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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 38

Opening Lands 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 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 July, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Wharepapa Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for Five Years.)

Section 13, Block XV; Area, 367 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £185. Half-yearly rent, £3 14s.

Weighted with £90, valuation for improvements comprising a dwelling of two rooms and leanto, cowshed, and 70 chains of fencing, which require to be paid for either in cash or by instalment mortgage for a period of ten years; interest at 5½ per cent.; half-yearly instalments, £5 18s. 4d. A remission of the interest portion of the instalments will be granted over a period of five years conditional upon improvements being effected annually to the value of the annual remission.

Situated on the Waipari Road, about one mile from Ngaroma School and post-office, thirty-five miles from Te Awamutu Saleyards and dairy-factory, and thirty-two miles from Te Kawa Railway-station, by metalled road for thirty miles; balance unmetalled. About 120 acres felled and grassed (now reverted), 46 acres open country in manuka, and about 201 acres in standing bush comprising tawa, rata, rimu, with rewarewa and tawhero on the spurs, and a dense undergrowth of supplejack, punga, and makomako. The soil is of medium quality on rubble and rhyolite formation; well watered by running streams. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level.

Otorohanga County.—Manguorongo Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent and Interest for Three Years.)

Section 5, Block VII: Area, 188 acres 1 rood 12 perches. Capital value, £200. Half-yearly rent, £4.

Weighted with £130, valuation for improvements comprising 150 chains subdivision fencing, half-interest 170 chains boundary-fencing, dwelling (two rooms and leanto), cowshed, and old store-shed. This amount is repayable either in cash or by payment of a deposit of £20; balance on instalment mortgage for ten years at 5½ per cent., repayable by half-yearly instalments of £7 4s. 6d., on which the interest portion of the instalments will be remitted for three years conditional upon improvements to an equivalent value being effected annually.

Mixed farming property situated thirteen miles from Otorohanga Railway-station, dairy-factory, store, and saleyards; one mile from Maihihi Post-office and a quarter of a mile from Maihihi School. Metalled road passes the property. Undulating to broken country in fern and tea-tree, the soil being a light loam on clay and rhyolite formation; watered by running streams at front of property. Ragwort in evidence.

Raglan County.—Awaroa Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent and Interest for Two Years.)

Section 1, Block IX: Area, 507 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £380. Half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

Weighted with £925, valuation for improvements comprising rough slab cowyard; sheeypards; 220 chains road subdivisional fencing, and half-share in 280 chains boundary fencing; and felling and grassing; total value, £925. Repayable by a cash deposit of £100; balance on instalment mortgage for 34½ years at 5½ per cent., half-yearly instalment £26 16s. 3d., on which two years’ remission of interest will be allowed, providing improvements are effected annually of a value equivalent to the remission so granted.

Grazing property, situated about twenty miles from Glen Afton Railway-station, and six miles from Kaawa School and post-office. About 300 acres bush land felled and grassed; 34 acres open country cleared, ploughed, and grassed; 140 acres open fern land; 10 acres bush; and 20 acres swamp land; undulating to hilly country, soil a loamy clay on clay and sandstone. Watered by springs and streamlets.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Wharepapa Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent and Interest for Five Years.)

Section 9, Block XIV; Area, 519 acres. Capital value, £195. Half-yearly rent, £3 18s.

Weighted with £355, valuation for improvements comprising two whares, shed, and store-room; 30 chains road fence; half interest in 60 chains boundary-fence; approximately 240 chains subdivisional fencing, and felling and grassing. Repayable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £35, the balance of £320 to be secured by first mortgage of £160 to the State Advances Superintendent for twenty years at 6 per cent. (with two years’ exemption from payment of interest), and by a second mortgage of £160 for fifteen years at 5½ per cent., on which the interest portion of the instalments will be remitted for five years, conditional upon additional improvements to the value of £20 being effected annually.

Grazing proposition, situated on the Wharepuhunga Road, three miles from Ngaroma Post-office and school. Access from Te Awamutu, twenty-five miles by metalled and five miles by formed road. The soil is medium quality loam, resting on sandstone and rhyolite formation. Well watered by running streams. Undulating to hilly land, broken by a gully running across the centre. Subdivided into seven paddocks. Ragwort in evidence; 330 acres of bush land felled and grassed, now reverting to second growth; balance of approximately 190 acres in standing bush.

Section 2, Block IX, and Section 3, Block X: Area, 1,193 acres. Capital value, £590. Half-yearly rent, £11 16s.

Weighted with £545, valuation for improvements comprising dwelling of four rooms and outbuildings, two sheds, cattle-yards, clearing and grassing, half-share 350 chains boundary fencing and 325 chains subdivisional and road fencing, repayable either in cash or by instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for thirty years, with interest at 6 per cent., on which instalment payments will be free of interest for two years from date of selection.

Grazing property, situated three miles from Wharepuhunga School and post-office, and nineteen miles from Te Awamutu Saleyards. Section comprises broken country. About 250 acres in worn-out pasture, 330 acres bush land felled and grassed, now reverting to second growth; balance covered in bush and fern. Property is well watered by running streams.

Waitomo County.—Orahiri Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent and Interest for Three Years.)

Section 7, Block I: Area, 1,145 acres. Capital value, £350. Half-yearly rent, £7.

Weighted with £50, valuation for improvements consisting of approximately 120 chains of road-boundary fence, value £50. Payable in cash or in five years by half-yearly instalments of £5 15s. 6d., but with exemption from payment of the interest portion of such instalments for a period of three years.

Grazing proposition situated twenty-one miles from Otorohanga Railway-station and dairy-factory, eleven miles from Honikiwi School, and seven miles from the Te Rau-a-Moa Post-office. About 250 acres felled and grassed, now mostly reverted to fern and scrub; 150 acres felled, but not burned, now covered with second growth; balance in bush. Centre and back of section is badly broken by limestone bluffs. Watered by permanent streams.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of May, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH, for Minister of Lands.

Land proclaimed under Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Act, 1925, notified available for Purchase for Industrial Purposes.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the fourth section of the Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Amendment Act, 1926, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the undermentioned land is available for purchase as a site or sites for commercial or industrial purposes, and that the price fixed as a basis of negotiations with respect to the aforesaid land shall be seven hundred and fifty pounds per acre.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 5 acres 3 roods 21·9 perches, more or less, being part of Sections 15 and 77, Hutt Registration District, and being parts of Lots 1 and 2, D.P. 985, situated in the Borough of Lower Hutt, and bounded