OCT. 30.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitotara County.—Waipakura Survey District.
Section 2, Block I : Area, 1,485 acres O roods 14 perches.
Capital value, £370. Deposit on deferred payments, £20;
half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £11 7s. 6d.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 8s.
Weighted with £1,394, for improvements consisting of dwelling (in poor repair), wool-shed, pataka, yards, fencing, felling,
and grassing. This sum may be paid either in cash or by a
cash deposit of £94, the balance being secured on instalment
mortgage for a term of fifteen years (under section 80 (3)
of the Land Act, 1924), interest being at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum.
This property is situated on Kauarapoa Road, twenty miles from Aramoho School; twenty-two miles from Aramoho Post-office, railway-station, and dairy factory; twenty-five miles from Wanganui Saleyards. Access by sixteen miles of metalled road and nine miles clay-road from Wanganui. Mostly rough broken hilly land, with a good homestead-site on road frontage. Approximately 700 acres of bush land has been felled, burnt, and sown; balance in natural state. Soil of light-quality loam resting on clay, papa, and sandstone. Altitude, 600 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. Subdivided into five paddocks.

Waimarino County.—Whirinaki Survey District.
Section 7, Block III : Area, 623 acres. Capital value, £160. Deposit on deferred payments, £10; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 4s.
Weighted with £1,100, for improvements consisting of felling and grassing 300 acres, 420 chains of fencing, whare, and a small iron wool-shed. This sum may be paid either in cash or by a cash deposit of £100, the balance being secured on instalment mortgage under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act for a term not exceeding thirty-six and a half years, interest being at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum if purchased by a discharged soldier or 5½ per cent. per annum if purchased by a civilian.
Situated on the Mangapurua Valley Road, five miles from Mangapurua School, and thirty-three miles from Raetihi Post-office, railway-station, dairy factory, and saleyards. Access is by formed dray-road, seventeen miles of which is metalled. Soil of light loam resting on papa, clay, and sandstone formation. The section comprises rather steep and broken land, rising from an altitude of 1,400 ft. to 2,100 ft. above sea-level. The section is suitable for grazing only. Approximately 300 acres have been felled and grassed; balance in bush. Subdivided into seven paddocks.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of October, 1930.
JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 9/2500.)

Opening Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule, and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.
SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Tauranga County.—Otanewainuku Survey District.
SECTION 2, Block VIII : Area, 880 acres. Capital value, £220.
Half-yearly rent, £4 8s.
Weighted with £640, for improvements consisting of a dwelling (four rooms, scullery, pantry, and bathroom) wool-shed, slaughterhouse (concrete floor), motor-garage, sheep and cattle yards, 180 chains boundary and 200 chains sub-divisional fencing, 200 acres pastures. This sum is payable either in cash or may be secured on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a period of thirty years, interest being at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. Half-yearly instalments under mortgage, £23 2s. 5d. No interest will be charged under the mortgage for a period of twelve months provided improvements equivalent to the interest otherwise payable are effected during the exemption period.

Grazing property situated on No. 3 Road, eleven miles from Te Puke Railway-station, school, and post-office. Access by formed and metalled road, to within a mile of the property. Altitude of section from 700 ft. to 1,585 ft. Approximately 50 acres about the homestead is practically flat, but slightly broken. Remainder runs from easy to very steep hills, mostly covered with fern, and wineberry in gullies. Ragwort requires attention. Approximately 50 acres fair pasture, 150 acres worn-out pasture, approximately 200 acres in bush ; balance reverted to second growth. Well watered by permanent streams. A portion of the section comprises a warm sheltered basin, of fair quality.

Tauranga County.—Aongatete Survey District.
Section 10, Block I : Area, 336 acres. Capital value, £170. Half-yearly rent, £3 8s.
This property, which is suitable as a grazing-off run, is situated on Lurd’s Road, seven miles from Katikati Post-office, three miles and a half from Aongatete School and railway-station. Hilly section, approximately 30 acres of which has been felled and grassed, but this has now reverted to second growth ; balance under heavy bush comprising tawa, rata, mangihau, puketea, kohekohe, with fairly dense undergrowth. Blackberry in evidence. Section is well watered by springs and streams.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Coromandel County.—Harataunga Survey District.
Section 16, Block VIII : Area, 462 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £240. Half-yearly rent, £4 16s.
Weighted with £1,085, for improvements consisting of a four-roomed dwelling (approximately two years old), fencing, felling, and grassing. This sum is payable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £305, the balance being secured on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for approximately £780 for a period of thirty years, interest being at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
Grazing property, situated on the Coromandel-Colville inland road, five miles from Colville Post-office and school. Cream collected one mile from the property. Section approximately 1,000 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. All hilly, mostly undulating, but steep and broken in parts. Approximately 180 acres good pasture, 200 acres worn-out pasture, 380 acres bush land felled; balance in natural state. This section comprises good healthy sheep country, being well watered, and capable of extensive improvement.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of October, 1930.
JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 9/2516.)

Opening Settlement Lands in the Gisborne Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlements lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Wairoa County.—Ardkeen Settlement.
LOT 1 of Section 1s : Area, 87 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £830. Half-yearly rent, £20 15s.
Eighty chains of fencing, valued at £180, is included in the capital value.
The house and outbuildings, valued at £400, are not included in the capital value, and must be paid for either in cash or by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £15 12s. each. The house contains four rooms, small porch, pantry, bath-room (no bath), double brick chimney, range, two tanks, covered in stand. Good solid building in need of renovating and painting.
Section formed the homestead-site of Section 1s. Situated just off main Wairoa-Waikaremoana Road, about fifteen and a half miles from Wairoa. Light pumiceous undulating land, mostly ploughable; in fair pasture and well watered.
Cook County.—Glencoe Settlement.
Sections 6s, 7s, 14s : Area, 149 acres 2 roods 33 perches. Capital value, £1,400. Half-yearly rent, £35.