Mar. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 519

Weighted with £600 for improvements, comprising old dwelling (bad repair), 30 ft. by 30 ft., wool-shed (in poor order), 500 chains fencing, and 500 acres worn-out pasture. This sum may be paid in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £75, the balance (£525) may remain on a ten-year mortgage with interest at 4 per cent. All costs in connection with the preparation and registration of the mortgage to be paid by the successful applicant before being admitted into possession.

A grazing proposition, on the Gisborne-Motu-Opotiki Road, nine miles distant from Motu Township, School, Post-office, and Store, and twelve miles from Motuhora Railway-station and Saleyards. The area comprises steep, broken country with a poor aspect and intersected by a deep gorge. About 640 acres in standing bush (too steep to fall), 700 acres of second growth, and 500 acres of inferior grass. The property suffers from lack of water in the summer.

Any further particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(Files: H.O. 22/1450/242; D.O. O.R.P. 270.)

Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

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

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

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Patea County.—Opaku Survey District.

SECTION 4, Block IV: Area, 932 acres 0 roods 26 perches. Capital value, £235. Deposit on deferred payments, £15: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 3s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 14s.

Weighted with £300 for improvements, comprising whare, sheep-yards, approximately 80 chains fencing, and 500 acres felled and burned (mostly in fern). This amount may be paid in cash or, after payment of a deposit of £80, the balance (£220) may be secured on private mortgage for a term of ten years with interest at the rate of 4½ per cent. per annum (lower rate) and with annual payments of £10 in reduction of principal.

A sheep- and cattle-grazing property, situated on the Opaku Road, about thirty miles from Waverley Post-office, School, Railway-station, and Dairy Factory. Access from Waverley is by seven miles metalled and twenty-three miles clay road. The property contains about 30 acres flat land, the balance being hilly sheep-country. It comprises approximately 200 acres pasture (now deteriorating), 300 acres in fern, &c., and 432 acres in natural state. The soil is fair quality loam resting on papa and sandstone formation, and the section, which is watered by streams, is subdivided into three paddocks.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(Files: H.O. 31/625; D.O. O.R.P. 592.)

Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenure.

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

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, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 27th April, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 29th 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Masterton County.—Rewa Survey District.

(National Endowment.)

SECTION 1, Block XIII: Area, 1,265 acres. Capital value, £2,530. Deposit on deferred payments, £125: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments: £78 3s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £50 12s.

Weighted with £1,995 for improvements, consisting of dwelling, stable, yards, cow-byre, implement-shed, 220 chains road fencing, and 260 chains of boundary-fencing, felling and grassing, plantations and shelter-belts. Of this sum £100 must be paid in cash, and repayment of £400 over a period of twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £15 12s. will be provided for in the lease or license. The balance may be secured on table mortgage, term fifteen years with interest at 4 per cent. per annum. In the event of the successful applicant subsequently transferring the lease, the whole of the mortgage moneys may be called up.

A grazing property, subdivided into seven paddocks, situated on the Masterton-Stronvar Road, three miles from Ngahape School, thirty miles from Masterton Post-office and Saleyards, and thirty-one miles from Masterton Railway-station and Dairy Factory. Access is from Masterton, which is thirty miles distant. by good metalled road. Approximately 400 acres good rubble-rock country, balance easy hills but broken with gullies. About 400 acres in good pasture, 765 acres in worn-out pasture, and 100 acres in natural state. The soil is of a clayey nature resting on rock and poor papa formation; watered by streams, inclined to dry up but leaving three water-holes.

(Files: H.O. 8/4/43; D.O. S.G.R. 218.)

Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.

Section 26, Block XVI: Area, 92 acres 0 roods 2 perches. Capital value, £90. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £2 15s. 3d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 16s.

Weighted with £79 for improvements, consisting of two-roomed whare with iron roof and chimney, 20 acres felled and grassed, 2 acres stumped, and 8 chains of fencing. This sum is payable either in cash or by a deposit of £9 and the balance over a period of ten years by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest amounting to £4 10s. 8d.

Situated one mile and a half from Horopito Railway-station by metalled road for one mile, thence unformed road for half a mile. Level to easy undulating land of poor quality, the soil being of light volcanic mixture on clay formation; permanently watered. Approximately 20 acres have been felled and grassed, balance is in milled bush. Altitude, 2,100 ft. above sea-level.

(Files: H.O. 22/4156; D.O. Misc. 1630.)

Any further information desired may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICES.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Hokitika, 11th March, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at the office of the State Forest Service, Hokitika, on Friday, the 17th day of April, 1936.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL the milling-timber on that piece of land containing 167 acres, situated in Block III, Mawheranui Survey District, Provisional State Forest Reserve 1730, about five miles from Ngahere Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 147,003, or in board feet 939,690, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £896.

Time for removal: Four years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for £100, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in ten equal quarterly instalments, the first falling due three months after the date of sale.