Mar. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 757

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 26th March, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is 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, 27th April, 1934.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 1st May, 1934, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Ranginui Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.)

SECTION 4, Block II: Area, 679 acres. Capital value, £340; half-yearly rent, £6 16s.

Weighted with £840 for improvements, comprising a dwelling of five rooms and bathroom (sound, but in need of repair), sheep-dip, 30 chains road-fencing, half-share in 140 chains boundary-fencing, 220 chains subdivisional fencing, 120 chains temporary subdivisional fencing, clearing and grassing. This sum is payable either in cash or by a cash deposit of £15, the balance—viz., £825—with interest over a period of twenty years by half-yearly instalments of £33 2s. 1d.

A grazing property, subdivided into five paddocks, situated on the Wharepuhunga Road, four miles from Ngaroma Post-office and School, thirty-four miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station and Dairy Factory, thirty-one miles being metalled road, balance formed clay road. Undulating to hilly and broken section of which approximately 400 acres has been grassed, but pastures now reverting to second growth; balance in natural state, standing bush. Ragwort requires immediate attention. Watered by the Puniu River and running streams.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/9432.)

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Settlement Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 27th March, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 11th April, 1934.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 13th April, 1934, at 10.30 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.

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SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wairoa County.—Opoiti Survey District.—Clydebank Settlement.

SECTION 5, Block XIV: Area, 704 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £2,000; half-yearly rent, £50.

This section, which forms part of the Clydebank Settlement, is about ten miles from Wairoa by good metalled almost level road. Butter-factory and sale-yards at Wairoa. Fraser-town is about five miles distant, and a school three-quarters of a mile away.

The property comprises generally hill land with fair aspect, permanently watered by the Kahauroa Stream and branches. Some 650 acres is in fair pasture and 54½ acres in worn-out pasture with patches of scrub, and in its present condition the section is estimated to have a carrying capacity of 650 breeding-ewes, 300 dry sheep, and 150 head of cattle. There is a good homestead-site on the section.

Improvements included in capital value comprise original grassing and fencing valued at £270.

Improvements not included in capital value, and which must be paid for separately, comprise dwelling 32 ft. by 36 ft. (old building), five rooms, sheds, cow-shed, wool-shed (50 ft. by 27 ft.), yards, 565 chains fencing, 200 acres felled, 200 acres grassed, 500 acres scrub and fern land cleared and grassed: Total value £2,500. A deposit of £150 must be paid, but this amount will be refunded on the successful applicant effecting improvements to an equal amount to the satisfaction of the Land Board, and the whole £2,500 may remain on instalment-mortgage for a term of thirty-four years and a half with interest 5½ per cent. to a civilian (half-yearly instalment £81 5s.), or thirty-six years and a half with interest 5 per cent. to a discharged soldier (half-yearly instalment £75).

Applications should be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Gisborne, from whom any further details required may be obtained.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/8490.)

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Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 27th March, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on optional tenure under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th April, 1934.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 18th April, 1934, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

SECTION 23, Block XI, and Section 17, Block XII: Area, 367 acres. Capital value, £765: Deposit on deferred payments, £25; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £24 1s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £15 6s.

Improvements, valued at £752 5s. 5d., comprise dwelling (good order), wool-shed, about 320 chains fencing, 70 acres felled and burned, 30 acres surface-sown pasture, and 169 acres felled and grassed (now reverted to fern and scrub). Of this amount £352 5s. 5d. is included in the capital value, the balance, £400, is to be repaid by a deposit of £50, with the remaining £350 secured by first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a term of thirty years, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.

The sections are situated on the Mapiu and Tatu Roads, about one mile from Mapiu Post-office and approximately twelve miles from Waimiha Railway-station. Access is by way of metalled road from Waimiha.

Section 23 (181 acres) is easy to hilly land, which, when further improved, is suitable for grazing and limited dairying, while Section 17 (186 acres) comprises about 30 acres of easy ploughable country, the balance being steep and broken and only suitable for rough grazing.

The whole property comprises approximately 30 acres in fair pasture, 70 acres in worn-out pasture, 169 acres bush land felled and grassed, but now reverted to fern and scrub, and 98 acres in bush.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Stratford County.—Ngatimaru Survey District.

Section 14, Block V, and Section 38, Block VI: Area, 400 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 £202 for improvements, comprising about 30 chains fencing, 125 acres felled, burned, and grassed. This amount may be paid in cash or by a deposit of £97, the balance (£105) secured on first mortgage in favour of the State Advances Superintendent for a term of thirty years with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.

The property is situated on the Mangaopapa Road, about three miles from Kiore Post-office, School, and Railway-station, and about twelve miles from Douglas Railway-station. Access is from Stratford by twenty miles metalled road and two miles and a half clay road. The soil is light loam resting on sandstone formation and the property generally is hilly to steep and broken country. About 275 acres is in its natural state. The land is suitable for grazing sheep and cattle.

Application forms and any further information desired may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, New Plymouth.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2961.)