Section 27: Half-share in 21 chains drain on south-eastern
boundary and grassing, £60.

Section 37: Half-share in 42½ chains drains on north-
eastern boundary and grassing, £110.

Section 38: Half-share in 38½ chains drains on north-eastern
boundary and grassing, £106.

Section 39: Half-share in 77 chains drains on north-eastern
and south-western boundaries, £63.

Section 40: Half-share in 47 chains drains on north-western
and south-eastern boundaries and grassing, £90.

Section 41: Half-share in 52 chains drains on north-
western and south-eastern boundaries and grassing, £85.

Section 42: Half-share in 26 chains drains on north-western
boundary and grassing, £71.

Section 43: Half-share in 38½ chains drains on south-
western boundary and grassing, £85.

Section 44: Half-share in 38½ chains drain on north-eastern
boundary and grassing, £65.

Section 45: Half-share in 77 chains drains on north-eastern
and south-western boundaries, £63.

Section 46: Half-share in 38½ chains drains on south-western
boundary and grassing, £52.

Section 47: Half-share in 38½ chains drains on north-eastern
boundary and grassing, £51.

Section 48: Half-share in 92 chains drains on north-eastern,
south-eastern, and south-western boundaries and grassing,
£80.

Section 49: Half-share in 53½ chains drains on south-eastern
and south-western boundaries and grassing, £80.

Section 50: Half-share on 43 chains drains on north-eastern
and south-eastern boundaries and grassing, £90.

Section 51: Half-share in 26 chains drains on south-eastern
and south-western boundaries and grassing, £78.

Section 52: Half-share in 69½ chains drains on north-
western, south-eastern, and south-western boundaries,
and grassing, £103.

Section 53: Half-share in 74½ chains drains on north-
western and south-eastern boundaries and grassing, £100.

Section 54: Half-share in 30 chains drains on north-western
boundary and grassing, £77.

Section 55: Half-share in 30 chains drains on north-western
boundary and grassing, £35.

NOTE.—Drains bounding Sections 27, 40, 41, 42, 48, 49,
53, and 54 are still under construction, but the amounts
included in the capital values of the sections represent the
value of the drains when completed to lengths shown.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

1. Selectors will be required, before placing any stock upon
   their holdings, to securely ring fence, and also to fence off
   all drains, so as to prevent damage to roads and drains by
   stock.

2. The Department reserves the right of entering upon the
   lands at any time for drainage purposes, and of making and
   deepening drains, without payment of compensation.

3. Selectors will be responsible for maintenance of all
   boundary, catchment and surface drains within their sections.

4. Affecting Section 27: The Crown reserves the right to
   resume for Railway purposes at any time, an area not exceeding
   2 acres, without payment of any compensation whatever
   other than by a proportionate reduction in the capital value
   of the lease or license.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of
the Government, this 17th day of March, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in the Auckland 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 amend-
ments thereof, I, Sir Michael Myers, Administrator of the Go-
vernment of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the
report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by
section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby
declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be
open for sale or selection on Friday, the twenty-third day of
May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and also that the
lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the
applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or
be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the
prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased,
as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare
that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under
and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the
amendments thereof.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Whakatane County.—Rangitaiki Upper Survey District.

SECTION 8, Block V: Area, 188 acres 3 roods 34 perches.
Capital value, £330. Deposit on deferred payments, £20.
Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £10 1s. 6d.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6 12s.

Grazing proposition, situated four miles from Te Teko Post-
office, school, and saleyards; ten miles from Edgecombe
Railway-station, and one mile, by unformed road, from the
Whakatane-Rotorua Road. The section comprises approxi-
mately 15 acres poor pumice hill, in scrub and fern; balance
low-lying peat swamp with scattered flax bushes.

Suitable as a grazing area for dry stock. Well watered by
the Tarawera River and the Mangaoare Stream.

Rotorua County.—Rotorua Survey District.

Section 22, Block IV: Area, 164 acres 2 roods. Capital
value, £50. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £1 9s. 3d. Renewable
lease: Half-yearly rent, £1.

Weighted with £80 for improvements, comprising leanto
whare, cow-shed, cistern, and approximately 100 chains of
fencing. This amount is payable in cash.

Situated approximately five miles from Ngawaro Village,
fifteen miles from Rotorua, and eight miles from the rail at
Ngongotaha. Te Pu School half a mile distant, and post-
office opposite the section. Approximately 30 acres in
deteriorated pasture; 40 acres felled bush land, formerly
grassed, but now reverted to second growth; balance in
natural state. Blackberry is prevalent.

Special Condition.—The tramway of the National Timber
Co., Ltd., traverses Section 22, Block IV, Rotorua Survey
District, and all rights necessary for the working and main-
tenance of the tramway are reserved to the company.

Sections 23, 27, 31, and 32, Block IV: Area, 151 acres 3
roods 37 perches. Capital value, £40. Deposit on deferred
payments, £5; half-yearly instalments on deferred payments,
£1 2s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, 16s.

Weighted with £80, for improvements comprising shed,
implement-shed, cistern, and approximately 100 chains fenc-
ing. This amount is payable in cash.

Grazing property, situated nine miles from Ngongotaha
Railway-station and dairy factory, and fourteen miles from
Rotorua—five miles by metalled road; balance formed clay
road. A school and post-office adjoin the area. Approx-
imately 30 acres, formerly in pasture, now reverted to second
growth, with blackberry and ragwort spreading; balance
milled bush. Subdivided into five paddocks, watered by
cistern. Property suited for grazing if used in conjunction
with other lands.

Piako County.—Waitoa Survey District.

Section 7, Block XIII: Area, 127 acres 1 rood. Capital
value, £130. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £4 1s. 3d. Renewable lease:
Half-yearly rent, £2 12s.

Situated approximately nine miles from Morrinsville Rail-
way-station, and practically adjoining the Mangateparu
Settlement. Section consists of undulating land, intersected
by several gullies and broken ridges, running east and west.
The area comprises generally foothills with an easterly aspect.
This property would prove suitable as a run-off for dry
stock for any settler at present holding an area in the locality.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Hauraki Plains County.—Hapuakohe Survey District.

Lot 2 of Section 1, Block IV: Area, 339 acres 0 roods 25
perches. Capital value, £85. Deposit on deferred payments,
£5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £2 12s.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 14s.

Situated on the Waikaka Stream Road, about two miles
from Patetonga and twenty-two miles from Morrinsville by
metalled road for nineteen miles; balance formed clay road.
The nearest school and post-office are at Patetonga. Open
hilly country in fern and tea-tree. The soil is of a poor
quality on clay formation. Watered by Waikaka Stream.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, this 14th day of March, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.