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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 12th June, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to noon on Monday, 24th June, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Tuesday, 25th June, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Ranginui Survey District.

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

SECTION 4, Block II: Area, 679 acres. Capital value, £340; half-yearly rent, £6 16s.

Weighted with £595 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of five rooms and bathroom, sheep-dip, clearing and grassing, 30 chains of road fencing, 220 chains of subdivisional fencing, half-share in 140 chains of boundary-fencing. This sum is payable either in cash or by a deposit of £50 and the balance of £545 over a period of twenty years by forty half-yearly instalments of £22 12s. 10d.; interest rate, 5½ per cent.

A grazing property, situated on the Wharepuhanga Road, four miles from Ngaroma Post-office and School, thirty-four miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station and Dairy Factory, thirty-one miles being metalled road, balance formed clay road. Undulating to hilly and broken land of which approximately 400 acres has been grassed (rapidly reverting to second growth), the balance in natural state of standing bush. Ragwort is prevalent and requires attention.

• The exemption from rent is conditional upon an amount equivalent to the concession granted being expended each year in effecting permanent improvements to the land.

For any further information required apply to—

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/9432.)

Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 11th June, 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 22nd July, 1935.

The land 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 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Rangi Survey District.

SECTION 8, Block I: Area, 367 acres 2 roods 23 perches. Capital value, £395. Deposit on deferred payments, £20: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £12 3s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 18s.

Weighted with £953 for improvements, comprising four-roomed dwelling, wool-shed and yards, cow-byre, shed, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by cash deposit of £53, the balance of £900 to remain on instalment mortgage, term thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £27 to a discharged soldier selector, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £29 5s. to other purchasers.

A grazing property on which a few head of dairy stock also could be run. Situated on the Matiere–Okahukura Road, about two miles from Tuhua Post-office, School, and Railway-station, and fourteen miles from Taumarunui Saleyards. Access by metalled road from Taumarunui. Undulating to hilly and steep land, about 50 acres ploughable. Loam soil on clay and papa; watered by streams. Approximately 130 acres in bush, balance felled and grassed. Subdivided into nine paddocks.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Tangitu Survey District.

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

SECTION 9, Block XI: Area, 353 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £260; half-yearly rent, £5 4s.

Loaded with £600 for improvements, comprising two-roomed dwelling, cow-shed, yards, and separator room, whare, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or may be secured by instalment mortgage, term thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £18 to a discharged soldier purchaser, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £19 10s. to other purchasers.

• After payment of lease fee, first half-year’s rent, and rent for broken period (if any), an exemption from payment of rent and of interest on the loading will be granted for one year conditional upon improvements to the value of £50 being effected within that period, and upon the property being stocked to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

A sheep- and cattle-grazing property, on which a small number of cows could also be milked. Situated on the Taumarunui–Okahukura Road, half a mile from Mahirakau Post-office, one mile from Tuhua School, and one mile and a half from Tuhua Railway-station. Cream is collected from the property for delivery to the dairy factory at Matiere, six miles distant, where saleyards are also situated. Light loam soil on clay and sandstone formation; watered by springs and small stream. About 70 acres ploughable, balance hilly to fairly steep, 30 acres in good pasture, 73 acres in worn-out pasture, 150 acres felled and grassed land, now deteriorated, the balance of 100 acres being in bush.

Taumarunui County.—Piopiotea West Survey District.

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

Part Section 12† and Section 13, Block I: Area, 515 acres 0 roods 32 perches. Capital value, £515; half-yearly rent, £10 6s.

Weighted with £625 for improvements, comprising four-roomed dwelling, shed, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £25 and the balance of £600 secured by instalment mortgage, term thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £18 to a discharged soldier selector, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £19 10s. to other selectors.

• After payment of rent for first half year and broken period an exemption from payment of rent for three years will be granted provided 40 chains of first-class boundary-fencing are erected annually during the exemption period.

† National endowment.

A sheep- and cattle-grazing property, situated on the Pongahuru Road, four miles from Taumarunui Post-office, School, Railway-station, and Saleyards. Light loam soil resting on clay formation; watered by springs and streams. Hilly to steep land, approximately 20 acres ploughable when stumped and cleared, 100 acres in good pasture, 158 acres in worn-out pasture, the balance (257 acres) being in native bush.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Whangamomona County.—Pouatu Survey District.

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

Part Section 14†, Block VII: Area, 435 acres 2 roods 1·4 perches. Capital value, £165; half-yearly rent, £3 6s.

Loaded with £605 for improvements, comprising dwelling, shed, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £5 and the balance of £600 secured by instalment mortgage, term thirty-six years and a half, half-yearly instalment £18 to a discharged soldier, or thirty-four years and a half, half-yearly instalment £19 10s. to other purchasers.

• After payment of rent for first half year and broken period, if any, a remission of rent and of interest under the mortgage loading will be granted for one year provided improvements to the value of £50 are effected during that period.

† National endowment.