Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 7th August, 1929.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is 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, the 9th September, 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.
Waitomo County.—Tangitu Survey District.
(Exempt from Payment of Rent for a Period of Five Years.)
SECTION 31, Block I : Area, 187 acres. Capital value, £400.
Half-yearly rent, £8.
Exempt from rent for a period of five years providing improvements to the value of £40 are effected annually.
Weighted with £250, value of improvements comprising house, cow-shed, yards, approximately 200 chains fencing, about 15 acres of ploughing, and stumping. This amount is either payable in cash or may be partially secured on instalment mortgage for a term of twenty years by arrangement with the Superintendent, State Advances Department.
A remission of interest for a period of two years will be allowed under any mortgage securing balance of improvement loading provided improvements equal to double the interest are effected annually.
Situated on the Kakara Road about four miles from the Mokauiti School. Section was originally felled and about 100 acres grassed, but ragwort has secured a strong hold on this area. The balance of the felled area has reverted to wineberry. It is subdivided into five 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 l. (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 land 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.
    Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection. District Lands and Survey Office,
    Wellington, 7th August, 1929.
    NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections
    are open for sale or selection under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 23rd September, 1929.
    The land in the First Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.
    The Land in the Second Schedule is open for selection on renewable lease only.
    Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 10.30 o'clock a.m., on Wednesday, 25th September, 1929, but it any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.
    The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.
    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.
    FIRST SCHEDULE.
    WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
    SECOND-CLASS LAND.
    Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.
    SECTION 26, Block XVI : Area, 92 acres 0 roods 2 perches. Capital value, £230. Deposit on deferred payments, £30; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £6 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 12s.
    Situated at Horopito, with a frontage to the Huamango Road. Access from Horopito Railway-station, about one mile distant by formed dray-road. School and store at Horopito. Section practically level, and all in bush, which has been milled. Well watered by running streams. Light loam soil. Elevation, 1,800 ft. above sea-level.
    THIRD-CLASS LAND.
    Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.
    Lot 1 of Sections 7 and 8 and Lot 3 of Section 8, Block VI : Area, 1,478 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £535. Deposit on deferred payments, £35; half-yearly instalments on deferred payments, £16 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10 14s.
    Weighted with £965, value of improvements as follows : Lot 1, 98 chains fencing and 150 acres grassed ; two-roomed cottage and cow-shed; Lot 3, about 280 chains fencing, 127 acres grassed, whare, and partly erected dwelling. This sum is payable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £65, the balance being secured by a first mortgage repayable by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest over a period of approximately thirty-five years.
    Property is situated on the Oio Valley Road, about twelve miles from the Raurimu Railway-station—nine miles metalled road and balance unmetalled. Kaitieke Post-office and store is situated some three miles and a half distant. Lot 1 comprises steep and broken country with 200 acres in bush, 250 acres scrub and fern, and balance pasture. Lot 3 contains 40 acres easy undulating land, and balance runs to steep high ridges; 127 acres in grass, 100 acres fern and scrub, and balance bush. Soil is light loam on pumice and papa. Both sections well watered by running streams. Altitude, 800 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level.
    Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.
    Section 27, Block VII : Area, 1,982 acres. Capital value, £745. Deposit on deferred payments, £35; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £23 ls. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £14 18s.
    Weighted with £2,500, value of improvements comprising felling and grassing, stumping, about 860 chains of fencing, and buildings consisting of dwelling (four rooms, scullery, and bathroom), wool-shed, and dairy. This amount may either be paid in cash or secured on mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent; term, thirty years; interest, 6 per cent. per annum.