital, before it can be brought in success-
fully.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Waihi South and Rotoma Survey Districts.

Section 1, Block X (Waihi South), Section 1, Block II, and
Section 6A, Block VI (Rotoma): Area, 2,508 acres. Capital
value, £630. Half-yearly rent, £12 12s.

Weighted with improvements, valued at £1,020, com-
prising dwelling of three rooms, cartshed and barn, cowbyre,
yards, waterwheel and piping, 120 chains of road boundary-
fence, 110 chains boundary-fence and 190 chains of internal
fencing, and grassing; repayable in cash or by instalment
mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for thirty
years, interest at 6 per cent.; half-yearly instalments,
£36 16s. 11d.

Mixed-farming proposition situated on Hannon’s Road,
eight miles from Pongakawa School and post-office; ten
miles from Pongakawa Railway-station, and twenty-two
miles from Te Puke Dairy Factory and saleyards.

The section comprises for the most part easy hill country
with scattered tablelands and a few steep faces with deep
gullies.

The soil is a light pumiceous loam, resting on pumice and
sandstone formation.

Watered on the eastern boundary by a stream difficult of
access, water at present being forced up to the homestead by
a waterwheel.

Subdivided into eight paddocks. Approximately 1,000
acres are in bush of poor quality; 1,000 acres in stunted to
heavy fern and tutu; 250 acres deteriorated pasture; 60
acres fair pasture; and 200 acres formerly grassed, now re-
verted to fern.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 13th day of March, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Westland Land District for Selection on
Renewable Lease.

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 that the land
described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection
on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of
April, 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 Act.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—VILLAGE SETTLEMENT LAND.

Runanga Borough.—Runanga Village Settlement.

SECTION 7, Block XLIII: Area, 1 rood. Capital value,
£30. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, 12s.

Runanga Village Settlement is situated at the State Coal-
mines, about three miles by road and rail from Greymouth.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 13th day of March, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Setting apart Crown Land under Section 161 of the Land
Act, 1924.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-
one of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson,
Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto
for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.