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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

A mixed farming property, situated on the Te Kuiti-Taumarunui Road, half a mile from Mapiu Post-office and School, five miles from Mokauiti Saleyards, and thirteen miles from Waimiha Railway-station. Access is by metalled road from Waimiha. The property generally comprises easy to hilly country, but contains sufficient ploughable land for cropping purposes. It consists of 70 acres fair pasture, 99 acres felled and grassed, but now reverted, and 12 acres bush. The soil is loam resting on part clay and sandstone formation; watered by streams. Ragwort is spreading.

• Capital value includes the sum of £200 being part valuation for the before-mentioned improvements.

† 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 one year, provided improvements to the value of £50 are effected.

Special Condition.—The costs for the completion of both the first and second mortgages, and amounting to £2 4s. must be paid immediately an application is declared successful.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for one year.†)

Section 17, Block XII: Area, 186 acres. Capital value, £290*, half-yearly rent, £5 16s.

Situated on the Tata Road, one mile from Mapiu Post-office, half a mile from Mapiu School, six miles from Mokauiti Saleyards, and fourteen miles from Waimiha Railway-station. Access is from Waimiha by thirteen miles and a half metalled and half a mile clay road.

The soil is loam resting on sandstone formation; watered by streams. About 30 acres are ploughable and the rest of the section is steep and broken. The property, which is suitable for rough grazing, and a limited number of dairy cows, should be worked in conjunction with other lands already producing. It is subdivided into four paddocks, and fences are in fair order.

• Capital value includes the sum of £150, being valuation of improvements comprising approximately 80 chains fencing, and approximately 30 acres cultivation.

† 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 one year provided improvements to the value of £30 are effected.

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. 9/3026.)

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenure under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 25th March, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 27th March, 1935, at 10.30 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waitotara County.—Taumatamahoe Survey District.

(National Endowment.)

Section 6, Block I: Area, 843 acres. Capital value, £210. Deposit on deferred payments, £10. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £6 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 4s.

Weighted with the sum of £1,000 for improvements, consisting of felling, grassing and stumping, fencing, sheep-yards, whare, and pataka. The sum of £100 must be paid in cash and the balance of £900 will be secured on instalment mortgage under the provisions of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act for a period not exceeding 36½ years.

A grazing property, situated on Taunoka Road, which is fully formed from Kai Iwi. Access is from Wanganui, which is fifty-five miles distant by fully formed road, unmetalled for approximately twenty miles. There is access also from Waitotara, which is forty miles distant, of which six miles are by bad track.

The area comprises 12 acres good flats, the balance being easy to very steep land broken in places by gorges. Some 600 acres have been felled and grassed. The soil is a light loam resting on papa and clay formation; well watered by streams. Altitude, 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

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

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/18946.)

Land in Otago Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 11th February, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, 19th March, 1935, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Waipahi Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block VII: Area, 32 acres 0 roods 14 perches. Upset price, £64.

The section is situated four miles from Waipahi Post-office and Railway-station, access being by formed road off the Main South Road from Waipahi. The soil is fair quality resting on stony and clay bottom. The land is undulating, watered by creeks and springs, and would work in with an adjoining property.

Full particulars may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/3023.)

Pastoral Land in Otago Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 12th February, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral land will be offered for license by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 19th March, 1935, in terms of Part VI of the Land Act, 1924.

NOTE.—The attention of intending bidders is drawn to the fact that this run is offered subject to the provisions of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the licensee or licensees whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.—BRUCE COUNTY.

Table Hill Survey District.

RUN 668: Area, 1,350 acres. Upset annual rental, £30. Weighted with £15 (to be paid in cash) for improvements comprising approximately 60 chains road-boundary fencing.

This run is situated about six miles and a half from Waitahuna, and comprises mostly broken country lying away from the sun, with a large area in manuka and infested with fern. The area is suitable for grazing and is well watered by springs and creeks.

Special Condition.—The holders of miners’ rights and mining privileges have the right to use the watercourse running through Run 668 for the purpose of discharging therein tailings, mining debris, and waste water, without liability to pay compensation therefor.

Term of License: Thirty-five years from 1st March, 1936, but possession will be given on date of sale and rent will be payable from that date.

Full particulars may be obtained from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 8/9/395.)