Aug. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2397

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 27th August, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th September, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 18th September, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Bay of Islands County.—Kawakawa Survey District.

SECTION 13, Block VII: Area, 412 acres. Capital value, £150. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 11s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3.

Loaded with £190 for improvements, consisting of 140 chains of fencing in poor condition, 30 acres cleared and surface sown, and 20 acres ploughed and grassed. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £10 with the balance of £180 on mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent for a term of thirty years, interest 5½ per cent.; half-yearly instalments of principal and interest £6 3s. 1d. (Costs of the completion of this mortgage, amounting to 19s. 6d., must be paid by the successful applicant.)

The land is situated on the Opua–Waimate Road, eight miles from Opua by metalled road. School is at Oramahoe, four miles distant. The soil is of medium quality clay resting on a sandstone formation. About 60 acres is undulating and the balance is fairly steep and broken. Some 250 acres is in bush and scrub, 112 acres short manuka, fern, gorse, and hakea, and 50 acres (of which 20 acres have been ploughed) has been cleared and grassed. Property is only partly ring-fenced, and there are no subdivisional fences. Suitable for dairying a few cows and as a rough run for store cattle.

Any further particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. XI/12/202.)

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Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 27th August, 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 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 23rd September, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 26th September, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Wharepapa Survey District.

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

SECTION 1, Block VI, and SECTION 2, Block II: Area, 1,798 acres 3 roods 22 perches. Capital value, £750; half-yearly rent, £15.

Weighted with £570 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of six rooms, cow-shed and separator room, garage, clearing and grassing, approximately 260 chains of subdivisional fencing, half-share in 200 chains of boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash or the total amount may remain on mortgage to the State Advances Superintendent, payable over a period of thirty-six years and a half (interest rate 5½ per cent.) by instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £18 3s. 11d. each half-year. A remission of the interest charges under this mortgage will be granted for one year provided improvements to the value of the amount of the interest remitted are effected during the remission period.

A grazing property, situated on Kinzett’s Road, nineteen miles from Te Kawa Railway-station, twenty-three miles from Te Awamutu Dairy Factory and Saleyards. Access by metalled road twenty-one miles and a half, formed clay road one mile and a half. Approximately 350 to 400 acres easy undulating country, the balance hilly and broken, containing very small proportion ploughable land. About 100 acres fair pasture, 250 acres worn-out pasture, balance natural state of fern and manuka. Ragwort requires attention and rabbits are numerous.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon a sum equivalent to the concession granted being expended in effecting permanent improvements to the land.

For any further information required apply to the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/1450/708.)

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Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 28th August, 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 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 23rd September, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 26th September, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Pirongia Survey District.

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

SECTION 8, Block XI: Area, 94 acres. Capital value, £140; half-yearly rent, £2 16s.

Weighted with £510 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of five rooms, cow-shed, manure-shed, clearing and grassing, 55 chains road-boundary fencing, 21 chains boundary-fencing, 63 chains subdivisional fencing, half-share in approximately 42 chains boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £10, the balance—£500—to remain on instalment mortgage payable in the case of a New Zealand discharged soldier over a period of thirty-six years and a half by instalments of principal and interest (5 per cent.) combined totalling £15 per half-year; in the case of a civilian, over a period of thirty-four years and a half by instalments of principal and interest (5½ per cent.) combined totalling £16 5s. per half-year. A remission of the interest charges on this mortgage will be granted for two years provided improvements to the value of the amount of the remitted interest are effected annually during the remission period.

A dairying and grazing property, situated on Pirongia–Kawhia Road, nine miles from Pirongia Post-office and eighteen miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and Saleyards. Access by metalled road. Land easy and undulating in front, steep and broken along creek-banks. Approximately 58 acres in worn-out pasture, 10 acres in standing bush, 26 acres in fern and tutu. Ragwort and gorse require attention.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon a sum equivalent to the concession granted being expended each year in effecting permanent improvements to the land.

For any further information required apply to the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/27840.)