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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Notice of Adoption under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1931.

Native Land Court Office,
Wanganui, 2nd April, 1937.

IT is hereby notified that the order of adoption as set out in the Schedule hereunder has been made by the Native Land Court under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1931.

P. H. DUDSON, Registrar.

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SCHEDULE.

ADOPTING parents: Raukura Ranginui and Te Rangi Kawhiua Niania.
Adopted child: Ngarongoa Ruma.

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CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 7th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 19th April, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 21st April, 1937, at 10.30 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.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Hobson County.—Kaihu Survey District.—Waimata Settlement.
SECTION 9S: Area, 323 acres 3 roods 15 perches. Capital value, £1,650*; half-yearly rent, £41 5s.

*Improvements included in capital value consist of felling and grassing, 389 chains of subdivisional and boundary fencing, 36 chains of draining, and 24 chains of internal road with four bridges.

Buildings on the property, which must be paid for separately, comprise a good, large dwelling and outbuildings, wool-shed, cow-byre, trap-shed and store-room, sheep-yards, valued at £620. This amount is payable over a term of thirty-six years and a half by half-yearly instalments of £18 6s. principal and interest combined.

Situated on the Awakino-Avoca Road nine miles from Dargaville Post-office and School, ten miles from Northern Wairoa Dairy Factory and Mangawhare Saleyards, and eighteen miles from Tangowahine Railway-station by metalled road. Easy to undulating country, subdivided into twelve paddocks; suitable for grazing with a little dairying. Soil is of fair quality clay resting on sandstone. Approximately 10 acres are in good pasture, 310 acres in worn-out pasture and fern, balance in natural state.

Full particulars can be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/14991; D.O. D.S. 346.)

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th April, 1937.

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, 17th May, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 19th May, 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, and lease fee.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Bay of Islands County.—Omapere Parish.

(Exempt from rent for five years.*)

ALLOTMENTS 41 and 45: Area, 266 acres 3 roods 25 perches. Capital value, £255; half-yearly rent, £5 2s.

This property is situated on Innis Road and is bounded on the east by the Okaihau-Kaikohe Railway. Access is from Okaihau Railway-station which is one mile and a quarter distant by metalled road. The whole area is flat to undulating land, unimproved, and in short manuka, fern, and hakea—practically all ploughable. There is about 15 acres of drainable swamp which has been extensively dug over for gum. The soil is a light loam with some iron-stone land; poorly watered by swamp and small stream. Elevation from 500 ft. to 600 ft. above sea-level. There is an old valueless shanty on the area.

*Exemption from rent for a period of five years will be granted only on condition the lessee effects improvements to double the value of the rent remitted during the exemption period in addition to the usual requirements under the Land Act.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 9/3151; D.O. O.R.P. 5813.)

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Land in Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 6th April, 1937.

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, Blenheim, on Wednesday, 19th May, 1937, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

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SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Borough of Picton.

Section 304: Area, 1 rood 3 perches. Upset price, £45.

The section is situated in Wellington Street about half a mile from post-office and within a mile of the railway-station and wharf. Sloping and hilly land which will need a fair amount of excavation to provide a suitable building-site.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 6/1/412; D.O. III/124.)

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STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Sales of Milling-timber.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 2nd April, 1937.

THE sales of the two lots of milling-timber advertised in the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th March, 1937, on page 553, have been postponed until 2 o’clock p.m. on Friday, the 16th April, 1937.

D. MACPHERSON, Conservator of Forests.