2984
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.
(Exempt from payment of rent for three years.*)
Section 8, Block XI: Area, 422 acres. Capital value, £355; half-yearly rent, £7 2s.

• After payment of first half-year’s rent, lease fee, and broken period rent (if any), a remission of rent will be allowed for a period of three years provided improvements to the value of £35 are effected annually during the exemption period. Weighted with £260 for improvements, comprising dwelling (poor), cow-byre, 120 chains fencing, orchard, felling and grassing. This amount may be either paid in cash or secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a term of thirty years with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, subject to a remission of interest for a period of two years provided additional improvements to the value of £15 are effected annually during the exemption period.
  Situated on the Owen Road, three miles from the Onaio Post-office and School, twenty-three miles from the Te Kuiti Railway-station, and seven miles from the Aria Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Access is by metalled road from Te Kuiti. Approximately half the area has been felled and reverted on steep faces. Half the area is ploughable. The property is badly infested with ragwort. The present condition of the section is—120 acres in worn-out pasture, 172 acres felled and hopelessly reverted, 1 acre orchard, and 129 acres in open fern and tea-tree.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.
(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.*)
Section 9, Block V: Area, 844 acres. Capital value, £220; half-yearly rent, £4 8s.

• After payment of lease fee and rent for first half-year and broken period (if any), a remission of rent will be allowed for a period of five years provided improvements to the value of £20 are effected annually during the remission period.
  Weighted with £175 for improvements, comprising a four-roomed dwelling, wool-shed, fencing, and felling. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £15, an amount of £110 to be secured by first mortgage to this Department for a term of ten years, half-yearly instalment £7 1s. 2d. if the purchaser is a discharged soldier, or £7 4s. 6d. for other purchasers. The balance of the loading—viz., £50—is repayable by half-yearly instalments of £5 on account of principal, together with interest calculated at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the unpaid portion of this loading.
  A sheep- and cattle-grazing property situated on the Waitehena Road, seventeen miles from Ohura Township and Saleyards and nine miles from school. Of the access road from Ohura, ten miles is metalled. The soil is a light loam resting on papa, clay, and sandstone; watered by springs and streams. About 200 acres undulating land, balance hilly to steep. About 40 acres is in fair pasture, 40 acres in worn-out pasture, the balance being partly grassed land now deteriorated and partly in natural state.

Waitomo County.—Totoro Survey District.
(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.*)
Section 10, Block V: Area, 470 acres. Capital value, £395; half-yearly rent, £7 18s.

• After payment of first half-year’s rent, lease fee, and broken period rent (if any), a remission of rent will be allowed for a period of five years provided improvements to the value of £50 are effected annually during the exemption period.
  Weighted with £297 for improvements, comprising dwelling (two rooms), garage, about 200 chains fencing, about 40 acres in fair pasture, and approximately 155 acres felling. This amount may be paid in cash or may be secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a period of thirty years at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. A remission of interest payable under the mortgage will be allowed for a period of two years provided improvements to value of interest remitted are effected annually.
  This property is situated on the Tikitiki Road, about fourteen miles from Kopaki Railway-station and Post-office, about two miles from Aramatai School, and about ten miles from Piopio Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Access is by way of metalled road from Kopaki. The area comprises about 40 acres fair pasture, about 155 acres in fern and second growth, about 25 acres swamp land, and approximately 250 acres in bush. Ragwort is very prevalent.
  A hilly broken section with a steep frontage leading to approximately 250 acres good tableland. Subdivided into four paddocks. The soil is loam resting on rhyolite formation.
  Full particulars can be obtained from this office.
  F. H. WATERS,
  Commissioner of Crown Lands.
  (L. and S. 9/2990, 22/1450/328, 34/248.)

Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 18th September, 1934.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the Lands Office, Post-office Buildings, Tauranga, on Wednesday, 24th October, 1934, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Tauranga County.—Te Papa Parish.
ALLOTMENT 282: Area, 12 acres 0 roods 12 perches. Upset price, £20.
Situated on the Tauranga-Oropi Road, nine miles from Tauranga Township by metalled road, four miles and a half from Greerton School.
The whole area comprises easy to undulating country covered in scrub, fern, and gorse. Approximately 60 per cent. to 80 per cent. of the section is workable, the soil being of a light pumice, resting on pumice formation; watered by a running stream at the south-western corner of the property. The area is not considered suitable as a separate self-supporting holding on account of the smallness of the area.
Terms and conditions of sale and full particulars may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.
K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. 16/2188.)

Settlement Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 18th September, 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, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 10th October, 1934.
Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, 11th October, 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.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Hawke’s Bay County.—Tangoio Survey District.—Tangoio Settlement.
Section 10, Block I: Area, 742 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £3,685; half-yearly rent, £92 2s. 6d.
Weighted with £550 for improvements, consisting of cottage, yards, 240 chains boundary-fencing, 200 chains subdivisional fencing, 207 chains road fencing, and 300 acres manuka scrub felled. This sum may be paid in cash or by forty-two half-yearly instalments of principal and interest amounting to £21 9s.
This property, which is suitable for sheep-farming and cattle grazing, is subdivided into five paddocks, and is situated on the Tangoio Settlement Road, four miles from Tangoio Post-office, five miles from Tangoio School, seventeen miles from Napier Railway-station, and ten miles from Petane Saleyards, access being by good metalled road; watered by running creeks. Loamy soil resting on clay subsoil with limestone outcrop. A fairly hilly section rising to an altitude of 1,000 ft. Approximately 50 acres are in good pasture, 300 acres felled, burned, and sown down in medium pasture showing second growth, and the balance of 392 acres is chiefly scrub. Blackberry is fairly prevalent in the gullies.
Any further particulars required may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(L. and S. XI/2/255.)