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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

but not metalled. Access from Albany (ten miles) or Silverdale (three miles and a half) distant. School one mile and a half away. Undulating to hilly country, all unimproved; covered with tea-tree and fern. Soil poor clay. Poorly watered by swamp.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of November, 1930,

W. A. VEITCH, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2540.)

Opening Lands in the North Auckland Land District for Sale or Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the amendments thereof, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the nineteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one; 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 hereby 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.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Franklin County.—Koheroa Parish.

SECTION 195: Area, 140 acres 0 roods 22 perches. Capital value, £420. Deposit on deferred payments, £25; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £12 16s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 8s.

Situated at Koheroa, close to Pokeno–Paeroa Road. Access is from Pokeno Township, which is nine miles distant, by good metalled road. All level to easy undulating land of fair quality, soil is clay loam to gum clay, covered with fern and tea-tree. Watered by springs. Elevation 20 ft. to 50 ft. above sea-level.

Waitemata County.—Paremoremo Parish.

Section 294: Area, 30 acres 2 roods 4 perches. Capital value, £60. Deposit on deferred payments, £5; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 15s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 4s.

Situated on clay-road, about one mile off the Albany Main Highway, one mile from Albany Post-office, school, and shops. Good bus-service to Birkenhead. Undulating, nearly all ploughable, covered with stunted manuka scrub. Soil poor clay on clay formation. Well watered by small creek.

Waitemata County.—Waipareira Parish.

Section 197: Area, 4 acres 3 roods 39 perches. Capital value, £125. Deposit on deferred payments, £10; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 14s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 10s.

Weighted with £95, for improvements comprising shed, four fowlhouses and runs, four 600-gallon tanks, 5 chains road-fencing, 26 chains boundary-fencing, 8 chains subdivisional fencing, and orchard.

Loading to be paid for in cash or by deposit of £10, and the balance secured by a mortgage under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act for a period of fifteen years. Half-yearly instalments on mortgage £4 3s. 11d.

Situated on Cemetery Road, one mile and a quarter from Swanson Post-office, school, and railway-station. Access by metalled road from Swanson. Soil of clay and sandstone formation. Undulating land, all more or less ploughable. Subdivided into three paddocks, 3½ acres in worn-out pasture and 1¼ acres in orchard and garden. Suitable for homestead-site for working man.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otamatea County.—Mangawai Parish.

Section 264: Area, 192 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £193. Deposit on deferred payments, £13; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £5 17s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 17s. 6d.

Section situated off Mangawai–Waipu Main Road, and is approximately six miles from Mangawai Wharf by cart-road, one mile from Molesworth School, and twelve miles from Kaiwaka Railway-station. All undulating to broken land, in short tea-tree, fern, and gorse. Clay soil resting on clay formation. Section badly watered by soakage. Elevation ranges from 150 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level.

Whangaroa County.—Kaeo Survey District.

Sections 1 and 2, Block III: Area, 643 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £500. Deposit on deferred payments, £25; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £15 8s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £12 10s.

Weighted with £207, for improvements consisting of dwelling of two rooms and washhouse, shanty, 55 chains fencing, and 7 chains ditching. This sum is to be paid in cash.

The sections are situated fronting a side road off the main Whangaroa–Kaeo Road, about four miles distant from both Kaeo and Whangaroa by formed road, three-quarters of which is metalled. Very steep and broken country. There are about 150 acres green bush; balance manuka and fern. Twenty acres of bush have been felled and the land grassed, but this has now reverted to fern and blackberry. Soil is poor clay resting on rock foundation. The bush is scattered and of poor quality, and comprises rimu and taraire, with a few puriris and sufficient totara for fencing. Land well watered by several permanent streams.

Improvements included in capital value consist of 55 chains fencing in very fair order, two-roomed shanty (wood, iron roof, and chimney).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of November, 1930.

W. A. VEITCH, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2540.)

Notifying Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as the time at which the lands described in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash only, and the lands in the Second Schedule for cash or on deferred payments; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedules hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

(For sale for cash only.)

Ohinemuri County.—Ohinemuri Survey District.

SECTION 55, Block XIII: Area, 1 acre 2 roods 16 perches. Upset price, £16.

Section situated in Mackaytown, adjoining the Paeroa–Waih Main Highway, Mackaytown, being approximately one mile from Karangahake School, post-office, and store. Practically level section, comprising all ploughable land of alluvial nature; at present under rough feed.

Raglan County.—Pirongia Parish.

Allotment 377: Area, 4 acres 3 roods. Upset price, £5.

Section situated on a by-road branching off the Whatawhata–Harapepe Road, twenty miles from Frankton Junction. Three miles from Te Pahu School. Undulating section in fern and tea-tree, the soil comprising a light loam, resting on clay formation.

Waikato County.—Taupiri Parish.

Allotment 234A: Area, 3 acres 0 roods 9·5 perches. Upset price, £6.

Weighted with £12, for improvements comprising approximately 8 chains road-boundary fencing, clearing, and grassing. This sum is payable in cash.

Section situated on side road, off Te Hoe–Morrinsville Road, three miles from Te Hoe School and post-office; fourteen miles from Ohinewai Railway-station. Undulating land, all in grass. No water.