LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 2

LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT.

NORTHERN BLOCKS OPENED. Applications wl!l be received up to December 9 for au area of 15>S6 acres of second-class laud in the Bickerstaffe settlement, Otajnatea County, f-ltuated tin the .Te Tahi River, wirhin about six miles ot YVhakapiniu. The block is divided iuto i eleven sections ranging In area from -110 to lIS acres, and all are offered under renewable lease. Practically all the sections are i weighted with improvements, one having a ■ sij-rooined house with outbuildings valued i lit £3So, .'in(l n notlicr a sovpd-roomed ijoiisr ■valued at £500, The soil is either day or I light soil on a limestone foundation, fairlj ! well watered and mostly covered with I ti-tree or light bnah. All fectione have I access to tidal waters. Applications will be received at the District Lands Office, Auckland, or the Courthouse, Parjiariile, and the . ballot will be beid at the latter place on December 12. Applicants will have to apjpear personally before the Land Board on I thp last-mentioned date at Darjravillo to answer any questions that hotly may ask, but if any applicant ro desires he may be examined by die Land Board of the district lln which lie resides. I , reference will be ' p-Iven to landless applicants with children dependent upon them, or to those w-ho have j been twice unsuccessful at ballots held I wiUlia the past rwo years. An area of 2OBK acres of first-claw land in the Tokatoka Surrey District, (Hamatca ' Connt.r, is also open for select Inn under 1 renewable lease, and applications will lie 'received at Auckland or DargiiviMe up to December 0. There are 20 sections. aVer- | using 7") acres in area, and these nre offered !iit half-yearly rentals ranpin? from £1?, In i;2O. Most of the land is level an<l covered with stumps and heads of workwl-out knhl'*ute.a forest, with some scrub and raupn. .The soil is rich alluvial, not watered hy I streams, but water c.-ni he trhtalued by I borinpr artesian well*. -Mn«t of Ihe sections i which ai-e about four and nhalf miles from : Nutimal by an unformed ruad, are weighted I'Witli Improvements, chiefly consistlug of j boundary drains.

Seven i.-iilated of sr»-nnd-clas.s land, siluated in various pan.s of the Auckland Land District, may be applied for up tc Dcceiiiber 15.