Nov. 23.]

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenures.

Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st November, 1939.

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 Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland,
up to 11 o'clock a.m. on Monday, 11th December, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland,
on Wednesday, 13th December, 1939, at 10 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.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.-Maungamangero Survey District.

PART Section 1, Block XI: Area, 687 acres.* Capital value,
£500. Deposit on deferred payments, £20. Half-yearly
instalment on deferred payments, £15 12s. Renewable lease:
half-yearly rent, £10.

*Area being offered is under survey and the acreage is
subject to alteration.

Weighted with £1,945 for improvements, comprising a
dwelling, wool-shed and yards, cow-shed, road boundary
fencing, subdivisional fencing, half-share in boundary fencing,
clearing, and grassing. This sum is payable in cash, or,
after payment of a deposit of £205, the balance, £1,740, may
be secured on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation
of New Zealand, payable over a period of thirty-years by
quarterly instalments of principal and interest combined with
interest at the rate ruling at the date of selection, subject to
a rebate of ½ per cent. for prompt payment of the instalments.
The mortgage will contain covenants to provide for the
satisfactory top-dressing of the section, and for the control
and gradual eradication of noxious weeds. Costs of preparation and registration of the mortgage amount to £7 11s.,
and this amount is payable by the selector.

This is a grazing proposition situated in the Mangaotaki
Road, nine miles from Pio Pio Post-office, Dairy Factory, and
Saleyards, two miles and a half from Haku School, and
twenty-five miles from Te Kuiti Railway-station, access
being by metalled road from Pio Pio. The property is
mainly of easy contour being divided by a limestone bluff
with the front portion somewhat broken by gullies running
from this bluff to the Mangaotaki Stream. With the exception
of approximately 38 acres waste land, the whole area is
generally in fair pasture. Soil is light loam resting on limestone formation; permanently watered by streams and
springs. Blackberry has a strong hold and requires
immediate attention, while ragwort is in evidence and will
require to be kept under control.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 22/4358 ; D.O. L.P. 1534.)

Settlement Land in Wellington Land District for Selection on
Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section
is open for selection on renewable lease under the
Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925;

and applications will be received at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Wellington, up to noon on Monday, llth
December, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 13th December, 1939, at 10 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 weighting for
improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-SETTLEMENT LAND.
Patea County.-Block II, Wairoa Survey District.-Soland
Settlement.

SECTION ls : Area, 75 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £230*;
half-yearly rent, £5 15s.

• Capital value includes the sum of £150 for Crown's
  improvements, consisting of 30 acres felled, burned, and
  grassed, and 25 acres cleared and stumped.

Weighted with £270 for improvements, comprising dwelling,
18 chains of boundary fencing, 30 chains subdivisional
fencing, 22 chains of road fencing, and power-line to shed.
This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit
of £20, the balance may be paid over a period of fifteen years
by half-yearly instalments of £7 3s. 5d., interest being at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.

This property is situated on the Karahaki Road, eight
miles from Waverley by good metalled road. The soil is
light sandy loam resting on a clay formation and is watered
by stream and dam. Approximately 30 acres consist of
good flat land whilst the balance consists of gullies, most of
which have easy slopes and although the gullies are infested
with gorse the plough could be used well down in the process
of reclamation. The property needs reploughing and sowing
and if worked in conjunction with another property it would
be a desirable proposition, but as separate holding, the property
would require a man with sufficient capital to replough,
resow and stock with sheep for a few years.

The section is subdivided into 7 paddocks and although
there is some ragwort it has been kept under control. At the
present time some 15 acres are in good pasture, 14 acres
worn out, and 20 acres are in heavy gorse.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the
undersigned.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
(H.O. 26/8253 ; D.O. L.S.R.L. 882.)

Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Optional
Tenures.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 21st November, 1939.

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, Blenheim, up to 4 o'clock
p.m. on Tuesday, 9th January, 1940.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday,
llth January, 1940, 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,