JUNE 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1739

Weighted with £350, value of improvements comprising dwelling, about 260 chains fencing, and about 50 acres grassing. This amount may be either paid in cash or secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Department.

Situated on the Kurakura Road about seven miles from Kopaki Railway-station, by good metalled road. About 330 acres have been felled, but now reverted. Soil of medium quality, resting on sandstone formation. Well watered by springs. Altitude, 750 ft. to 1,100 ft. above sea-level. Estimated carrying-capacity in present state, 50 ewes and 25 cattle.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Four Years.)

Section 7, Block X: Area, 265 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £210. Half-yearly rent, £4 4s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of four years provided improvements to value of £45 are effected annually.

Weighted with £440, value of improvements comprising four-roomed house, cow-shed, engine-room, yards, about 250 chains fencing, approximately 180 acres felled and grassed. This amount may be either paid in cash, or by arrangement approximately £415 thereof may be secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Department, and the balance paid in cash.

Situated about three miles from Mangapehi Railway-station, post-office, and school by metalled road. Comprises light pumice country on clay formation. Well watered by streams and springs. It is subdivided into four paddocks.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, sixty-six years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years.

2. Rent, 4 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year.

3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards.

4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee) and a half-year’s rent. Rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is also payable.

5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous.

6. Order of selection is decided by ballot.

7. Successful applicant to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature.

8. Residence is to commence within four years in bush land or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, and to be continuous for ten years. Under certain conditions personal residence may be dispensed with.

9. Improvements.—Lessee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price, within two years to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price, and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, 10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every acre of third-class land.

10. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments.

11. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years’ continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission.

12. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed for area taken for such roads.

13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, New Plymouth.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 18th June, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 1st July, 1929.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent on them; to landless applicants who within two years immediately preceding date of ballot have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully; to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force; to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with the late war, if such persons immediately prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand; and to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty’s forces in connection with any war other than the war with Germany.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Clifton County.—Upper Waitara Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)

Section 4, Block XI: Area, 1,215 acres; capital value, £450; half-yearly rent, £9.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years, provided improvements to value of £45 are effected annually.

Weighted with £560, value of improvements comprising four-roomed slab dwelling, about 150 chains fencing, and approximately 250 acres felling and grassing. This amount may be either paid in cash or by arrangement taken over by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Department.

The property is of papa formation, and is situated about thirteen miles from the Matau School. Access is gained by way of the Waitara Valley Road. It is subdivided into nine paddocks, and is estimated to carry three hundred sheep and fifty cattle in its present condition. There are about 250 acres in fair pasture.

Clifton County.—Waro Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)

Section 8, Block IX: Area, 632 acres; capital value, £200; half-yearly rent, £4.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of five years, provided improvements to value of £40 are effected annually.

Weighted with £100, value of improvements comprising 3½ acres stumping, about 80 chains fencing, and two-roomed house and lean-to. This amount is payable in cash, or may, by arrangement, be secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Department.

The property is situated on the Mangaroa Road. Access from Waitara Railway-station, forty-seven miles distant by road, thirty-three miles of which is metalled and fourteen miles formed vehicle clay road. Nearest store and village is Ahititi, fourteen miles distant. Comprises 50 acres, road-frontage, of easy country with a few acres flats. Approximately 70 acres originally felled has reverted to fern and second growth. Balance is in standing bush, scrub, and fern. Soil is of a light nature, resting on sandstone and papa formation. Well watered by streams.

Stratford County.—Ngatimaru Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Three Years.)

Sections 11 and 34, Block II; Area, 400 acres; capital value, £200; half-yearly rent, £4.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years, provided improvements to value of £20 are effected annually.

Weighted with £170, value of improvements, comprising about 100 acres felling and grassing, and 30 chains fencing. This amount is either payable in cash or may be secured on first mortgage by arrangement with the State Advances Department.

Access to this property is by way of the Matau and Whetu Roads from Purangi Township. About 250 acres is in standing bush; the balance of area has been felled and grassed, but is now reverting to fern. Property is of sandstone formation. Estimated carrying-capacity in present state, one hundred sheep and twenty-five cattle.

Ohura County.—Tangitu Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Four Years.)

Section 4, Block VIII: Area, 259 acres 3 roods 17 perches; capital value, £455; half-yearly rent, £9 2s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of four years, provided improvements to value of £40 are effected annually.

This section has recently been milled. It comprises easy to hilly country with a few flats. It is situated on the Mangapapa Road about seven miles and a half from the Ongarue Post-office, Railway-station, and store, by metalled road and about three miles from Mangatupoto School. There is sufficient totara on the section to meet all fencing requirements. Soil is of good quality, resting on papa formation.

Whangamomona County.—Pouatu Survey District.

(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Seven Years.)

Section 12, Block I: Area, 472 acres; capital value, £120; half-yearly rent, £2 8s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of seven years, provided improvements to value of £20 are effected annually.