2960
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

A grazing property, situated on the Woods Road, six miles and a half from Matiere Post-office and Railway-station, seven miles and a half from Matiere Saleyards, and three miles and a half from Waikaka School. Access from Matiere is by metalled road for three miles and a half, the remaining distance of three miles being clay road. About 100 acres in good pasture, 100 acres in worn-out pasture, the balance of 405 acres being steep birch country. Soil is a loam on clay and sandstone formation; watered by springs and streams. Property is subdivided into four paddocks, and would work in well with other land in the locality.

Ohura County.—Aria Survey District.

Subdivision 2 of Section 10, Block X, and Subdivision 2 of Section 9, Block XI: Area, 519 acres 2 roods 22·8 perches. Capital value, £255. Deposit on deferred payments, £15: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 16s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5 2s.

Loaded with £315 for improvements, comprising five-roomed dwelling (in need of repair), yards, two sheds, fencing, felling and grassing. This amount is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £40, leaving £275 on mortgage to the Mortgage Corporation of New Zealand for a term of thirty years. Interest to be charged on this mortgage at the current rate chargeable by the Corporation as at the date of selection. The successful applicant will require to pay the cost of preparation of the mortgage, amounting to £1 2s., and, in addition, a proportionate part of the insurance premium in respect of the dwelling.

A grazing property, situated on the Waikaka Road, eight miles from Matiere Post-office, Railway-station, and Saleyards, and five miles and a half from Waikaka School. Access from Matiere is six miles by metalled road and two miles by clay road. About 200 acres in fern and rough feed, the balance of 319 acres being in bush and scrub. Soil is a light loam on sandstone and clay; watered by springs and creeks. The property is subdivided into four paddocks and would work in well with other land in the locality.

Patea County.—Kapara Survey District.

Section 2, Block IV: Area, 382 acres. Capital value, £190. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £5 17s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 16s.

A grazing property, situated on the Puraroto Road, eleven miles from Ngamatapouri Post-office and School, forty miles from Waitotara Railway-station, and 50 miles from Waverley Saleyards. Access is from Waitotara by metalled road for thirty-seven miles and by clay road for three miles. The soil is a loam of inferior quality resting on sandstone and papa formation; watered by streams. The section is generally rough to broken, comprising 332 acres which were originally felled and grassed but have now reverted to fern and scrub, the remaining 50 acres being in natural state.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 26/21618 and 26/743.)

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Land in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 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, 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.

N.B.—This land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Inangahua County.—Inangahua Survey District.—Westland Mining District.

(National-endowment Land.)

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

SECTION 25, Block V: Area, 486 acres. Capital value, £260†; half-yearly rent, £5 4s.

The section is situated on the Reefton-Westport Main Highway, one mile and a half from Inangahua Junction School, half a mile from Inangahua Junction Post-office, Saleyards, and Railway-station, and twenty miles from Reefton Dairy Factory. Access by main highway. The property is suitable for grazing or dairying with four or five cows, 10 acres on road-frontage being flat, remainder hillside. The soil is good on flat land, fair to poor on hillside, resting on sandstone formation; watered by creeks. The property is not subdivided, and comprises 37 acres felled and grassed, 3 acres felled and stumped, 446 acres in natural state. Fern and blackberry are fairly bad.

• Rental exemption is conditional on improvements equivalent to twice the amount of the rental exemption being effected during exemption period.

† Improvements, which are included in the capital value, comprise an uncompleted cottage.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/1288.)

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Lands in Otago Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

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

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

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LANDS.

Maniatoto County.—Town of Ranfurly.

The sections are situated within easy distance of the Ranfurly Post-office and Railway-station. All the sections are good building-sites in one of the best localities in Ranfurly.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2974.)

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Settlement Lands in Southland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, 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, Invercargill, on Thursday, 14th November, 1935, at 10.30 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.