Nov. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1615

SCHEDULE.

Terms of Payment: With the applications for deferred-payment sections one-twentieth of the upset price must be paid in cash, or by bank draft, or marked cheque; the balance of the purchase-money in half-yearly instalments extending over ten years. This will also apply to the deferred-payment sections to be offered at public auction.

AUCTION SALE.

Also, at 12 o’clock noon of Thursday, the 18th December next, the sections, as per Schedule hereunder, will be offered for sale, for cash, by public auction, at the Institute, Masterton.

SCHEDULE.

CASH-PAYMENT SECTIONS.

• Add £170 for improvements.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Wellington within one calendar month from date of sale, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land thenceforth will be null and void. Crown-grant fees to be paid on completion of the purchases.

DEFERRED-PAYMENT SECTIONS FORFEITED.

• Add £5 for improvements.

The majority of the sections comprised in the above Schedules are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer’s Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer’s Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-five miles, and forty-miles. The Mangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville.

The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington to Napier is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected at several points.

The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c.

The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the area; it is well-watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable, the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes.

The Kaiwhata Sections 1 to 5 consist of high hilly land, of fair and inferior quality, covered with light bush, mixed scrub, and manuka, with occasional small open patches.

Section 1, Block IV., consists of good hilly land, partly cleared and grassed, the balance being covered by light bush.

The means of access are by a partly-formed bridle-track from Gladstone, and from the coast by the Kaiwhata Valley.

Maps, schedules, and application forms can be obtained at the Land Office, Wellington, and maps and schedules at the Post Offices, Featherston, Greytown, Masterton, Woodville, Palmerston North, Foxton, and Wanganui, and at the various Crown Land Offices throughout the colony.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Crown Lands on Deferred Payments at Oxford, Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 3rd November, 1884.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be offered to the public as follows:—

DEFERRED-PAYMENT LANDS.

On Wednesday, the 17th December next, applications will be received at the Land Office, Christchurch, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., for the under-mentioned lands, open for application on deferred payments.

SCHEDULE.

SECTIONS IN RESERVE No. 2331.