Feb. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 667

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Thames County.—Thames Survey District.

Section 11, Block IX: Area, 342 acres. Capital value, £265. Deposit on deferred payments, £15; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £8 2s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 6s.

Section 12, Block IX: Area, 293 acres. Capital value, £110. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 8s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 4s.

Section 13, Block IX: Area, 256 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £100. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 1s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

Sections are suitable as grazing-off runs for settlers at present holding areas on the Plains. They are situated north of Kirikiri Stream, access being from Kopu by road and bridle-track, a distance of approximately five miles; half-mile Thames-Paeroa Road, one mile eight-ft. formed road, and thence by a rough bridle-track. The bush on the area comprises tawa, rata, miro, hinau, tawhero, rewarewa, with scattered kauris, and with heavy undergrowth of punga, nikau, makomako, &c.

The soil is of a fair quality loam resting on clay formation. Fairly well watered by streams.

Section 11: Approximately 35 acres broken fern land, and 100 acres broken heavy bush land; balance undulating and terrace; heavy bush land.

Section 12: Approximately 70 acres broken fern land, 90 acres broken bush land, and 130 acres of very broken to precipitous heavy bush land.

Section 13: Approximately 130 acres of broken fern land and 125 acres of broken light to heavy bush land.

SPECIAL CONDITION.

As these sections are offered for grazing-off purposes only no liability for providing better access will be accepted by the Crown, and any expenditure required for improved access must be borne by the selectors.

Taumarunui County.—Tuhua Survey District.

Lot 2 of Section 1, Block VII: Area, 782 acres 2 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £300. Deposit on deferred payments, £15; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £9 5s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6.

Section is situated approximately four miles from Ongarue Railway-station, store, post-office, and school.

A formed road runs to the property which comprises mostly open country, with a few small patches of bush on the southern boundary. Section generally rough and broken, with outcrops of sandstone and rhyolite scattered throughout. This section will require the expenditure of considerable capital to bring into production.

Waitomo County.—Whareorino Survey District.

Section 1, Block VIII, and Section 1, Block XI: Area, 814 acres 8 roods. Capital value, £410. Deposit on deferred payments, £20; half-yearly instalment on deferred payment, £12 13s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 4s.

Section is situated on the Waikawau Road, about twenty-one miles from Awakino store, post-office, and saleyards, by metalled road for nineteen miles and a half; balance formed clay-road. There is a household school at Waikawau, two miles and a half distant. Steep and broken country. About 350 acres has been felled and grassed, but has now reverted to second growth; the balance being in heavy bush comprising tawa, rimu, with tawhero and rewarewa on the higher spurs, and with a thick undergrowth of supplejack, punga, &c. The soil is a light loam on rubble formation. Well watered by springs and running streams.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 24th day of February, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Nelson Land District for Selection.

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, Michael Myers, Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say,——

The rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are hereby set apart for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the rentals specified in the said Schedule, and shall be deemed to be light-bush lands.

After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for period of three years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Buller County.—Waitakere Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years.)

SECTION 2, Block IV: Area, 991 acres. Capital value, £250. Half-yearly rent, £5.

Situated ten miles from Westport on the main Westport-Charleston Road. Section comprises easy terrace land, approximately 20 acres being in light bush; balance being open pakehi land with short rushes and patches of manuka. Soil very poor on cement formation. Elevation varies from 180 ft. to 260 ft. above sea-level.

Waimea County.—Mount Arthur Survey District.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

(Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years.)

Section 33, Block XII: Area, 429 acres. Capital value, £110. Half-yearly rent, £2 4s.

Weighted with £115, for improvements consisting of grassing and 115 chains of boundary fencing. This sum must be paid in cash.

This section is situated near the Mount Arthur Track, about four miles from Pokororo Post-office, three miles and a half from Pokororo School, and eight miles from Ngatimiti Saleyards. Access by fair motor road to within one mile. Soil of fair quality resting on granite formation, with outcrops of limestone. Very steep broken country, rising to a height of 3,000 ft. With the exception of 100 acres of patchy bush, the area has been sown, but fern has taken charge.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 24th day of February, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the amendments thereof, I, Michael Myers, Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say:—

1. The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the price specified in the said Schedule, and for the purposes of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924, shall be deemed to be “heavy bush land.”

2. The said land may be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.

3. No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said land for a period of three years from the date from which such land is disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such land during such period.

4. After the first half-year’s rent (or the deposit on deferred payments, as the case may be) has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent (or such part of the instalments on deferred payments as consists of interest), payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded: Provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land, the rent or interest so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent or interest payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.