2680
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th September, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease 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 Friday, 18th October, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 23rd October, 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.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rodney County.—Pakiri Survey District.

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

SECTION 23, Block VIII: Area, 122 acres 0 roods 25 perches. Capital value, £125; half-yearly rent, £2 10s.

Loaded with £240 for improvements, comprising dwelling of three rooms and porch with tin chimney and stove and 600-gallon tank, 34½ chains road fencing (six wires, with totara posts and battens), half-share in 127 chains of boundary-fencing (six wires and totara posts), approximately 50 chains of ditching, and 30 acres ploughed. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £30 with balance on mortgage under the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1929.

Property is situated on the Wellsford–Mangawai metalled road, four miles and a half from Wellsford and one mile from Waiteitei School. Dairy Factory at Te Hana seven miles and a half distant. Land is hilly to undulating, all more or less ploughable, 30 acres have been ploughed and left to fallow, 10 acres partly drained wiwi swamp, balance is unimproved in short tea-tree and fern. Soil is clay resting on sandstone.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon improvements to the value of £25 being effected annually during the exemption period.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Whangarei County.—Purua Survey District.

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

Section 38, Block X: Area, 163 acres 1 rood. Capital value, £80; half-yearly rent, £1 12s.

Loaded with £430 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of three rooms and pantry, four-bail cow-byre and separator-room, 15 chains road fencing (five wires, kauri posts), 30 chains of boundary-fencing (four and five wires, kauri posts), 100 chains of subdivisional fencing (four and five wires, kauri posts), and 60 acres ploughed and grassed. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of not less than £30 with balance on mortgage under the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1929.

Land is situated on a side road off the Whangarei–Poroti Road, two miles from Poroti Post-office and School, twelve miles from Whangarei, and five miles from Maungatapere Dairy Factory. Soil is of pipe-clay resting on a clay formation. About 60 acres have been ploughed and grassed, balance being in tea-tree, fern, and wiwi—practically all ploughable. Poorly watered by swamp and soakage but water is obtainable by boring. Subdivided into seven paddocks.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon improvements to the value of £20 being effected annually during the exemption period.

Any further particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 34/17 and 443.)

Land in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th September, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for sale for cash or on deferred payments by public auction on the section at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 25th October, 1935, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—RURAL LAND.

Raglan County.—Whaingaroa Survey District.

SECTION 17, Block VI: Area, 9 acres 0 roods 7 perches. Upset price, £55.*

Section 18, Block VI: Area, 8 acres 0 roods 23 perches. Upset price, £17.

• Upset price of Section 17 includes improvements valued at £36, comprising clearing and grassing and 18 chains of road-boundary fencing.

These sections which are suitable for use in conjunction with other lands held in the locality, are situated in Mangati Village, approximately one mile from the Te Akau Post-office, having frontages to Karaka and Mangati Roads, both of which are metalled.

Section 17: Approximately 6 acres low, swampy land in raupo, balance undulating clay land in surface-sown grasses.

Section 18: Easy undulating to part steep land, all in worn-out pasture with small patches of tea-tree scrub and scattered brier; practically all ploughable.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 5422.)

Land in Nelson Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 14th September, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenure under the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 12th November, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 14th November, 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.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

(National Endowment.)

Waimea County.—Gordon Survey District.

SECTION 6, Block IV: Area, 893 acres. Capital value, £225. Deposit on deferred payments, £15: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £6 16s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 10s.

A grazing property, situated at the head of 88 Valley, about seven miles from Wakefield Township by five miles and a half good motor-road and one mile and a half unformed road over range of hills.

NOTE.—The successful applicant will be required to give an undertaking that the local body or the Government will not be called upon to incur expenditure on improving the access.

All steep hilly country, of which some 100 acres have been felled and grassed but are now overgrown with fern, balance bush. Soil poor quality resting on slaty formation; well watered. Altitude 1,000 ft. to 3,500 ft.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/3066.)

Settlement Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 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 District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Insurance Building, Wellington, on Wednesday, 2nd October, 1935, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.