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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 9th February, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section will be offered for sale for cash or on deferred payments by public auction at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 23rd March, 1938, at 11.30 o’clock a.m., under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND,
Eden County.—City of Auckland.

Lot 37 of Section 36 : Area, 12-05 perches. Upset price, £900. This section is situated at the corner of Airedale Street and Lynedoch Street, and is suitable for use as a business building-site.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

H.O. 9/3190 ; D.O. 3/337.)

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

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 9th February, 1938.

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, 14th March, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 16th March, 1938, 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 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 improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Mangonui County.—Opoe Survey District.

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

SECTION 36, Block VII : Area, 105 acres 2 roods 13 perches. Capital value, £160 ; Half-yearly rent, £3 4s.

• Rental exemption is conditional on improvements being effected to the value of £20 per annum during the concession period, in addition to the improvements ordinarily required in terms of the lease.

Weighted with £13 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising a half-share in 26 chains of boundary-fencing.

This section is situated on the Awanui—Waiharara Main Highway, thirteen miles from Kaitaia by metalled road ; six miles from the Waipapakauri Post-office. The whole area is undulating to hilly consolidated sand dune country in tea-tree, scrub, and bracken, with Native grasses running through. Poorly watered by swampy springs, but permanent water can be secured by boring.

NOTE.—It will be a special condition of allotment that any portion of the property on which stock are to be depastured must first be ring-fenced in order to prevent the stock damaging the marram-grass plantations nearby.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/1747 ; D.O. 17/1157.)

Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 9th February, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924 ; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 28th March, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 30th March, 1938, 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.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LANDS.
Hauraki Plains County.—Waihou Survey District.

SECTIONS 24, 25, and 44, Block IX : Area, 177 acres 0 roods 7 perches. Capital value £1,000. Deposit on deferred payments, £50 ; Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £30 17s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £20.

Weighted with £880 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising dwelling and outbuildings, detached outbuildings, cow-sheds, plantations, pig-yards, culverts, power line, fencing, grassing.

Sections 36, 37, 38, and 43, Block IX : Area, 201 acres 2 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £875. Deposit on deferred payments, £45 ; Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £26 19s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £17 10s.

Weighted with £1,250 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising dwelling and outbuildings, bachelor’s quarters, bathhouse, small shed, plantations and shelter, bridges, fencing and grassing.

These sections are dairying and grazing propositions situated on Ngarua Road, four miles and a quarter from Ngatea Post-office and School, four miles and three-quarters from Ngatea Saleyards, and sixteen miles from Paeroa Railway-station. Access is by means of good metalled road four miles and a quarter from Pokeno—Paeroa Highway at Ngatea ; cream is collected. Sections consist of low-lying peat country only partly drained ; watered by drains and streams. On sections 24, 25, and 44 approximately 70 acres has consolidated sufficiently to be suitable for dairying, and about 45 acres is now in medium pasture, balance of 132 acres is in swamp. Sections 36, 37, 38, and 43 comprise approximately 40 acres suitable for dairying, of which about 30 acres is in medium grass, the balance of 170 acres being swamp. The swamp country on both properties is only suitable for light grazing in its present state. Blackberry is in evidence on the sections and needs attention.

NOTE.—Improvements on Sections 36, 37, 38, and 43 consisting of cookhouse, flax-mill, and scutching shed are not included in the sale, and a condition of selection is that the owner of these improvements be given a period of one month from date of selection of the section in which to remove same.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/1450/398 ; D.O.M.L. 3536.)

Education Reserves in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Education Reserves will be offered for lease by public auction at the Jury Room, Supreme Court Building, Palmerston North, at 1.30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, 23rd March, 1938, under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.