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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 31

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 20th April 1938.

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 District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o'clock a.m. on Monday, 30th May, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 1st June, 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 and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County.-Wharepapa Survey District.

SECTION 3, Block XIV : Area, 350 acres. Capital value, £100. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 ls. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £2.

Weighted with £130 for improvements, comprising two-roomed house in poor condition, road-boundary fencing, internal fencing, half-share in boundary-fencing, 35 acres cleared and in poor grass. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £30, the balance of £100 may be secured on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation over a period of ten years by means of half-yearly instalments of principal and interest combined, with interest at the rate ruling as at date of selection, subject to a rebate of 4 per cent. for payment of the instalments on or before fourteen days after the due dates thereof. The selector will require to meet the costs of preparation and registration of the mortgage.

A grazing property situated on the Wharepuhunga and Wairakei Roads, half a mile from Ngaroma Post-office and School and thirty-two miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and Saleyards ; access by metalled road from Te Awamutu. Section comprises undulating to steep and broken country of which about 220 acres has been felled and grassed and has now fully reverted, 35 acres is in worn-out pasture, the balance of 95 acres being in its natural state of standing bush and scrub. Soil is light loam resting on rhyolite and sandstone formation ; watered by running streams. Area is not considered suitable as a separate holding, and at present it is badly infected with ragwort which requires immediate attention.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/28810 ; D.O. O.R.P. 4278 and D.S. 1031.)

Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 2.30 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 23rd May, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 25th May, 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 and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.-Hunua Survey District.

SECTION 26, Block IX, and Section 14A, Block X : Area, 313 acres l rood 12.2 perches. Capital value, £614.* Deposit on deferred payments, £34 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £18 17s. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £12 5s. 7d.

• Capital value includes the sum of £148 for improvements belonging to the Crown.

Weighted with £1,077 for improvements, comprising dwelling and outbuildings, wool-shed, cow-byrne, shed, yards, 373 chains fencing (93 half-share boundary, 50 road, 230 subdivisional), plantations, felling, stumping and grassing.

This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £277, the balance may be secured by instalment mortgage to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand over a period of thirty-five years at 4½ per cent. interest reducible to 4¼ per cent. Half-yearly instalments consisting of principal and interest would be £23 3s. 6d. gross, reducible to £21 3s. 6d.

The property is situated on the Owhango-Hikimutu Road, two miles from Owhango Post-office, School, and Saleyards, three miles from Owhango Railway-station, and twelve miles from Piriaka Dairy Factory, the access being by metalled road from Owhango. The property is watered by creeks and springs and the soil is of a pumiceous loam and light loam nature resting on a formation of part clay and papa. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 1,900 ft. Of total area approximately 60 acres consist of undulating country capable of being ploughed, remainder being hilly to steep and broken with about 80 acres in shady country. Property is subdivided into ten paddocks and is suitable for grazing with limited dairying in its present condition. There is some ragwort and blackberry present. The present condition is 30 acres in good pasture, 243 acres felled and grassed, of which 100 acres have reverted, the balance of 40 acres being in its natural bush state. It is estimated that the present carrying-capacity would be 250 ewes, 75 dry sheep, 10 dairy cows, 25 steers and heifers, 2 draught horses and 1 hack. It is considered that when fully developed the property should carry 400 ewes, 100 dry sheep, 20 dairy cows, 60 steers and heifers, and 3 horses. An area of 60 acres is suitable for growing green crops.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

(H.O. 26/14826 ; D.O. I.F. 324,325.)

Reserve in Wellington Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders, marked on the outside "Tender," will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, State Fire Building, Wellington, up to noon on Tuesday, 24th May, 1938, for a lease of the under-mentioned reserve and the building thereon under the provisions of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928. Tenders may be made for—(a) The whole building, (b) the upstairs portion only, or (c) the downstairs portion only.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-CITY OF WELLINGTON.

PART Section 3, Harbour District, Block XI, Belmont Survey District : Area, approximately 9.4 perches.

This section, on which the old Kaiwarawara Post-office building is situated, has frontages to both the Main Hutt and Ngaio Roads.