Dec. 18. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3867

SECOND SCHEDULE.

(For sale for cash or on deferred payments.)

SECTION 19, Block II: Area, 17 acres 0 roods 35 perches. Upset price, £51. Deposit on deferred payments, £6; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 9s. 3d.

Weighted with £58, for improvements consisting of five-roomed wooden house, with kitchen and scullery, valued at £40; three huts valued at £2 each; and a four-stalled cow-byre, separator-room, hen-house, and pig-stye, valued at £12.

This sum is payable in cash on the fall of the hammer.

The section comprises about 9 acres clear grazing; balance scrub. The soil is of light loam resting on clay bottom. Well watered by creek. Situated two miles from Tahakopa Railway-station, post-office, and school, by good metalled road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of December, 1930.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2559.)

Opening Settlement Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

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, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-sixth 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Horowhenua County.—Waitohu Survey District.—Waitawa Settlement.

SECTION 1s: Area, 89 acres 3 roods 4 perches. Capital value, £4,415. Half-yearly rent, £110 7s. 6d.

Loading for buildings, £1,000. Half-yearly instalment on buildings, £30.

Section 2s: Area, 78 acres 0 roods 35 perches. Capital value, £3,240. Half-yearly rent, £81.

Loading for buildings, £350. Half-yearly instalment on buildings, £10 10s.

Section 3s: Area, 77 acres 2 roods 18 perches. Capital value, £3,210. Half-yearly rent, £80 5s.

No buildings.

NOTE.—Areas, capital values, and rentals are subject to slight adjustment on completion of survey.

Section 1s: This section contains flat land, eminently suitable for dairying, the soil comprising a rich loam. It is subdivided into ten convenient paddocks, and is nice sweet country all in English grasses. An annual top-dressing should keep these pastures in first-class condition. There are two plantations and a convenient hedge on the property which afford ample shelter for stock. This section is well watered by electric pump and troughs. Access by main road.

Section 2s: This section comprises similar quality land to Section 1, and is subdivided into three paddocks. There is a small patch of Native bush on this section which comprises easy-sloping and flat land, and is a most desirable dairy farm.

Section 3s: This land is of a similar quality to the foregoing sections, and comprises easy and flat land of first-class quality, and ideal for dairy-farming. This section is subdivided into three paddocks, while there are two small patches of light bush affording ample protection and shelter for stock. Access to this and the previous section is by the Waikawa South Road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of December, 1930.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/1235.)

Opening Lands in the Otago 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 ninth day of February, 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 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Tautuku Survey District.

(Classified as undeveloped land.)

SECTION 2, Block II: Area, 279 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £210. Deposit on deferred payments, £10; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £6 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 4s.

Improvements not included in capital value and to be paid for in cash: five-roomed wooden dwelling, iron roof, brick chimneys, £95; old shed (two rooms), part old mill, and engine-shed, £10; fencing part south-east boundary, half value 10 chains at 5s. per chain, £1 5s.: Total, £106 5s.

The section is undulating and rising fairly sharply on the south side. About 30 acres partly open land with some grazing; approximately 200 acres milled and fire-swept; and balance in bush. Soil is of light loam on clay formation. Well watered by creeks. Situated two miles from Tahakopa Railway-station, post-office, and school, by good metalled road.

Clutha County.—Tautuku Survey District.

(Classified as undeveloped land.)

Section 7, Block XIII: Area, 137 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £82 10s. Deposit on deferred payments, £2 10s; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £2 12s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 13s.

Improvements not included in the capital value and to be paid for in cash: Part east boundary-fencing, half-share 12 chains, £3.

The section lies fairly well to the sun. The soil is of light loam resting on clay formation. The forest comprises mixed timber, approximately 100 acres in virgin bush, about 27 acres in scrub and manuka, and about 10 acres fairly open grazing. Maclennan Railway-station is thirteen miles distant, and Chaslands Post-office one mile. Adjacent to school.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of December, 1930.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2559.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Hundalee Scenic Reserves Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being lands reserved under the said Act), in trust, for the purposes of scenery preservation, as from the date of this notice until the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the Hundalee Scenic Reserves Board, as constituted by notification dated the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in Gazette of the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 7, Block XV, Hundalee Survey District: Area, 2 acres 1 rood.

Also Section 12, Block XVIII, Hundalee Survey District: Area, 7 acres 2 roods 16 perches.

Also Section 16, Block XVIII, Hundalee Survey District: Area, 80 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of December, 1930.

R. MASTERS,

for Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 505.)