Feb. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 371

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Orahiri Survey District.

SECTIONS 2 and 3, Block VI: Area, 1,151 acres. Capital value, £360. Deposit on deferred payments, £20; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £11 1s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 4s.

Improvements, comprising two three-roomed dwellings, two wool-sheds, manure-shed, concrete circular dip and pens, fencing, stumping, ploughing, and grassing — total value, £340, are to be paid for in cash or by instalment mortgage to State Advances Superintendent; term, thirty years, at 5 per cent.

Situated on the Tapuae Road, four miles from Honikiwi School and post-office, and nine miles from Otorohanga Railway-station, dairy-factory, and post-office, four miles by metalled road; balance formed clay road. Cream cart passes within two miles and a half of the property. Soil of a light nature on rhyolite and sandstone formation. Well watered by running streams. Section 2 is very broken, covered with fern and tutu; portion was originally bush land felled and burned, but has now reverted. Section 3 is steep in places, with about 230 acres of easy tableland. About 200 acres fronting the Te Puhi Road are ploughable; approximately 30 acres have been ploughed and sown, but have now reverted.

Titles will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924.

Full particulars can be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 8th January, 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, 18th March, 1929.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 20th March, 1929, at 10 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant so desires, he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

The ballot will be held at the 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.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Ohura Survey District.

(Exempt from Rent for Four Years.)

SECTION 3, Block VIII: Area, 1,000 acres. Capital value, £750. Half-yearly rent, £15.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of four years, provided improvements to the value of £75 by way of re-grassing are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £1,220, valuation for improvements comprising four-roomed dwelling (with bathroom and pantry), wool-shed and yards (good order), cowbyre and yards, 270 chains fencing, 520 acres grassing.

This amount is payable by a deposit of £120; balance to be secured on mortgage for a term of 34½ years.

Property is situated in the Kakahi Road, ten miles from Toi Toi Railway-station, half a mile from the Kakahi School, and seventeen miles from Matiere Dairy Factory.

ABSTRACT AND 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 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.

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Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 4th February, 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, 25th February, 1929.

Applicants must appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 27th February, 1929, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant so desires he may be examined by the Land Board of any other district.

The ballot will be held 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.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Waitomo County.—First-class Land.

SECTION 13, Block V, Totoro Survey District: Area, 211 acres. Capital value, £260. Half-yearly rent, £5 4s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years provided improvements to the value of £26 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £330, valuation for improvements comprising 100 acres grassed, 44 chains draining, 120 chains fencing, and whare, which is payable in cash or by a deposit of £30; the balance to be secured by an instalment mortgage for a period of 34½ years; interest, 5½ per cent. No exemption from payment of interest is allowed under the mortgage.

A dairying and grazing farm, situated about nine miles from Piopio by formed dray road. Soil of fair quality on papa and sandstone formation, and the section consists of easy slopes, which are mostly ploughable and capable of being improved for dairying purposes.