July 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1735

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 27th July, 1937.

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 North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th August, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 18th August, 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 on account of improvement loading.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitemata County.—Waitemata Survey District.—Birdwood Block.

Section 8, Block XIII: Area, 78 acres 2 roods 34 perches. Capital value, £480. Deposit on deferred payments, £20: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £14 19s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £12.

Weighted with £450 for improvements, consisting of dwelling of three rooms, washhouse, cow-byre, and separator-room, storeroom, pig styes and yards, clearing, grassing, fencing, draining, shelter-belts, and bridge. This sum is payable in cash or by a deposit of £50 and the balance (£400) over twenty years by instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £16 1s. per half-year.

A dairying property situated on Birdwood Road, two miles and a quarter from Swanson Railway-station and Post-office by metalled road. The school is half a mile distant. Undulating land, practically all ploughable. Approximately 8 acres in good pasture, 2 acres new grass, 27 acres rough feed, 4 acres fallow, 37 acres in natural state of scrub. Subdivided into seven paddocks. The soil is of clay nature on sandstone; watered by swampy streams.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 34/145 ; D.O. M.L. 2203.)

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Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 27th July, 1937.

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 Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 30th August, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 1st September, 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. If the improvement loading is not paid in cash the selector will require to pay costs for the preparation and registration of the mortgage to the State Advances Corporation.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.—Orahiri Survey District.

Sections 5 and 25, Block VII: Area, 342 acres 0 roods 4 perches. Capital value, £210. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £6 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 4s.

Weighted with £200 for improvements, comprising dwelling of four rooms, cow-shed, outbuilding (materials only), clearing and grassing (reverted), road-boundary fencing, internal fencing, and half-share in boundary-fencing. This sum is payable in cash or the whole amount may remain on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation payable over a period of twenty-five years by means of quarterly instalments of principal and interest combined with interest at rate ruling as at date of selection, subject to a rebate of ½ per cent. for payment of the instalments on or before fourteen days after the due dates thereof.

A mixed-farming property situated on the Waitomo Valley Road three miles from Otorohanga Railway-station, Post-office, School, and Dairy Factory; access by good metalled road. The land varies from river flats, including an area of undrained swamp, to hilly and broken country at the back. About 70 acres of river flats has been grassed but has reverted. Ragwort, gorse, and blackberry requires urgent attention.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/1450/690 ; D.O. M.L. 3886.)

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Land in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 27th July, 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 District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 6th September, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, 8th September, 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 fee, and amount of improvement loading.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Clutha County.—Tautuku Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for four years.*)

Sections 11 and 12, Block XII: Area, 301 acres 0 roods 19 perches. Capital value, £150. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 11s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3.

Weighted with £35 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising dwelling and cow-byre.

This property is situated on the Greenfield Road approximately one mile and a half from its junction with the Catlins-Waikawa Road, two miles from Chaslands School and Post-office, and thirteen miles from Maclennan Railway-station. The sections are hilly and broken, with a south-west aspect. The soil is a light loam on a clay bottom; watered by creeks and springs. Approximately 100 acres has been felled and grassed, but is now reverting to second growth, and the grass is worn out. Ragwort and blackberry in evidence.

• After payment of the required deposit, four years’ exemption from the payment of rent will be granted subject to the condition that the selector effects improvements to the value of £20 annually during the exemption period in addition to the improvements required in terms of the Land Act, 1924. Such improvements to consist of clearing second-growth, and grassing.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

F. H. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/16692 ; D.O. O.R.P. 424 and R.L. 53.)