Oct. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2959

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Settlement Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 23rd October, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is 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 District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to noon on Wednesday, 13th November, 1935.

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

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—SETTLEMENT LAND.

Hawke’s Bay County.—Te Mata Settlement.

SECTION 10S: Area, 7 acres 1 rood 2 perches. Capital value, £120; half-yearly rent, £3.

Weighted with £480 for improvements, consisting of four-roomed dwelling, packing-shed, water-supply, and fencing. This sum may be paid in cash or by a deposit of £10, the balance being secured by an instalment mortgage over a term of twenty years, interest 5 per cent. to a returned soldier, 5½ per cent. to all others.

Situated on the Arataki Road, three-quarters of a mile from Havelock North Post-office and School, and three miles from the Hastings Railway-station. Until recently this area was worked as an orchard, but the trees have now been pulled out. The soil is of medium quality resting on iron-pan formation. Town water-supply.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/25512.)

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Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 23rd October, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Friday, 29th November, 1935, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Wairoa County.—Town of Clyde.

Section 547: Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £25.

Sections 483 and 627: Area, 2 roods. Upset price, £50.

Section 547 is situated in Kopu Road, about three-quarters of a mile from the Wairoa Post-office, and is a good, flat section, well grassed.

Sections 483 and 627 are situated about half a mile from Wairoa Post-office, access being by the Kopu Road. Both are good level sections in grass and fenced on all sides by a post-and-wire fence except on the side adjoining Sections 628 and 482, that side being unfenced.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/1098/780.)

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Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 23rd October, 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, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 25th November, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 27th 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.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

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

SECTION 23, Block XI: Area, 181 acres. Capital value, £380†; half-yearly rent, £7 12s.

Weighted with £285 for improvements, comprising dwelling, cow-shed, approximately 240 chains fencing, and 70 acres grassing. This amount may be paid in cash or the whole amount may remain on mortgage to the Mortgage Corporation of New Zealand for a term of thirty years with interest at the current rate ruling at the time of selection. A remission of the interest payable under the mortgage will be allowed for two years provided additional improvements to the value of the interest remitted are effected annually. Costs, amounting to £1 2s., for the completion of the mortgage to the Corporation must be paid immediately an application is declared successful.

A mixed-farming property situated on the Te Kuiti–Taumarunui Road, half a mile from Mapiu Post-office and School, five miles from Mokauiti Saleyards, and thirteen miles from Waimiha Railway-station. Access is by metalled road from Waimiha.

The property generally comprises easy to hilly country, but contains sufficient ploughable land for cropping purposes. It consists of approximately 70 acres fair pasture, 99 acres felled and grassed, but now reverted, and 12 acres bush.

The soil is loam resting on part clay and sandstone formation, and the section, which is watered by streams, is subdivided into six paddocks. Ragwort is spreading.

• After payment of lease fee, first half-year’s rent and broken period rent (if any), an exemption from the payment of rent for two years will be allowed provided improvements to the value of £50 are effected annually during the exemption period.

† Capital value includes the sum of £200, being part valuation for the before-mentioned improvements.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. XI/3/268.)

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Lands in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 23rd October, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on optional tenure 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, 25th November, 1935.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 27th 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.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LANDS.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

SECTION 8, Block X, Subdivision 1 of Section 10, Block X, and Subdivision 1 of Section 9, Block XI: Area, 605 acres 2 roods 4·7 perches. Capital value, £230. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 3s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 12s. Loaded with £430 for improvements, comprising iron whare, fencing, felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or may be secured by an instalment mortgage, term twenty years, half-yearly instalment £17 2s. 7d., to a discharged soldier purchaser, or £17 17s. 4d. to other purchasers.