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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Mining Privilege to be struck off the Register.

Mining Registrar’s Office, Blenheim, 10th March, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of section 188 (4) of the Mining Act, 1926, the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereunder was this day struck off the Register.

A. F. BENT, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 18th March, 1936.

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 North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 20th April, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 22nd April, 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.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Whangarei County.—Tangihua Survey District.
(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.*)

Sections 7 and 10, Block VI: Area, 224 acres 1 rood 16 perches. Capital value, £95; half-yearly rent, £1 14s. Weighted with the sum of £49 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, consisting of 8 acres of good pasture, 20 chains of draining, and lean-to shed 15 ft. by 12 ft. with iron roof. Situated at Otaka, on new road off Whangarei-Maungakaramea Main Road. Access from Whangarei, ten miles distant, by metalled road.

Sections consist of poor gum land, about 8 acres being in good pasture, balance in tea-tree scrub with some gorse. Mostly undulating land, badly watered by soakage. Altitude 300 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon improvements to value of rent remitted being effected annually in addition to the requirements under the Land Act, 1924.

Any further particulars may be obtained from the under-signed.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(Files: H.O. 6/4/9; D.O. R.L. 1943.)

Small Grazing-run in Gisborne Land District for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 18th March, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be opened for lease on small grazing-run tenure by ballot under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 15th April, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally before the Land Board for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 17th April, 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.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.
Matakaoa County.—Matakaoa Survey District.
(National Endowment.)

Section 2, Block XI: Area, 3,276 acres. Annual rent, £92 16s.

Weighted with £2,500 for improvements, comprising six-roomed dwelling, four-stand wool-shed, cow-shed, shearers’ quarters, and other buildings, eleven miles of fencing, 1,800 acres felling, 1,300 acres grassing, yards, and water-supply. This amount may be paid in cash, or, after payment of a cash deposit of £200, the balance of £2,300 may remain on mortgage to the Mortgage Corporation of New Zealand for a term of thirty-five years with interest at the current rate chargeable as at date of selection.

A grazing proposition, situated on the Karakatuwhero River, about eight miles from Te Araroa Township, School, Post-office, and Store, and fourteen miles from Hick’s Bay Wharf. Access by ford across the river, which is sometimes unfordable. The section comprises easy to steep broken faces with flats along the river. General aspect is south. Some 1,800 acres have been cleared. The present state of the property is 1,300 acres grassed, 805 acres fern and scrub, and 1,171 acres in bush. Well watered. Altitude, 100 ft. to 2,500 ft.

Special Conditions.—The lease will be subject to a water-pipe line easement, 30 links wide, in favour of the Native Department.

The costs incidental to the mortgage to the Mortgage Corporation are payable by the successful applicant.

The buildings are insured for £1,295, and the premium will be apportioned to date of selection.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 8/2/36.)

Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 18th March, 1936.

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, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 15th April, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 17th April, 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.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Opotiki County.—Urutawa East Survey District.

Section 1, Block I: Area, 1,840 acres. Capital value, £460. Deposit on deferred payments, £30; Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £13 19s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £9 4s.