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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection.

Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 28th March, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections
are open for selection 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, 24th April, 1939.

The land described in the First Schedule may, at the option
of the applicants, be purchased for cash or on deferred pay-
ments, or be selected on renewable lease. The land described
in the Second Schedule may be selected on renewable lease
only.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the
Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on
Wednesday, 26th April, 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.

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, deposit in reduction of improvement
loading, and proportionate part of insurance premium on
buildings.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-THIRD-CLASS LAND.
Kawhia County.-Kawhia North Survey District.

Section 3, Block XVI : Area, 288 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 £300 for improvements, comprising dwelling,
approximately 239 chains fencing, 15 acres cultivation, 50 acres
surface sown and 8 acres stumping. This sum is payable
in cash, or after payment of a deposit of £30 the balance £270
may be secured on mortgage to the State Advances Corpora-
tion of New Zealand payable over a period of twenty years
by means of quarterly instalments of principal and interest
combined with interest at the rate ruling as at date of selection
subject to a rebate of half per cent. for payment of the
instalments on or before fourteen days after the due dates
thereof. The selector will require to meet the costs of prepara-
tion and registration of the mortgage amounting to £3 7s.

This is a run-off section situated on Kihi Road, four miles
and a half from Hauturu Post-office, three miles and a half
from Hauturu School, seven miles from Oparau Saleyards,
and forty-five miles from Te Awamutu Railway-station.
Access is obtained from Te Awamutu by metalled road. The
property comprises approximately 40 acres undulating country,
balance being hilly and steep with about 100 acres waste.
Soil is light loam on sandstone formation; watered by
springs and streams. At present approximately 15 acres is in
good pasture, 50 acres worn-out pasture, 8 acres felled and
stumped, balance having reverted to fern and second growth.
Ragwort is bad and requires immediate attention.

Note.-This section is not suitable as a separate holding
but would be useful as a run-off to an established nearby
farmer.

(H.O. 34/167; D.O., M.L. 3997.)

SECOND SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-THIRD-CLASS LAND.
(Exempt from payment of rent for three years.*)

Section 14, Block IX : Area, 744 acres. Capital value,
£250; half-yearly rent, £5.

• Rental exemption is conditional upon the selector effecting
  permanent improvements to the land each year of a value
  equivalent to the concession granted.

Weighted with £492 for improvements, comprising a
dwelling, woolshed, sheep dip, road boundary fencing, sub-
divisional fencing, half-share in boundary fencing, clearing
and grassing.

This sum is payable in cash, or after payment of a deposit
of £142 the balance £350 may be secured on mortgage to the
State Advances Corporation of New Zealand payable over
a period of twenty years by means of quarterly instalments

of principal and interest combined with interest at the rate
ruling as at date of selection subject to a rebate of half per
cent. for payment of the instalments on or before fourteen
days after the due dates thereof. The selector will require
to meet the costs of preparation and registration of the
mortgage, amounting to £3 7s.

Grazing proposition situated on the main Pirongia-Kawhia
Road, two miles from Te Rau-a-Moa Post-office and School,
and twenty-two miles from Otorohanga Railway-station,
Dairy Factory and Saleyards, access being from Otorohanga by
metalled road. Steep hilly section broken by two transverse
ridges, approximately 200 acres being in poor pasture, 230 acres
in worn-out pasture (practically reverted), the balance of
about 314 acres being in its natural state of fern, scrub, and
standing bush. Soil is light loam on clay and sandstone
formation; watered by springs and stream. Ragwort and
blackberry are in evidence and require attention.

(H.O. 31/229 ; D.O., O.R.P. 1803.)

Any further information required may be obtained from
the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Nelson Land District for License by Ballot.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 28th March, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned
pastoral run is open for license in terms of Part VI
of the Land Act, 1924, and applications will be received at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, up to noon
on Tuesday, 9th May, 1939.

Applicants are required to appear personally before the
Land Board for examination at the District Lands and
Survey Office, Nelson, on Thursday, 11th May, 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,
license fee, and amount of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.-PASTORAL RUN.
(Exempt from payment of half the annual rental for five
years.*)

Amuri County.-Motupiko, Rotoiti, Rainbow, Wairau, and
Arnaud Survey Districts.

PASTORAL Run No. 60 (Rainbow): Area, 76,200 acres, more
or less. Annual rental, £110.

Weighted with £200 (payable in cash) for improvements,
consisting of dwelling, stable, and fencing.

*Rental exemption is conditional on the licensee effecting
improvements on the property to the satisfaction of the Land
Board, such improvements to be of a value of not less than
the amount of the remission involved, and in addition to the
improvements required to be effected, to comply with the
conditions of the license, vide clause 6 "Improvements"
below.

The run is situated in the Wairau and Rainbow
Valleys about six miles from Tophouse. Access is by the
main highway for four miles, then by two miles of unformed
dray road. Altitude varies from 1,900 ft. to 7,000 ft. above
sea-level. The area comprises rough run country, fairly
open excepting in the Begley Valley, which is in bush. There
is fair grazing in the valleys, the country running to steep
rocky faces on to mountain-tops. The boundaries follow
natural features excepting at a point on the southern
boundary, where there is a cattle-stop in the Wairau River.
The homestead is in about the centre of the run, which is
suitable for grazing cattle and dry sheep.

Abstract of Conditions of Pastoral License.

1. Licensee shall be over twenty-one years of age.

2. Term of license: Twenty-one years from 1st March,
   1940, with contingent right of renewal over the whole run, or
   if it is subdivided over one subdivision.

3. No person may hold more than one run, except with the
   approval of the Minister of Lands given on the recommendation
   of the Land Board. If a husband holds a run, his wife
   is deemed to be a runholder, and vice versa.