MAR. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 645

Settlement Land in North Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th March, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Government Buildings, Auckland, on Monday, 8th April, 1935, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SUBURBAN SETTLEMENT LAND.

Waitemata County.—Waari Hamlet Settlement.

SECTION 61: Area, 5 acres 1 rood 25 perches. Upset price, £220.

Loaded with £200 for improvements, consisting of dwelling, washhouse, fowlhouse, and shed, grassing, 9½ chains of road fencing, 21 chains boundary-fencing, and 6 chains of subdivisional fencing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £20, with the balance secured by a mortgage under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act for twenty-four years and a half with interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum; sinking fund, 2 per cent. per annum.

Section is situated about thirty chains from Sunnyvale Railway-station and one mile and a half from Henderson. Land is easy undulating and all ploughable, about 3 acres in fair pasture, and 2 acres in rough feed and gorse. Dwelling of three rooms, brick chimney, kauri weatherboards, iron roof, electric light.

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

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/20951.)

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 6th March, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and the Education Reserves Act, 1928; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 9th April, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, 11th April, 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

SETTLEMENT LAND.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Tangoio Survey District.—Tongoio Settlement.

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

SECTION 10, Block I: Area, 742 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £3,685; half-yearly rent, £92 2s. 6d.

• After payment of the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent (if any), and lease fee, an exemption from the payment of rent for three years will be granted provided improvements to the value of the amount so remitted are effected annually during the exemption period.

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 combined 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. Loamy soil resting on clay subsoil with limestone outcrop; watered by running creeks. A fairly hilly section rising to an altitude of 1,000 ft.; approximately 50 acres 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.

EDUCATION RESERVE.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Woodville County.—Woodville Survey District.

Section 2, Block II: Area, 75 acres 3 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £1,125; half-yearly rent, £22 10s.

Improvements included in the capital value consist of boundary, road, and subdivisional fencing, felling, burning and grassing, valued at £172.

Term of lease, thirty-three years, with perpetual right of renewal at revaluation.

This area, which is suitable for dairying on the flat and for dry cattle on the hills, would work in well with an adjacent property. Situated on Price’s Road, four miles from Woodville Post-office, three miles from Papatawa Railway-station, four miles from Woodville Saleyards, and half a mile from Maharahara West School. Access is by metalled road. Loamy soil resting on a clay and gravel formation; watered by a large stream flowing through the section. Approximately 14 acres in fair hill pasture, the remainder being bush land which has been felled and grassed and is now in fair pasture.

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 and 22/4066.)

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 4th March, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection 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, the 25th March, 1935.

The lands described in the First Schedule may at the option of the applicants be purchased for cash or on deferred payments or be selected on renewable lease. The lands described in the Second Schedule may be selected on renewable lease only.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

SECTION 4, Block XV: Area, 198 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £400. Deposit on deferred payments, £20: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £12 7s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8.

Loaded with £800 for improvements comprising six-roomed dwelling, fencing, felling, grassing and stumping. This sum is payable in cash or may be secured by instalment mortgage, term thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £24 to a discharged soldier selector, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £26, to other purchasers.

The property, which is suitable for grazing in addition to which a small dairy herd could be carried, is situated on the Waikaka Road, approximately three miles from Nihoniho Post-office, School, and Railway-station, and nine miles from Ohura Saleyards. Access is by metalled road. Approximately 25 acres is strong river flat, the balance being hilly land with loam soil on clay and papa formation; watered by streams and springs. About 75 acres in good pasture, 43 acres in worn-out pasture, 60 acres felled and grassed land (now deteriorated to scrub and fern), and 20 acres in bush.

Special condition.—Selector is required to undertake to spend at least £50 on repairs to fences and £50 in clearing second growth and regrassing within twelve months from date of selection.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Whangamomona County.—Mahoe Survey District.

Subdivision I of Section 9, Block V, and Section 2, Block VI: Area, 594 acres 0 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £150. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 11s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3.

Weighted with £240 for improvements, comprising whare, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or may be secured by an instalment mortgage for twenty years, half-yearly instalment £9 11s. 3d. to a discharged soldier purchaser, or £9 19s. 5d. to other purchasers.