1590
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 41

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in the Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Wellington, and Canterbury Land Districts forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 5th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolutions of the Land Boards of the respective land districts, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

S.G.R. | 203 | Run 104 | .. | Maungaharuru | .. | B. D. Edwards.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

R.L. | 238 | 11 and 12 | XIII | Mahoe | .. | .. |
O.R.P. | 343 | 15 | IV | Omona | .. | .. |
O.R.P. | 344 | 8 | I | Taurakawa | .. | .. |
F.H. | 254 | 16 | IV | Omona | .. | .. |
L.P. | 691 | 2 and 3 | VI | Waro | .. | .. |
L.P. | 711 | 1 | VI | ,, | .. | .. |

} M. J. Symes.
} D. Lange.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

H.V.D.P. | 798 | 49 | XXIX | Hutt Valley Settlement | .. | E. Mason.
H.V.D.P. | 836 | 14 | LIII | ,, | .. | T. W. Gill.
H.V.D.P. | 397 | 17 | XXXIX | ,, | .. | M. Wilkinson.
H.V.D.P. | 414 | 5 | XXV | ,, | .. | G. A. Power.
H.V.D.P. | 398 | 16 | XXXIX | ,, | .. | P. J. Wilkinson.
H.V.D.P. | 425 | 5 | XXXIX | ,, | .. | F. Lineker.
S.G.R. | 221 | 8 | { XV | Whirinaki | .. | .. |
T.R.L. | 17 | 18 | V | Rarete | .. | .. |
| VI | Rangataua Township | .. | E. A. S. Morgan.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

S.G.R. | 166 | R.S. 36845 | V, VI, VII, IX, X, and XI | Upper Ashley | .. | A. C. Witty.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 5th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are 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, 22nd July, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 24th July, 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.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Otamatea County.—Waipu Survey District.—Bickerstaffe Settlement.

SECTION 37, Block XII: Area, 241 acres 0 roods 15 perches. Capital value, £930; half-yearly rent, £23 5s.

Loaded with £240 for improvements, consisting of 40 chains of road fencing and 90 chains of boundary fencing and 174 acres cleared of logs and fallen timber. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £40 and the balance of £200 secured to the State Advances Superintendent by way of first mortgage for a term of thirty years with interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum; half-yearly instalments of principal and interest £6 16s. 10d. Costs of preparation and registration of the mortgage, amounting to 19s. 6d., are payable by the selector.

This section is part of the Bickerstaffe Settlement, four miles from Maungaturoto, where post-office, school, dairy factory, and saleyards are located. Access is by good metalled road from Maungaturoto. Land consists of easy hills, parts of which are ploughable. Soil is a clay loam resting on a sandstone formation; watered by springs. Subdivided into two paddocks. Some 174 acres are in fair pasture and 67 acres have reverted to fern.

In addition to improvements mentioned above the following improvements are included in the capital value: 34 chains subdivisional fencing and 174 acres clearing and surface sowing

Bay of Islands County.—Te Pua Settlement.

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

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

• Rental exemption as above is conditional on improvements to the value of £90 being effected annually during the exemption period.

Section 2s has access by way of side road from Kaikohe–Omapere Road, three miles from Kaikohe. Section 3s has access from the Kaikohe–Ohaeawai 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 cow-shed 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 and water-supply not included in the capital value are valued at £50, and must be paid for in cash or over a period of ten years by half-yearly instalments of £3 4s. 9d.