2264

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 77

Section 9: Undulating to hilly land in hakes, manuka, and gorse. About 90 per cent. is ploughable. Approximately 8 acres have been ploughed but now reverted to second growth. Section has a southerly aspect. Watered by springs and swampy streams.

Section 10: Undulating to hilly land in hakes, manuka, and patches of gorse. About 90 per cent. ploughable. Some 43 acres has been ploughed but now reverted to scrub. Section has for the most part a good aspect and is well sheltered. Watered by springs and swampy streams. Altitude 250 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level.

Sections 4, 12, and part 11: Undulating to hilly land in rough feed, hakes, manuka, and patches of gorse. About 90 per cent. ploughable. Some 30 acres has been grassed, but now, with the exception of 7 acres worn-out pasture and gorse mixed, has reverted to scrub. Watered by springs and swampy streams. Altitude 250 ft. to 350 ft. above sea-level.

(H.O. 5/92; D.O. 8/100.)

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Hokianga County.—Punakitere Survey District.

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

Sections 8 and 9, Block XV: Area, 759 acres 1 rood 14 perches. Capital value, £550; half-yearly rent, £11.

*Rental exemption is conditional on improvements to the value of £50 being effected annually during the concession period in addition to the usual requirements under the Land Act.

Weighted with £1,095 for improvements, comprising 200 acres fair danthonia, 200 acres poor danthonia, dwelling, wool-shed, 380 chains subdivisional fence, 200 chains boundary-fence, and 40 chains road-fence. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £95, the balance (£1,000) may be repaid over thirty-six years and a half by instalments of principal and interest combined amounting to £30 per half-year.

This property is situated on Gammon’s Road, fourteen miles from Kaikohe Railway-station and Post-office by metalled road, one mile and a half from Valley School, and one mile from the cream-collection stand. Easy rising to fairly steep and broken country, originally under heavy bush. Practically the whole area has been cleared and grassed, but portion is reverting. It is subdivided into six paddocks, and is well watered by permanent streams. Suitable for a rough run.

(H.O. 26/778; D.O. D.S. 68.)

Bay of Islands County.—Hukerenui Survey District.

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

Sections 6, 7, and 22, Block II: Area, 356 acres 3 roods 35 perches. Capital value, £270; half-yearly rent, £5 8s.

*Rental exemption is conditional on phosphatic manure to the value of not less than £25 being applied to pastures annually during the concession period.

Weighted with £650 for improvements, comprising 100 acres felled and in danthonia pasture, 220 acres felled, burned, and grassed, but reverted, five-roomed dwelling, 200 chains road-fence, 124 chains boundary-fence, and 50 chains subdivision-fence. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £30, the balance will be paid over a period of twenty-five years and a half by half-yearly instalments of £21 14s.

The property is situated on the Ruapekapeka-Tapuhi Road, one mile from Tapuhi School and two miles from Tapuhi Post-office. Access is from Hukerenui Railway-station, 7 miles distant by metalled road. Approximately one-third the country is easy country, the balance being steep and broken by gullies. Some 25 acres bush, 100 acres fairly clean danthonia feed, balance manuka, very heavy fern, and blackberry, carrying some rough feed. Watered by permanent streams. Property is subdivided into seven paddocks and is suitable for a run-off for cattle by an adjacent owner.

(H.O. 26/17037; D.O. R.L.R. 142.)

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Taranaki Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 18th October, 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 District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 21st November, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, 23rd November, 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.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Egmont County.—Cape Survey District.

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

Section 21, Block XIII: Area, 201 acres 0 roods 6 perches. Capital value, £450; half-yearly rent, £9.

*After payment of the prescribed deposit an exemption from payment of rent will be allowed for five years provided improvements to the value of £25 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £102 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising whare, 117 chains fencing, 6 acres stumping, 60 acres felling and grassing.

A grazing farm situated on the Wataroa Road three miles from Pungarehu Post-office, three miles and a quarter from Pungarehu School, sixteen miles from Opunake Railway-station, and six miles from Rahotu Saleyards. Access is by metalled road. The soil is loam on clay formation. The section is flat, easy undulating to hilly, but nearly the whole area could be ploughed if cleared. Blackberry, ragwort, and gorse are prevalent.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

A. F. WATERS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/22165; D.O. R.L. 270.)

Town Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 28th November, 1938.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 30th November, 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.

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 and mortgage fees.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LANDS.

Kairanga County.—Block XIV, Kairanga Survey District.

Lots 17 and 18, D.P. 2826, being part of Rural Section 373, Township of Palmerston Registration District: Area, 9 acres 1 rood 19·7 perches. Capital value, £980*; half-yearly rent, £24 10s.

*Capital value includes the sum of £230 on account of value of improvement capitalized, comprising felling, clearing, burning, stumping, and cultivating, roads, 10 chains shelter-belts, garden, orchard of sixty trees, 30 chains internal, 15 chains boundary, and 10 chains road fencing, troughs, and 6 chains electric-power line.

Weighted with £660 for improvements, comprising dwelling (eight rooms), septic tank, stable, fowlhouse, and washhouse, &c. This sum is payable in cash, or may be secured on instalment mortgage for a period of fifteen years (with interest at 5 per cent. reducible to 4½ per cent. Half-yearly instalments consisting of principal and interest would be £33 10s. 10d. gross. At the end of the term of fifteen years any balance outstanding will be payable upon demand,