2054
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 14th October, 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 weighting for improvements, if not left on mortgage.

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SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Opotiki County.—Waiotahi Parish.

SECTION 432 : Area, 320 acres 0 roods 25 perches. Capital value, £160. Deposit on deferred payments, £10 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 17s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £3 4s.
Weighted with £290 for improvements, comprising two-roomed corrugated iron whare, approximately 100 chains road and subdivisional fencing, and half-share in approximately 240 chains boundary-fencing, and about 100 acres fair pasture. This sum is payable in cash or may be repaid over a period of fifteen years by thirty half-yearly instalments of £13 19s. 5d. payable in advance, and comprising principal and interest combined.
This property is situated in the Waiotahi Valley about twelve miles from Opotiki by good metalled road. It comprises generally fairly steep broken country, well watered. About 120 acres are still in standing bush. This property is not considered suitable as a separate farming unit.

(H.O. 26/18221 ; D.O. Misc. 963.)

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Wairoa County.—Tuahu Survey District.

SECTION 7, Block X : Area, 1,213 acres. Capital value, £600. Deposit on deferred payments, £30 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £18 10s. 6d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £12.
Weighted with £1,250 for improvements, comprising four-roomed dwelling, woolshed, two sheds, dip and yards, approximately 400 chains of fencing, and 900 acres (approximately) of felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash or may be secured on first mortgage to the State Advances Corporation for a term of thirty-five years with interest at the rate ruling as at date of selection. The instalments under this mortgage, comprising principal and interest are payable quarterly, and at the present rate of interest the instalments amount to £36 4s. 4d., reducible to £33 1s. 10d. for prompt payment. The costs of completion of the mortgage £6 1s. are payable by the successful applicant.
This is a grazing property situated in the Erepiti Valley. Access is from Wairoa which is about forty miles distant by good metalled road to within about five miles of the property, balance by good clay road. About 900 acres has been felled and grassed, balance area is in mixed bush, comprising principally beech. The section varies from easy to steep slopes of southerly aspect. The soil is of fair quality, well watered by streams. Altitude 1,300 ft. to 3,000 ft.

(H.O. XI/2/200 ; D.O. S.G.R. 231.)

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

H. L. PRIMROSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 14th September, 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, New Plymouth, up to noon on Tuesday, 25th October, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 26th October, 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, and lease fee.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Ohura County.—Rangi Survey District.

SECTIONS 2 and 3, Block II : Area, 138 acres 2 roods 27 perches. Capital value, £100. Deposit on deferred payments, £5 : Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £3 1s. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £2.
Weighted with £275 for improvements, comprising dwelling, sheds, approximately 260 chains fencing, and 20 acres cleared and grassed. This sum is payable in cash, or by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest of £10 14s. 6d. each over a period of twenty-one years.
A grazing property situated on the Te Kuiti – Taumarunui Main Highway, seven miles from Taumarunui, half a mile from Okahukura Post-office and Railway-station, and one mile and a half from Okahukura School. Access is by good metalled road. The soil is light loam on pumice formation ; well watered.
Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 9/680 ; D.O. O.R.P. 956 and 981.)

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Education Reserve in Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

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District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 14th September, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property will be offered for lease by public auction at the Court-house, Reefton, on Friday, 11th November, 1938, at 10 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, and the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.
A half-year’s rent at the rate offered, rent for broken period between date of auction and 31st December, 1938, valuation for fencing £3, and lease fee £2 2s., to be paid in cash on the fall of the hammer.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Inangahua County.—Town of Reefton.

SECTIONS 602, 603, 604, 605, 744, 745, 746, 747 : Area, 2 roods 16·8 perches. Upset annual rental, £4.
Weighted with £3 (payable in cash) for fencing.
The sections, which are flat, front Buller Road and Main Street, being about one-eighth of a mile from the Reefton School and half a mile from Reefton Post-office. Access streets are metalled. The sections are suitable for building purposes and are served by the town water-supply.
The reserve is described for the general information of intending bidders, who are recommended, nevertheless, to make a personal inspection, as the Department is not responsible for the absolute accuracy of any description.
Form of lease may be perused and full particulars obtained at this office.

P. R. WILKINSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 20/990 ; D.O. X/55 ; E.R. 89 and 117.)