Mar. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 803

Opening Settlement Land in Auckland Land District for Selection.

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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 Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Sir Michael Myers, Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Tauranga County.—Ohauiti Settlement.

SECTIONS 24 and 26 : Area, 734 acres. Capital value, £215. Half-yearly rent, £5 7s. 6d.

Weighted with £460, for improvements comprising dwelling of four rooms, bathroom, scullery and washhouse under one roof (in fair order), three-roomed leanto dwelling, cowshed, wool-shed, stable, cow-byre and yards (all in need of repair), two hundred and thirty-five chains road fencing, one hundred and thirty chains boundary-fencing, two hundred chains subdivisional fencing (all fencing in poor order). This sum is payable either in cash or over a period of fifteen years by half-yearly instalments of £22 3s. 2d.

Property suitable for grazing and dairying on the easy portions. Situated nine miles from Tauranga Railway-station and dairy factory, and four miles from Oropi School and post-office. The access road, which was at one time formed, is now in a bad state of repair. Area generally is of inferior quality, approximately seventy acres flat land in worn-out pasture, approximately two hundred and seventy acres easy hills ; balance fairly steep land. The property generally has reverted to tall fern, with stunted manuka on the flats. Gorse, ragwort, and sweetbriar are spreading. Light pumice soil watered by springs and creeks.

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

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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Opening Land in Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

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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, Sir Michael Myers, Administrator of the Government of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, this 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 Friday, the twenty-third day of May, 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 “scrub 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 two 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Maungamangero Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rates and rent or interest for two years.)

SECTION 1, Block I : Area, 789 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £300. Deposit on deferred payments, £15 ; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £9 5s. 3d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £6.

Weighted with £600, for improvements comprising three-roomed dwelling, shed, 240 chains fencing (in fair order), clearing and grassing. This sum is payable either in cash or may be secured by instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a period of thirty years at 5 per cent. Half-yearly instalments, £19 8s., exempt from payment of interest for two years from date of selection.

Grazing property, situated thirty-two miles from Te Kuiti Railway-station and seven miles from Kiritehere School and post-office. Section comprises 500 acres bush land, felled and grassed, now mostly reverted to second growth, fern, and manuka, with a little ragwort ; balance in standing bush. Watered by running streams.

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

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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Lands permanently reserved in the Wellington Land District for Recreation Purposes.

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MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month, but not later than six months, after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette :

And whereas by the seventy-first section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments :

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule hereto were, by Warrant dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in Gazette of the thirtieth day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for recreation purposes :

Now, therefore, I, Sir Michael Myers, Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands described in the Schedule hereto for recreation purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BOROUGH OF LOWER HUTT.

ALL that area in the Borough of Lower Hutt, Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 3·9 perches, more or less, being Section 53, Block XLVII, Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 12, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District : As the same is delineated on the plan numbered 169/16, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Borough of Lower Hutt, Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 0 roods 33·58 perches, more or less, being Section 9, Block XXXVIII, Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 22, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District : As the same is delineated on plan numbered 169/23, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 13th day of March, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.