Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 30th June, 1936.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is open for selection on optional tenures under the
Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the
District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to
noon on Tuesday, 21st July, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on
Wednesday, 22nd July, 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.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when
examined documentary evidence of their financial position,
such as bank passbooks, certificates, or letters of credit from
managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms,
or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial
assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should
state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply
guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of
the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant
is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a
deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken period
rent, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of
improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Ohura County.—Ohura Survey District.

SECTION 6, Block XI: Area, 694 acres. Capital value, £610.
Deposit on deferred payments, £30: Half-yearly instalment
on deferred payments, £18 17s. Renewable lease: Half-
yearly rent, £12 4s.

Loaded with £1,765 for improvements, comprising five-
roomed dwelling, two sheds, two sets yards and dip, fencing,
felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or by a cash
deposit of £100, leaving £650 on first mortgage to the State
Advances Corporation of New Zealand for a term of thirty
years, and £1,015 on second mortgage under the Discharged
Soldiers Settlement Act—term not exceeding thirty-six years
and a half.

The property, which is suitable for mixed farming, is
situated on the Kakahi Road, six miles from Roto Post-office
and School, eight miles and a half from Tokirima Railway-
station, and eight miles from Ohura Saleyards. Cream is
collected to within half a mile of section. Access road from
Ohura is now being metalled. Soil is a light to fairly good
loam on clay and sandstone ; watered by springs and creeks.
Approximately 100 acres are ploughable, the remainder being
undulating to hilly and broken country. Some 595 acres are
in good pasture, 90 acres is fair to rough feed, and 9 acres in
shelter bush. Property is subdivided into eight paddocks.

Immediately upon approval of application, the successful
applicant must pay costs of preparation and registration of
first and second mortgages, together with proportionate part
of insurance premium on buildings.

NOTE.-Possession will be given one month after date of
Taranaki Land Board's approval of an application. A
clearing-sale of stock on the area will be arranged within
that period.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(Files : H.O. 26/1103; D.O. O.R.P. 493.)

Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenure.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 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 July, 1936.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday,
the 29th July, 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.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.
SECTION 2, Block XVI : Area, 890 acres. Capital value, £220.
Deposit on deferred payments, £15: Half-yearly instalment on
deferred payments, £6 13s. 3d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly
rent, £4 4s.

Weighted with £150 for improvements, consisting of 50 acres
felling and grassing, 1 acre stumped, and 180 chains fencing.
This sum may be paid in cash or may be secured to the State
Advances Corporation of New Zealand on table mortgage for
a term of twenty years and providing for quarterly payments
of principal and interest.

This section is situated at the headwaters of the Mangamaire
Stream with a frontage to the Waimarino-Retaruke Road.
Access is from National Park Railway-station which is about
two miles distant by formed clay road. Approximately
250 acres have been felled and grassed, of which 200 acres
have reverted to second growth. The balance of the area is
in standing bush. About 60 acres are easy undulating, the
remainder being hilly and broken. The soil is of light quality
loam resting on sandstone and papa formation; permanently
watered by streams.

(Files : H.O. 22/3336 ; D.O. Misc. 1638.)

Waimarino County.—Manganui Survey District.

Section 27 and part Section 2, Block XVI : Area, 457 acres
1 rood 28·8 perches. Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred
payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments,
£7 19s. 3d. Renewable lease : Half-yearally rent, £5.

Weighted with £250 (to be paid in cash) for improvements,
comprising dwelling and outbuildings, fencing, plantations,
felling, grassing, and stumping.

This property is situated on the Makotuku Valley Road,
one mile from Horopito Post-office, Railway-station, and
School. It is suitable for mixed farming. The section com-
prises level to easy undulating land mostly ploughable when
cleared. Approximately 100 acres worn-out pasture, 10 acres
stumped, 80 acres swamp, and 3 acres in natural state. The
soil is of light quality loam resting on clay and volcanic forma-
tion; watered by streams.

(Files: H.O. 26/6009; D.O. L.P. 92.)

Any further information desired may be obtained from the
undersigned.

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 29th June, 1936.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands
will be offered for lease by public auction at this office
on Wednesday, 12th August, 1936, at 11 o'clock a.m., under
the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the
Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.
TOWN OF LIMEHILLS.

Section 11, Block XIX: Area, 2 roods. Upset annual
rental, 10s.

Weighted with £2 10s. (to be paid in cash) for fencing.
All in old pasture.

TOWN OF WINTON.

Section 12, Block XII: Area, 1 rood 3 perches. Upset
annual rental, £5 5s.

Weighted with £651 (to be paid in cash) for improvements,
comprising five-roomed wooden dwelling, garage, fencing, &c.
A good building-site conveniently situated.

Abstract of Terms and Conditions of Lease.

1. Possession will be given on date of sale.

2. Six months’ rent at the rate offered, and rent for the
   broken period, weighting for improvements, lease and regis-
   tration fees (£2 2s.), must be deposited on acceptance of bid.

3. Term of lease, twenty-one years, with perpetual right of
   renewal for further similar terms at rentals on fresh valuations
   under the provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

4. Rent payable half-yearly in advance.

5. Lessee to maintain in good substantial repair all build-
   ings, drains, and fences ; to keep clear all creeks, drains,
   ditches, and watercourses ; to trim all live hedges, and yield
   up all improvements in good repair and condition at the
   expiration of the lease.