1910
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Settlement Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th June, 1934.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property 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 North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 23rd July, 1934.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 25th July, 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.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waitemata County.—Motutara Settlement.

SECTION 16s: Area, 668 acres. Capital value, £1,680; half-yearly rent, £42.

Weighted with £600 for improvements, comprising two dwellings of four rooms each and twelve-bailed cowbyre and separator room, water-supply, piping, and troughs. This sum is payable in cash or by forty half-yearly instalments of £24 1s. 6d. each.

The land is situated at the end of the Oaia Road, nine miles and a half from Waimauku Railway-station, Post-office, and Dairy Factory, three miles and a half from Motutara School, and fourteen miles from Kumeu Saleyards. Access is by formed road, eight miles of which have been metalled.

The land is undulating to rough and broken—about one-third being ploughable. Soil is clay and clay loam on sandstone; well watered by streams, springs, and swamp. Subdivided into fourteen paddocks. There is about 110 acres of fair pasture, 200 acres surface sown, 90 acres light bush, 20 acres swamp, and balance in natural state. Suitable for grazing.

Bay of Islands County.—Te Pua Settlement.

Sections 1s, 2s, and 3s: Area, 355 acres 3 roods 35·7 perches. Capital value, £1,860; half-yearly rent, £46 10s.

Section 2s has access by way of side road from Kaikohe-Omapere Road, three miles from Kaikohe. Section 3s has access from the Kaikohe-Ohaewai Road, two miles from Kaikohe. The soil is of fair clay resting on sandstone and 45 acres is more or less flat, and the balance is easy rising country. It is watered by stream and springs and is subdivided into fifteen paddocks. Originally the area was in heavy bush which was felled and area was grassed, but it has reverted to fern to a fair extent. About 30 acres is in good pasture requiring top-dressing, about 194 acres in worn-out pasture, about 80 acres in danthonia, 10 acres of swamp, and about 42 acres is in manuka and fern carrying some rough feed. Blackberry is spreading in places.

There is a roughly built four-roomed house and a cowshed on Section 3s and a roughly built shed on Section 2s, together with ram, piping, and tank. Section 3s is suitable for dairying a few cows and grazing sheep and cattle whilst Section 2s is more suitable for grazing only.

Improvements included in the capital value consist of 12 chains road fencing, £9; 60 chains subdivisional fencing, £30; 76 chains boundary-fencing, £57; 84 chains boundary-fencing, £84; 250 chains subdivisional fencing, £187 10s.; 20 chains road fencing, £10; 220 acres felled, burned, and grassed, £415; 50 acres surface sown, £50; and 16 acres ploughed and grassed, £96.

Buildings: The buildings not included in the capital value are valued at £170, and must be paid for in cash or over a period of twenty years by half-yearly instalments of £6 16s. 5d.

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

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/23894 and 26/22229.)

Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 20th June, 1934.

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, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 23rd July, 1934.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 25th July, 1934, at 10 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.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Taumarunui County.—Piopiotea West Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for three years.*)

SECTION 13 and part Section 12†, Block I: Area, 515 acres 0 roods 32 perches. Capital value, £515; half-yearly rent, £10 6s.

† National endowment.

• After payment of rent for first half-year and broken period rent, an exemption from payment of rent for three years will be granted provided 40 chains of first-class boundary-fencing are erected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £710 for improvements, comprising four-roomed dwelling, wool-shed, approximately 270 chains of fencing, and felling and grassing. Payable by £10 cash, the balance of £700 to be secured by instalment mortgage, term, thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £21, to a discharged soldier selector, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £22 15s., to other selectors.

A sheep and cattle grazing property on which a few house cows could be milked, situated on the Pongahuru Road, four miles from Taumarunui Post-office, School, Railway-station, and Saleyards. Light loam soil resting on clay formation; watered by springs and streams. Hilly to steep land, approximately 20 acres ploughable when stumped and cleared, 100 acres in good pasture, 158 acres in worn-out pasture, the balance, 257 acres, being in native bush.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Whangamomona County.—Waro and Pouata Survey Districts.

(Exempt from payment of rent for two years.*)

Section 10, Block XIII, and Section 13†, Block XIV, Waro Survey District, and Sections 7† and 13†, Block I, Pouata Survey District: Area, 1,055 acres 2 roods 30·9 perches. Capital value, £380; half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

† National endowment.

• After payment of rent for the first half-year and broken period rent, an exemption from payment of rent for a period of two years will be granted, provided improvements to the value of £38 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Loaded with £1,320 for improvements, comprising whare, wool-shed, yards, 400 chains fencing, felling and grassing, payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £50, leaving £1,270 on instalment mortgage, term thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £38 2s., to a discharged soldier, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £41 5s. 6d., to other selectors. An exemption from payment of interest on the mortgage will be granted for a period of twelve months conditional upon scrub-cutting to the value of £60 being effected within that period, such scrub-cutting to be in addition to the improvements required to gain the exemption from rent above mentioned.

Grazing farm situated on the Rerekapa Road, ten miles from Tahora Railway-station, Post-office, and School, and fifteen miles from Kohuratahi Saleyards. Access from Tahora is by unmetalled road. Level to hilly and steep land, loam soil on sandstone and papa; watered by streams. Approximately 420 acres in good pasture. 250 acres in worn-out pasture, balance area, 385 acres, in natural state.

Stratford County.—Omona Survey District.

Section 5 and part Section 11, Block VII: Area, 651 acres 2 roods 15 perches. Capital value, £165; half-yearly rent, £3 6s.