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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 2]

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 14th January, 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 February, 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 February, 1935, 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Ohura Survey District.

SECTION 1, Block VI: Area, 157 acres. Capital value, £100. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 1s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

Weighted with £100 for improvements, comprising 100 chains fencing and 75 acres felling and grassing. This amount may be paid in cash or secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a term of 36½ years, with interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum.

Situated on the Turoto Road, about three miles from Niho Niho Post-office and Railway-station, and about one mile from School. Access is from this village by two miles metalled road and one mile formed road. The soil is loam resting on clay and papa formation. This was originally light bush country, 75 acres of which was felled and grassed, but has now deteriorated to fern and scrub. Ragwort is prevalent. This section is only suitable for farming in conjunction with other land in the vicinity.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

(Native Land Settlement.)

Subsection 2 of Section 6, Block IV: Area, 149 acres. Capital value, £110. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 8s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 15s.

Weighted with £180 for improvements, comprising old whare, 170 chains fencing (poor), and 50 acres grass. This amount may be paid in cash or by a cash deposit of £10, £120 on first mortgage to the State Advances Department for a term of thirty years, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and the balance of £50 over a period of seven years by half-yearly instalments of £4 6s. 5d.

A rough, broken section, containing a fair amount of ploughable country situated at the junction of the Kopaki and Mapara South Roads, six miles from the Kopaki Post-office, Railway-station, and Saleyards. The Aratoro School adjoins the property, which is watered by running streams and springs, the soil being light loam resting on rhyolite formation. The land is suitable for grazing, and a small dairy herd could be carried.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Stratford County.—Ngatimaru Survey District.

Section 40, Block VI: Area, 200 acres. Capital value, £50. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 9s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1.

Weighted with £65 for improvements, comprising 60 chains of fencing and 200 acres original felling and grassing (now deteriorated). This amount must be paid in cash.

Situated on the Mangaoapa Road, one mile from Te Wera Post-office, School, and Railway-station, and ten miles from the Douglas Saleyards. Access is by metalled road twenty-one miles from Stratford. The soil is light loam resting on sandstone formation (watered by streams), and the section is hilly and broken in parts with a few small gorges. The property is suitable for grazing a few sheep and cattle.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

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

SECTION 14, Block XII: Area, 412 acres. Capital value, £305; half-yearly rent, £6 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 one year provided improvements to value of £30 are effected.

Weighted with £485 for improvements, comprising dwelling (poor), wool-shed, yards and dip, about 320 chains fencing (poor), and approximately 150 acres felled and burned. This amount may be paid in cash or secured by first mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent on a thirty-years table mortgage, with interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum. A remission of interest payable under the mortgage will be allowed for a period of one year from date of selection provided improvements to value of interest remitted are effected.

The property is situated on the Mangaiti Road, about seven miles from Mapiu Post-office, three miles from Kaitangaweka School, and eighteen miles from Kopaki Railway-station. Access is by way of metalled road from Kopaki. The soil is loam resting on papa formation and the property generally comprises steep and broken country containing approximately 100 acres which is useless. The property, which is suitable for grazing, at present comprises 150 acres felled and grassed in fair pasture, 150 acres felled but now reverted, 12 acres in bush, and 100 acres useless.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

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

Section 1, Block XI: Area, 1,282 acres. Capital value, £410; half-yearly rent, £8 4s.

• 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 £40 are effected annually.

Weighted with £700 for improvements, comprising six-roomed dwelling, two sheds, 480 chains subdivision fencing, 80 chains boundary-fencing, and 260 acres felled and grassed. This amount may be paid in cash or secured by first mortgage to the State Advances Department for a term of thirty years, with interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum, subject to a remission of interest for a period of three years provided improvements to the value of the interest remitted are effected annually.

A grazing property, situated on the Upper Waikaka Road, ten miles from the Matiere Post-office, Railway-station, and Dairy Factory, and seven miles from the Waikaka School. Access is by four miles of unmetalled and six miles metalled road from Matiere. The property is watered by springs, creeks, and river, and the soil is loam resting on sandstone and clay formation. About 40 acres are in birch bush, 60 acres in fair pasture, and 200 acres in fern and grass. The balance of the country is in dense fern and scrub. The land is generally light and deteriorates rapidly. Altitude from 600 ft. to 1,434 ft. The grass area is infested with ragwort and blackberry is also in evidence.

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. 9/3012.)

Education Reserve in the Canterbury Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 10th January, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Education Reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at the Lands Office, Timaru, at 12 noon on Thursday, 7th March, 1935, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE.

Mackenzie County.—Opihi Survey District.

Lot 4, D.P. 5006, part E.R. 1200, Block IX: Area, 436 acres. Upset annual rental, £136 12s. 6d.

Loaded with £2 10s. per acre for approximately 30 to 35 acres of turnips, to be paid in cash.