APRIL 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 963

Section 3: Area, 70 acres 1 rood 2 perches. Capital value, £4,000. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £100.

Section 4: Area, 77 acres 0 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £4,000. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £100.

Section 5: Area, 62 acres 0 roods 10 perches. Capital value, £3,700. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £92 10s.

Section 6: Area, 63 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £3,800. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £95.

Section 7: Area, 74 acres 1 rood 31 perches. Capital value, £4,650. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £116 5s.; £10 14s. 6d.*

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £275, payable in cash or by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £10 14s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment on lease £126 19s. 6d. The buildings comprise dwelling and shed.

Section 8: Area, 75 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £5,000. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £125.

Section 9: Area, 70 acres 0 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £4,300. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £107 10s.

Section 10: Area, 68 acres 3 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £3,700. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £92 10s.

Section 11: Area, 71 acres 1 rood 20 perches. Capital value, £3,850. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £96 5s.

Section 12: Area, 65 acres 0 roods 20 perches. Capital value, £3,700. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £92 10s.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

The property offered comprises part of Mr. R. L. Levin’s “Westella” Estate recently acquired by the Government for closer-settlement purposes. The block is situated on the Main Trunk at the Taonui Railway-station about two miles and a half from Feilding, two miles from Bunnythorpe, and eight miles and a half from Palmerston North. Access by good metalled roads. There are several dairy companies operating in the vicinity. A school adjoins the estate.

The settlement comprises practically all level land, ploughable when stumped. The major portion has been stumped and cultivated, and is now carrying a good sole of permanent grasses. The soil is of a rich loamy nature, varying from alluvial silt on shingle formation to a heavy clay subsoil. Efficient drainage is available, and has to a very large extent been completed both in main and subsidiary drains. Permanent water is available and for sections not already sufficiently served water is procurable by sinking to a depth of 12 ft. to 14 ft. The subdivisions are eminently suitable for dairy-farming.

The formation and metalling of the new roads off Cameron’s Line and Roberts’s Line, and the culverting of the Taonui Stream to give access to Section 5 will be proceeded with as early as possible.

IMPROVEMENTS.

All existing improvements, consisting of clearing and grassing, stumping, draining, fencing, gates, windmills, troughs, bridges, plantations, &c., are included in the capital values of the sections. The buildings must be paid for separately as above.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 6th day of April, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in the Southland 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 Tuesday, the fourteenth day of May, 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 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wallace County.—Jacobs River Hundred.

SECTION 4, Block XXII: Area, 384 acres 3 roods 23 perches. Capital value, £570. Deposit on deferred payments, £30; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £17 11s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £11 8s.

Weighted with improvements valued at £200, of which £70 must be paid in cash. The balance may be secured by mortgage to the Superintendent, State Advances Department, for thirty years, interest at 5 per cent.

Situated about three miles and a half from Fairfax Railway-station, dairy factory, and school, road being metalled to within two miles and a half of section; balance formed. Good quality soil on clay subsoil. There is also access by metalled road to within 50 chains of the north-east corner of the section; the balance being cleared but not formed, and gives access to the clearing of 60 acres, which is carrying good grass. A considerable area is flat to undulating, and will be suitable for cultivation when stumped. Suitable for dairying and grazing.

Section 9, Block XXII: Area, 293 acres 1 rood 27 perches. Capital value, £440. Deposit on deferred payments, £40; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £13. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 16s.

Weighted with improvements valued at £300, of which £50 must be paid in cash; The balance may be secured by mortgage to the Superintendent, State Advances Department, for thirty years, interest at 5 per cent.

Situated two miles and a half from Fairfax Railway-station, dairy factory, and school; road being metalled to within one mile and a half of section; balance formed. Good quality soil on free clay subsoil. Worked-out bush area. About 100 acres flat to undulating, and will eventually be capable of cultivation. Suitable for grazing and dairying.

The successful applicant will be required to arrange with the lessee of Section 47, Block VIII, Jacobs River Hundred, for payment of half cost of fencing erected on east boundary of Section 9.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor General, this 3rd day of April, 1929.

T. K. SIDEY, for Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Frank Lisle, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Whangape, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand, this 6th day of April, 1929.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Cadet, New Plymouth Savings-bank, appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 26th March, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Neville James Gardiner

to be a cadet in the New Plymouth Savings-bank.

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1929.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the under-mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Whangarei Acclimatization District.

Richard Henry Kehoe, of Whangarei.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/23/22.)