2466
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

SCHEDULE.
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Uawa County.—Uawa Survey District.
(Native Land Settlement.)

SECTION 4, Block III: Area, 12 acres 1 rood 20 perches. Capital value, £42. Deposit on deferred payments, £2: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 6s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 1s.

Weighted with £8 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising 1¼ acres of grassing and 12 chains of fencing. Situated on the Gisborne—Tokomaru Bay Main Highway, nine miles from Tolaga Bay, and forty-three miles from Gisborne; school one mile away. Approximately 1¼ acres flat, undulating land in grass, balance broken country covered with scrub and gorse with a little manuka bush in the gullies. Soil fairly poor; watered by a stream. The fencing on the property comprises a half-share of the boundary with Mangatuna 1c 5b, 2c, and 1d 2h.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 7/743; D.O. 20/41.)

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 16th December, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, 12th January, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Thursday, 14th January, 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 fee, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Hawke’s Bay County.—Patoka Survey District.—Waihau Settlement.

(Exempt from payment of rent for three years.)

SECTION 2, Block XI: Area, 963 acres. Capital value, £3,370; half-yearly rent, £84 5s.

Weighted with £1,460 for improvements, comprising dwelling and outbuildings, wool-shed, cow-byre, harness-room, chaff-house, car-shed, yards, garden, about 572 chains of fencing, approximately 50 acres felled and burned, and 200 acres burned and surface sown.

This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £25, £775 may be paid by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £30 4s. 6d., and the remaining £660 may be secured by mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of thirty years at the rate of interest charged by the Corporation at the date of selection—quarterly payments to be provided for.

Situated on the Waihau Settlement Road, six miles from the Patoka Post-office and adjoining the Waihau School, thirty miles from Napier Railway-station, and thirty-five miles from Heretaunga Dairy Factory and Stortford Lodge Saleyards (Hastings). Access by good metalled road; watered by permanent streams and springs. The soil is pumiceous loam resting on clay formation. Altitude 850 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level. Easy hill country with ploughable areas about homestead. Subdivided into nine paddocks. Approximately 20 acres good pasture, about 500 acres in medium pasture, mostly native grasses, balance in manuka scrub. In its present state will carry about 400 ewes, 300 dry sheep, 15 dairy cows, and 40 breeding-cows with young stock. Pasture at present overgrown and requires grazing with cattle.

After payment of the requisite fees, half year’s rent, and rent and interest for broken period, if any, an exemption from payment of rent for three years and of the interest portion of the instalments on the State Advances Corporation’s mortgage of £660 over a period of two years will be granted conditional upon improvements to double the value of the remission being effected annually. Also, the principal repayments on the £775 will not commence until 1st January, 1939, but the interest payments will commence from the date of selection.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. R. BURNLEY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 32/130; D.O. R.L.S. 329.)

Village Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction for cash at the District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Building, Wellington, on Wednesday, 10th February, 1937, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—VILLAGE LAND.
Ekatahuna County.—Block I, Mangaone Survey District.—Nireaha Village Settlement.

SECTION 45: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £20.

Weighted with £4 14s. (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising felling, grassing, and 2¼ chains road fencing.

SECTION 46: Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £20.

Weighted with £6 7s. 6d. (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising felling, grassing, and 4½ chains boundary and road fencing.

These sections, which are adjoining, are situated one mile from the Nireaha Post-office and store, half a mile from the school, and on the opposite side of the road to the dairy factory. They are in grass and comprise flat land of good quality.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

(H.O. 9/3137; D.O. 14/57.)

Land in Nelson Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 16th December, 1936.

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, 9th February, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 11th 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 or 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 fee, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

NOTE.—These lands are 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.