Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2465

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Thursday, 28th January, 1937, 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 pass-books, 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Rotorua County.—Tarawera Survey District.

SECTION 6, Block II: Area, 1,322 acres 2 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £660. Deposit on deferred payments, £20: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £20 16s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £13 4s.

A grazing property situated on the Rotorua–Okareka Road, seven miles from Rotorua Post-office, School, and Railway-station, and twelve miles from the Ngongotaha Dairy Factory; access is by formed pumice road. Approximately one-third of the area is ploughable, the balance being hilly to broken. The land is wholly unimproved in fern and tutu.

(H.O. 8/1/26; D.O. O.R.P. 5463.)

THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Waikato County.—Whangamarino Parish.

Lot 2 of Allotment 440: Area, 694 acres. Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred payments, £10. Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 16s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5.

Suitable partly for grazing and partly for mixed-farming purposes. Situated on a side road two miles and three-quarters off the Te Kauwhata–Waerenga Main Road, three miles and three-quarters from Waerenga Post-office, and eight miles and three-quarters from Te Kauwhata Railway-station and Saleyards; cream is collected at a depot two miles from the property. Access is by means of one mile and a half of metalled road and one mile of partly-formed road. Land ranges from approximately 50 acres of long and narrow undrained swamp in raupo and rushes to easy, undulating, and hilly broken land in light fern and stunted scrub.

(H.O. 9/3132; D.O. 3/1688.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.
THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Otorohanga County.—Pirongia Survey District.

(Exempt from rental payments for five years.*)

SECTIONS 6 and 12, Block VI: Area, 419 acres 0 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £120; half-yearly rent, £2 8s. Weighted with £237 10s. for improvements, consisting of whare of three rooms, clearing and grassing, subdivisional fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £2 10s., the balance (£235) to remain on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, payable over a period of twenty years by means of quarterly instalments of principal and interest combined at the rate ruling as at date of selection, subject to a rebate of ½ per cent. for payment of the instalments on or before the fourteenth day after the due dates thereof.

A grazing property situated on Mangaiti Road, five miles from Puketotara Post-office, eleven miles from Pirongia School, and eighteen miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station and Dairy Factory; access by metalled road. Sections, which are hilly and broken, are situated high up on the slopes of Pirongia Mountain. Approximately 200 acres bush land felled and grassed, now reverted, balance in natural state of standing bush. A little ragwort is in evidence.

• After payment of the first half-year’s rent no rent will be charged for a period of five years provided that a sum equivalent to the concession granted is expended each year in effecting permanent improvements to the land.

(H.O. 26/11953; D.O. M.L. 3849.)

Ohinemuri County. — Ohinemuri Survey District. — Hauraki Mining District.

Section 73, Block XV: Area, 123 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £50; half-yearly rent, £1.

A grazing property situated on Waitete Valley Road approximately three miles from Waihi Post-office, Railway-station, and School; access by means of one mile of formed but unmetalled road. All hilly land, steep and broken in places, mainly under bracken fern, blackberry, and second growth, with patches of light bush. Ragwort requires attention. Not considered suitable as a separate holding.

NOTE.—This section 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.

(H.O. 22/1432/42; D.O. H.P.L. 457.)

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 15th December, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale for cash or on deferred payments by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, at 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, 16th February, 1937, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.
Waiapu County.—Mangaoporo Survey District.
(Town of Ruatoria Extension No. 2.)

SECTION 14, Block XVI: Area, 1 rood 25 perches. Upset price, £40.

Weighted with £5 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising half-share in four chains boundary-fencing and grassing.

The section is situated in the Ruatoria Township, eighty-three miles from Gisborne, close to post-office, store, school, dairy factory, &c. All flat land of good quality; suitable for a building-site.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 6/3/320; D.O. 8/45.)

Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 16th December, 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, Gisborne, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 10th February, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 12th February, 1937, 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 pass-books, 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.