APRIL 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1039

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in North Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale for cash by public auction at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Government Buildings, Auckland, at 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, 2nd June, 1937, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND. Bay of Islands County.—Kerikeri Survey District. SECTION 20, Block VIII : Area, 6 acres 2 roods 18 perches. Upset price, £20.

This section, which is situated at the mouth of the Kerikeri River, comprises a poor piece of flat and easy sloping land covered in gorse, manuka, and carrying a certain amount of rough grazing. Suitable only to an adjoining owner, or as a residential area for a retired person.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. (H.O. 9/3169 ; D.O. M.L. 1579.)

Education Reserve in North Auckland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 20th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned education reserve will be offered for lease by public auction at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, at 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, 2nd June, 1937, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EDUCATION RESERVE. Rodney County.—Oruawharo Parish. LOTS 1 and 2 of Allotment 188 : Area, 221 acres 1 rood 17 perches. Upset rental, £8 per annum.

Weighted with the sum of £30 for improvements, comprising 117 chains of road and boundary fencing (in poor condition). This sum is payable in cash or by a cash deposit of £15, balance in twelve months together with interest at 5 per cent.

These lots are situated on a side road from the main Te Hana Road and are one and one-quarter miles from Te Hana Railway-station by metalled road. Approximately one-half is easy undulating land, balance being steep to broken, but about 80 per cent. is ploughable. Whole area is in fern and manuka. Soil of fair to poor quality clay; well watered by Te Hana River and springs. Altitude 100 ft. to 250 ft. above sea-level.

Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained at the office of the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. (H.O. 20/630 ; D.O. E.R. 1562.)

Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, 20th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection, and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to ll a.m. on Monday, 24th May, 1937.

The land described in the First Schedule may, at the option of the applicants, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease. The land described in the Second Schedule may be selected on renewable lease only.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 26th 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, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Wharepapa Survey District.

LOT 2 of Section 1, Block VIII : Area, 159 acres (approximately). Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred payments, £10 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 16s. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £400 for improvements, comprising dwelling, cow-shed, implement-shed, clearing and grassing, internal fencing, road-boundary fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £5 the balance of £395 may remain on mortgage to the Lands and Survey Department payable in the case of a New Zealand discharged soldier over a period of 25½ years by instalments of principal and interest (5 per cent.) combined amounting to £13 16s. 6d. each half-year, in the case of a civilian over a period of 24½ years by instalments of principal and interest (5½ per cent.) combined amounting to £14 16s. 3d. each half-year.

At present a grazing property, but capable of being developed into a mixed-farming proposition. Situated on Mangare Road three miles from Arohena School and thirty-two miles from Te Awamutu Post-office, Railway-station, and Dairy Factory; access by good metalled road. Mainly easy undulating country, practically all ploughable. Approximately 76 acres in worn-out pasture (ragwort infested and reverting to fern and backberry), balance in natural state of fern and tutu.

NOTE.—Area subject to amendment upon completion of survey.

(H.O. 26/26582; D.O. O.R.P. 5589.)

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Rotorua Survey District.

Section 7, Block IX : Area, 65 acres 1 rood 5 perches. Capital value, £20. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, 9s. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, 8s.

Weighted with £10 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising clearing and grassing and fencing.

This property is suitable as a grazing run-off in conjunction with other land held in the locality. Situated on the Cambridge—Rotorua Main Highway, four miles from Mamaku Railway-station and Post-office and eleven miles from the Ngongotaha Dairy Factory; access by bitumen road. Level to gently undulating country; unwatered except for swampy surface water. Approximately 25 acres felled and grassed but now reverted, balance in natural state of standing bush. Ragwort and blackberry require attention.

NOTE.—The selector of the section must not fell and remove any standing timber other than that which is required for fencing purposes in connection with the property without consent of the Land Board first being obtained.

(H.O. 9/3125; D.O. T.S. 390.)

Waitomo County.—Orahiri Survey District.

Section 7, Block IX: Area, 572 acres. Capital value, £285. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £8 18s. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £5 14s.

Weighted with £138 for improvements, comprising a cottage, wool - shed, yards, subdivisional fencing, road-boundary fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £58, the balance of £80 may remain on mortgage to the Public Trustee payable over a period of twenty years by means of instalments of principal and interest (4½ per cent.) combined totalling £3 ls. 1d. each half-year.