Jan. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 51

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Retaruke Survey District.

Part Section 2, Block XI: Area, 523 acres. Capital value, £135. Deposit on deferred payments, £5: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 4s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2 14s.

Weighted with £533 for improvements, comprising dwelling and outbuildings, woolshed, yards, roads, bridges, 12 chains road fencing, 46 chains subdivisional fencing, 38 chains boundary fencing, and 125 acres felled, burned, and surface-sown. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £18, the balance may be secured by mortgage to the District Public Trustee, Wanganui, payable over a period of fifteen years by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest amounting to £24 0s. 7d., interest rate 4½ per cent.

This property is situated on the Raurimu-Retaruke Road, eighteen miles from the Kaitieke Post-office and Saleyards, two miles from the Retaruke School, and twenty-eight miles from the Raurimu Railway-station, access being by metalled road. The soil is a light quality loam resting on sandstone and papa formation, and the land is watered by streams. About 12 acres are level, the balance of the area being undulating to hilly and rough. About 125 acres are in grass, but the balance has reverted. The buildings are in fair order. The property, which is subdivided into three paddocks, is suitable for grazing and could be worked to advantage by an adjoining owner.

(H.O. XI/4/557; D.O. O.R.P. 1377.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Hunua Survey District.

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

Section 23, Block X: Area, 119 acres 1 rood 24 perches. Capital value, £180; half-yearly rent, £3 12s.

*After payment of the prescribed deposit an exemption from the payment of rent for two years will be granted, provided improvements to the value of the rent so remitted are effected to the satisfaction of the Land Board.

Weighted with £650 for improvements, comprising dwelling (very old and in bad order), garage, piggeries (6), implement-shed, slaughterhouse, old shed, cow-shed, yards, fencing, plantations, roading, water-supply, felling, burning, stumping, clearing and grazing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £10, the balance may be paid over a period of twenty-one years with interest at 5 per cent. Half-yearly instalments consisting of principal and interest will amount to £24 19s. 2d.

This property is situated on the Otapouri Road, thirteen miles from Taumarunui and two miles from Owhango. It comprises 40 acres of light pumice flats of poor quality including 4 acres of swampy land, the balance of the section being hill country of a shady nature and too steep to plough. The existing pasture is very poor and weedy and 20 acres have entirely reverted to fern, &c. Ragwort and blackberry are also in evidence. The property is well watered and is subdivided into eleven paddocks, but the fencing is in the very worst condition. Generally the buildings are poor and a new dwelling will shortly be required. A man with sufficient capital could, with good handling, make a fair proposition of the section.

(H.O. 26/4573; D.O. R.L. 349.)

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waimarino County.—Mangamui Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for two years.)

Sections 3 and 9, Block IX: Area, 979 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £250. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £7 16s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £5.

Weighted with £1,355 for improvements, comprising dwelling of ten rooms, dwelling of four rooms, wool-shed, cow-bye, shed, yards and dip, fencing, roads and tracks, plantations, felling, burning, and sowing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £25, the balance may be secured by mortgage payable over a period of thirty-six years and a half with interest at 4½ per cent. Half-yearly instalments of principal and interest will amount to £38 11s. 6d.

The land is situated on the Raetihi-Ohura Road, fourteen miles from the Raetihi Post-office, Railway-station, Dairy Factory, and Saleyards, and five miles from Ruatiti School, access being by metalled road from Raetihi. The soil is of poor to medium quality resting on sandstone, papa, and rock formation, and the land is watered by streams and springs. At present 150 acres are in good to medium pasture, 120 acres in poor pasture, 509 acres have reverted to fern and scrub, and 200 acres are in the natural state. The property is free from rabbits but has some foxglove and ragwort.

The western portion of Section 3 is steep and broken, the balance consisting of easy hills with some good flats and terraces. This section is subdivided into six paddocks and is suitable for grazing and a small dairy herd.

Section 9 is mostly medium to steep broken country with some easy to flat areas along the Ohura Road and on the southern end on Makino Road. The Ruatiti and Makino Streams form gorges, which make it difficult to handle stock. This section is subdivided into four paddocks and is suitable for grazing only.

A good energetic worker could make these sections produce quite satisfactory returns.

(H.O. XI/4/75; D.O. O.R.P. 979, 981.)

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 18th January, 1939.

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, Wellington, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 20th February, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 22nd February, 1939, 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, lease fee, and amount of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Pahiatua Borough.—Mangahao Survey District.

Portion of Lots 21 and 22, D.P. 301, and being part section 21, Block VIII: Area, 32·89 perches. Capital value, £100; half-yearly rent, £2 10s.

Weighted with £220 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising old post-office building.

This section is the old post-office building-site, and is level land situated at the corner of Main and King Streets, Pahiatua.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

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

(H.O. 6/3/21; D.O. 8/801; Misc. 1880.)

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 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 the applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, up to 3 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 20th February, 1939.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 22nd February, 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.