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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Officiating Ministers for 1938.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st June, 1938.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908,
the following names of officiating ministers within the
meaning of the said Act are published for general infor-
mation :—

Brethren.
Mr. Reginald Charles Grainger.

British Israel Assembly.
Mr. Burford Henry Noel Rawlings.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

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CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 22nd June, 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
Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to
11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 25th July, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland,
on Wednesday, 27th July, 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 deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County.—Ngongotaha Survey District (Ngakuru Block).

SECTION 16, Block II: Area, 163 acres 2 roods. Capital
value, £1,615*; half-yearly rent, £40 7s. 6d.

Weighted with £725 for improvements, comprising dwelling,
cow-shed, calf-bails, piggeries, and water-supply. This sum
is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £75, the
balance (£650) may be paid over a period of thirty-six years
and one-half by half-yearly instalments of principal and
interest combined amounting to £19 10s.

*Improvements included in capital value: Road-boundary
fencing, internal fencing, boundary-fencing, 140 acres
permanent pasture, plantation, and shelter-belts.

The Ngakuru Block is situated approximately eighteen
miles south of Rotorua, access being by formed and metalled
road from Rotorua or Ngongotaha. Land therein is generally
undulating to hilly country broken by stream valleys; soil
comprises pumice loam resting on pumice formation. This
is a dairying section capable of carrying a fair sized herd in
its present condition.

NOTE.—The selector will be given the option of taking
over the sharemilking plant and equipment on the section
at valuation.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

(1) Water-rights over this section are reserved to the
occupier of Section 22, Block I, Ngongotaha Survey District,
adjoining.

(2) The lessee must maintain existing pastures and any
further pastures laid down by adequate top-dressing and
stock control to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of
Crown Lands, Auckland. The lessee will require to give
a first order on his cream cheques as a guarantee that the
top-dressing will be applied.

(3) The lessee must effectively eradicate and control any
growth or encroachment of ragwort on the section and road
frontages thereto.

(4) Fences protecting shelter-belts must be maintained in
a stock-proof condition by the lessee.

Breaches of Conditions 2, 3, and 4 will warrant forfeiture
of the lease irrespective of the fact that in other respects
the lessee has conformed with the terms of the lease.

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 34/1/3; D.O. 2/43D.)

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Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st June, 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, 25th July, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday,
27th July, 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
manager 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 weighting for improvements.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Ohakune Borough.—Karioi Survey District.

SECTIONS 54 and 58, Block V: Area, 12 acres. Capital
value, £25. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, 13s. Renewable lease:
Half-yearly rent, 10s.

Weighted with £92 14s. (payable in cash) for improvements,
comprising 17 chains of road fencing, half-share in 32 chains
of boundary-fencing, 2 chains of subdivisional fencing,
stumping, clearing, felling and burning.

These sections are situated on the Tawhero Road, one mile
and a half from Ohakune Post-office, one mile and a quarter
from Ohakune School and Rochfort Railway-station, three
miles from the Ohakune Dairy Factory, and ten miles
from the Raetihi Saleyards; with the exception of the last
20 chains consisting of formed clay road, the access is by
good metalled road from Ohakune.

The property is watered by streams and springs and the
soil is of a chocolate loam resting on an agglomerate formation.
The sections are practically level, but are somewhat swampy
as they are intersected by two creeks. The altitude is approxi-
mately 1,900 ft. The land is suitable for residential purposes
or for cropping, or market gardening on a small scale, and at
the present time 4¾ acres are in worn-out pasture, whilst the
balance of the area consists of bush land felled and stumped.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

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

(H.O. XI/4/483; D.O. O.R.P. 1305.)