3696
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

Situated off the Mangapohue Road, six miles and a half
from Te Anga Post-office, two miles and a half from Piripiri
School, and twenty-three miles from Hangatiki—twenty miles
by metalled road and three miles by formed road.

Approximately 270 acres have been felled and grassed, but
have now totally reverted to second growth; balance in
standing bush.

The section lies high, and is very broken, ragwort and gorse
being in evidence. The soil is a light loam, resting on sand-
stone and limestone formation. Watered by running streams.

Rotorua County.—Rotoma Survey District.

Section 6, Block II: Area, 550 acres 2 roods. Capital value,
£140. Deposit on deferred payments, £10; half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £4 4s. 6d. Renewable
lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 16s.

Weighted with £273, for improvements comprising two
whares, cow-byre, cart-shed, 220 chains boundary-fencing,
120 chains internal fencing, felling, and grassing. This sum
is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £13; balance secured
on mortgage for twenty years at 5½ per cent. interest; half-
yearly instalment, £10 16s. 1d.

Grazing property when developed. Situated seven miles
from Lake Rotoma Post-office and fifteen miles from Pikowai
Railway-station. Small area of flat land along the frontage,
remainder easy to steep hills of varying quality. Approxi-
mately 100 acres bush land, felled and grassed, now partly
reverted, 20 acres wholly reverted, approximately 80 acres
scrub and fern land; balance in standing bush. Ragwort in
evidence. No water on the section. Present supply led on
to the section from a spring across the road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 1st day of December, 1930.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2542.)

Opening Lands in Wellington 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, do hereby declare
and provide as follows, this is to say:—

1. The rural lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto are
   hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on
   Monday, the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine
   hundred and thirty-one, at the prices specified in the said
   Schedules, and for the purposes of section one hundred and
   thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924, the land in the First
   Schedule shall be deemed to be “heavy-bush land,” and the
   land in the Second Schedule shall be deemed to be “scrub
   land.”

2. The said lands 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 lands in the First Schedule for a period of
   three years from the date from which such lands are disposed of,
   and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any
   such rate from such lands 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 parts of the instal-
   ments on deferred payments as consist of interest), payable
   by him for the periods specified in the Schedules hereto, 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rates and rent or interest for a
period of three years.)

SECTION 4, Block XII: Area, 193 acres 2 roods. Capital
value, £270. Deposit on deferred payments, £15; half-
yearly instalment on deferred payments, £8 5s. 9d. Renew-
able lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 8s.

There are on the property improvements valued at £217 5s.
consisting of cottage, washhouse, man’s room, dairy, fencing,
stumping, felling, and grassing. This sum is made up of
improvements valued at £76 5s. which are included in the
capital value, and improvements valued at £137, of which
latter sum 10 per cent. is to be paid in cash and the balance
secured to the Public Trustee on first mortgage for a ten-year
term; interest at 5 per cent. per annum.

This section is situated on the left bank of the Raurimu
Stream, with a frontage to Kaitieke Road. Access is from
Raurimu Railway-station, one mile and a half distant by
formed dray-road. Fifty acres have been felled and grassed,
of which 15 acres have reverted to second growth; balance
standing bush, partly milled. Section is undulating, running
to high steep and broken country. The soil is of light quality
resting on papa and pumice formation. Altitude, 1,950 ft. to
2,776 ft. above sea-level.

Section 6, Block IV: Area, 360 acres 0 roods 10 perches.
Capital value, £540. Deposit on deferred payments, £40;
half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £16 5s. Renew-
able lease: Half-yearly rent, £10 16s.

Weighted with the sum of £45 for half-share of 45 chains
of boundary fencing. This sum is payable in cash.

Section 7, Block IV: Area, 431 acres. Upset price, £430.
Deposit on deferred payments, £30; half-yearly instalment on
deferred payments, £13. Renewable lease: Half-yearly
rent, £8 12s.

Weighted with the sum of £99, for improvements consisting
of four-roomed cottage, and half-share of 138 chains of bound-
ary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash.

These sections are situated on the Oio Valley Road, one
mile from Owhango Railway-station by good metalled road.
The bush on these sections has recently been milled. Soil is
of a light quality resting on papa formation. Both sections
are permanently watered by streams.

Section 6 has approximately 35 acres of easy undulating
land, 5 acres of swamp, easily drained; balance hilly country.
Section 7 has approximately six acres of level and undulat-
ing land; balance is hilly and broken.

Altitude ranges from 1,500 ft. to 1,650 ft. above sea-level.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Waimarino County.—Makotuku Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent or interest for six months.)

Lot 4 of Sections 3 and 4, Block VII: Area, 186 acres
2 roods 2 perches. Capital value, £1,010. Deposit on deferred
payments, £60; half-yearly instalment on deferred pay-
ments, £30 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent,
£20 4s.

Improvements included in capital value consist of felling
and grassing. Improvements not included in capital value,
and which have to be paid for separately, comprise road and
boundary fencing valued at £52. This sum is payable in
cash.

This section is situated on the Rangataua Road, one mile
from Raetihi–Ohakune main road and four miles from either
Raetihi or Ohakune Railway-stations, by good metalled road.
The section comprises a warm sheltered basin, rising to easy
slopes on boundary. Approximately three parts of the section
is level, and whole area is in grass, with the exception of ten
acres of fern. Soil of good-quality loam resting on papa forma-
tion. Permanently watered. Altitude, 1,800 ft. above sea-
level. This property should make a very desirable dairy-farm.

NOTE.—Area subject to slight adjustment on completion
of survey.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 1st day of December, 1930.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2552.)

Opening Education Reserve Land in the Auckland Land District
for Selection on Renewable Lease.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, and section
twenty-two of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, I, Charles,
Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in the
Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease
on Friday, the twentieth day of February, one thousand nine
hundred and thirty-one, at the rental 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.

Waitomo County.—Maungamangero Survey District.

SECTION 3, Block IV: Area, 1,584 acres 0 roods 3 perches.
Capital value, £625. Half-yearly rent, £12 10s.