1054
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Town Land in the Gisborne Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 17th December, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 27th January, 1936, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

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SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Uawa County.—Town of Tolaga Bay.

SECTION 8, Block II: Area, 9 acres 0 roods 16 perches. Upset price, £132.

Weighted with the sum of £8 10s. (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising 34 chains fencing.

This property is situated in Parkinson Street, in the Township of Tolaga Bay, handy to post-office, store, and school. Flat land, mostly covered with gorse and blackberry. Soil of a fair nature resting on sandy formation.

Terms of sale and full particulars may be obtained at this office.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 22/1580.)

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Education Reserves in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at 2.30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 5th February, 1936, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, and amendments.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVES.

City of Palmerston North.

Sections 1028, 1030, and 1032: Area, .14 acres 0 roods 4 perches. Upset annual rental, £70.

Weighted with £165 for improvements, consisting of dwelling, cow-byre, shed, troughs, &c., 39¼ chains of boundary and internal fencing, and 13¼ acres cultivated. This sum is payable in cash or over a period of twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £6 8s. 9d. principal and interest.

The sections are situated on Cook Street and Park Road, one mile from West End School and Palmerston North Railway-station and two miles from Palmerston North Post-office. All flat land, the soil being of heavy loam on clay and river-deposit formation. There is a city water-supply. The property is subdivided into five small paddocks, and is suitable for dairying in a small way or market-gardening.

Waimarino County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

Part Section 2, Block IX: Area, 1,125 acres. Upset annual rental, £58 5s.

Weighted with £670 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of four rooms, wool-shed, and implement-shed, sheep and cattle yards, dip, and 674 chains of boundary and internal fencing. This sum is payable in cash or over a period of twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £26 2s. 7d. principal and interest.

This section is situated on the left bank of the Retaruke River, sixteen miles from Raurimu Railway-station by metalled and punioed road. Approximately 120 acres are ploughable, the balance being undulating to hilly and rough. With the exception of 2 acres of shelter bush, the whole area has been felled and sown, but about 728 acres has reverted to fern and second growth. Altitude is 1,300 ft. to 1,600 ft. above sea-level.

Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained from the undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 20/811 and 20/350.)

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Land in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 17th December, 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 District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 11th February, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 13th February, 1936, 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.

Sections 9 and 14, Block IX: Area, 275 acres 3 roods 34 perches. Capital value, £140; half-yearly rent, £2 16s.

The property is situated in the Inangahua Valley, about two miles and a half from Post-office and School, and nineteen miles from Dairy Factory. Access from Inangahua Junction, which is about two miles and a half distant, is by formed and metalled road. Flat and terrace land, bush-clad and unimproved. The soil is of fair quality but inclined to be clayey with sandstone and gravel formation. The forest is medium, comprising mixed birch with a few rimu and white-pine with a medium undergrowth of birch scrub, horopito, &c. (milling-timber has been cut out). The land rises to about 280 ft. above sea-level and is watered by creeks.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands

(L. and S. 26/12683.)

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Small Grazing-run in Canterbury Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 17th December, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land is open for lease on small grazing-run tenure under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Friday, 10th January, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 14th January, 1936, 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 the conclusion of the examination of applicants.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—PASTORAL LAND.

Oxford County.—Upper Ashley Survey District.

Section 36845, Blocks V, VI, VII, IX, X, and XI: Area, 15,300 acres. Capital value, £4,400*; half-yearly rent, £110.

Loaded with the sum of £1,722 for improvements, comprising a four-roomed dwelling with bathroom, detached storeroom with copper and tubs (water laid on), detached room, garage, and implement-shed, wool-shed, two huts and shed, yards, and sheep-dip, wells, plantation and shelter-belts, drains, also 3 miles 60 chains of boundary-fencing (new) and 9 miles 60 chains subdivisional and plantation fencing (new). This sum is payable in cash or by cash deposit of £222, £850 to be secured on first mortgage for a term of twenty-five years and a half at 5 per cent. to a discharged soldier, or twenty-four years and half, interest at 5½ per cent., to a civilian, and £650 as loading on lease to be repaid by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £25 7s. (principal and interest).

• Improvements valued at £345 and included in the capital value comprise a stone hut and six miles of boundary and subdivisional fencing.

This area comprises a run and homestead block situated on Snowdale Road, twenty miles from Oxford Post-office and Railway-station, and three miles from Snowdale School. Access is by a formed and metalled road from Oxford. The