Nov. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3647

Situated on main Whangarei-Kaitaia Highway, about six miles from Moerewa Freezing-works. Access is from Otiria by good metalled road. All easy sloping country, mostly ploughable, in gorse, carrying some rough feed. Soil good, volcanic and clay. Well watered by permanent stream. Elevation, 500 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease: Thirty-three years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of thirty-three years, and a right to acquire the freehold. 2. Rent: Five per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable in advance on 1st January and 1st July in each year. 3. Applicants to be twenty-one years of age and upwards. 4. Applicants to furnish with applications statutory declaration, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee) and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is also payable. 5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous. 6. No persons may hold more than one allotment. 7. Successful applicants to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature. 8. Lessee to reside continuously on the land and pay all rates, taxes, and assessments. 9. Improvements.-Lessee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price; within two years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, 10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every acre of third-class land. 10. Transfer not allowed until expiration of fifth year of lease, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission. 11. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed for area taken for such roads. 12. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, North Auckland.

O. N. CAMPBELL,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/5541.)

Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 25th November, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, 23rd January, 1931.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 27th January, 1931, at 10 o'clock a.m.; but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants.

Preference at the ballot will be given to landless applicants who have one or more children dependent on them; to landless applicants who, within two years immediately preceding date of ballot, have applied for land at least twice unsuccessfully; to applicants who have served beyond New Zealand as members of the Expeditionary Force; to persons engaged on military service beyond New Zealand in connection with the late war, if such persons immediately prior to the war were bona fide residents of New Zealand; to applicants who, while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand as members of any of His Majesty's Forces in connection with any war other than the war with Germany; and to landless applicants in respect of whom the Board, after taking into consideration the experience and skill of the applicants in farming operations, the proximity of their homes to the lands the subject-matter of the ballot, and any other relevant considerations, is of opinion that they should be entitled to preference equally with applicants of any of the hereinbefore specified classes.

These sections are subject to section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral, mineral oil, gas, metal, or valuable stone under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose right shall be to the surface only.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Coromandel County.-Coromandel Survey District.

SECTION 9, Block II : Area, 99 acres 3 roods 35 perches. Capital value, £50. Half-yearly rent, £2.

Weighted with £75, for improvements comprising five-roomed kauri dwelling (iron roof, double brick chimney), three-bail cow-byrre, approximately 50 chains boundary-fencing; 50 chains road fencing, and 20 chains subdivisional fencing. This amount is payable in cash.

Area suitable for dairy-farming. Situated two miles from Kennedy Bay Post-office and school, and seven miles from cream dump and saleyards at Coromandel.

Access is by metalled dray-road. Undulating to hilly land, comprising 50 acres reverted pasture; balance old kauri workings. Well watered by creeks and springs. The soil is a very light loam resting on andesite quartz formation. Blackberry is plentiful.

NOTE.-The section is to be selected and held in conjunction with Section 15, Block II, Coromandel Survey District, adjoining.

Section 15, Block II : Area, 35 acres 2 roods 4 perches. Capital value, £25. Half-yearly rent, 10s.

Grazing property situated on the Coromandel-Kennedy Bay Road, three miles from Kennedy Bay Post-office and school, and seven miles from Coromandel Saleyards. Access is by metalled dray-road from Coromandel.

Section entirely unimproved, comprising worked-out kauri bush, the soil being a very light loam resting on andesite quartz formation. Watered by springs. Blackberry requires attention.

NOTE.-This section is to be selected and held in conjunction with Section 9, Block II, Coromandel Survey District, adjoining.

Thames County.-Ohinemuri Survey District.

Lot 2 of Section 3, Block II : Area, 547 acres. Capital value, £270. Half-yearly rent, £5 8s.

This sum is weighted with £25, for improvements comprising a mill. Payable in cash.

This property is suitable as a run-off area, and is situated approximately ten miles from Hikutai Post-office, school, store, and railway-station, four miles by metalled road, balance by formed dray-road. Originally under heavy kauri bush, portion now comprising old kauri workings in rough feed.

ABSTRACT OF CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Term of lease, sixty-six years, with a perpetual right of renewal for further successive terms of sixty-six years. 2. Rent, 4 per cent. per annum on the capital value, payable on 1st January and 1st July in each year. 3. Applicants to be seventeen years of age and upwards. 4. Applicants to furnish statutory declaration with applications, and, on being declared successful, deposit £1 1s. (lease fee) and a half-year's rent. Rent for the broken period between date of lease and 1st January or 1st July following is also payable. 5. Applications made on the same day are deemed to be simultaneous. 6. Order of selection is decided by ballot. 7. Successful applicant to execute lease within thirty days after being notified that it is ready for signature. 8. Residence is to commence within four years in bush land or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, and to be continuous for ten years. Under certain conditions personal residence may be dispensed with. 9. Improvements.-Lessee is required to improve the land within one year to the value of 10 per cent. of the price; within two years to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price; and thereafter, but within six years, to the value of another 10 per cent. of the price. In addition to the foregoing, and within six years, improvements are also to be effected to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, 10s. for every acre of second-class land, and 2s. 6d. for every acre of third-class land. 10. Lessee to pay all rates, taxes, and assessments. 11. Transfer not allowed until completion of two years' continuous residence, except under extraordinary circumstances, and then only with permission. 12. Roads may be taken through the lands at any time within seven years; twice the original value to be allowed for area taken for such roads. 13. Lease is liable to forfeiture if conditions are violated.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland.

K. M. GRAHAM,

(L. and S. 9/2532.) Commissioner of Crown Lands.