APRIL 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 681

HOKIANGA COUNTY.
OMAPERE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Description of Land.—Section 1, 11 acres alluvial flat formerly cultivated, 22 acres open fern and manuka, 23 acres mixed forest, undulating pastoral land, good clay soil, well watered, and accessible by Great North Road ; 2, 12 acres alluvial flat formerly cultivated, 20 acres open fern, 33 acres mixed forest containing puriri, soil good, undulating, well watered, accessible by Great North Road ; 3, 10 acres mixed forest containing puriri, 61 acres open fern and manuka, good clay soil, agricultural land, and comparatively level ; 4, 20 acres mixed forest with puriri and totara, 32 acres open fern, soil good sandy clay, undulating, agricultural ; 5, open fern and manuka on good undulating sandy clay soil, agricultural ; 6, 6 acres forest injured by fire, 64 acres open fern and small manuka, soil good clay, undulating, agricultural ; 7, 11 acres mixed forest, 48 acres fern and manuka, poor clay soil, pastoral, hilly ; 8, open fern and manuka, undulating, good sandy clay soil with volcanic boulders interspersed, well watered, pastoral ; 9, 15 acres mixed forest, about 50 acres open forest injured by fire, soil good clay, land undulating, pastoral ; 10, 12 acres fern flat, 72 acres mixed forest, soil good sandy clay, a few kauri, puriri, and totara, land undulating, pastoral ; 11, 20 acres fern, 88 acres mixed forest, puriri and totara, soil good sandy clay, partly volcanic, undulating, pastoral ; 12, 13 acres open fern, 91 acres mixed forest, puriri and totara, soil chiefly volcanic clay, undulating, pastoral ; 13, 8 acres open fern, 2 acres swamp capable of drainage, 138 acres mixed forest containing puriri and totara, hilly, soil good clay with volcanic rocks and boulders in northern portion ; 14, 8 acres open fern, 3 acres swamp, 170 acres mixed forest, puriri and totara, soil chiefly volcanic clay, hilly ; 15, 11 acres fern flat, 82 acres mixed forest chiefly on volcanic soil, puriri and totara, undulating, pastoral ; 16, 18 acres fern flat, 77 acres mixed forest, totara and puriri, soil volcanic clay, pastoral, undulating ; 17, 4 acres flat, 107 acres mixed forest, &c. ; 18, 15 acres river flat in fern and tall manuka, 70 acres light forest and manuka, soil good clay, pastoral, undulating ; 19, 10 acres river flat, fern and manuka, 120 acres mixed forest, soil good clay and loam with volcanic rocks, undulating, pastoral ; 20, 6 acres river flat, 94 acres mixed forest, totara and puriri, soil volcanic clay, pastoral ; 21, mixed forest, with fine kauri and some puriri and totara, soil good clay, portions volcanic, land hilly, well sheltered. The above sections are all well watered and accessible by road.

MANGAMUKA SURVEY DISTRICT.

| VIII. | 3 | 55 2 36 | 41 16 0 |
| | 4 | 176 0 0 | 176 0 0 |
| | 5 | 114 0 0 | 114 0 0 |
| | 6 | 85 0 0 | 85 0 0 |

Description of Land.—Section 3, 4 acres swampy forest, 20 acres mixed forest with some high manuka, totara, and puriri, 31 acres fern land, pastoral and hilly, well watered, and accessible by road : 4, 17 acres fern and tall manuka, former cultivation chiefly river flat, 159 acres mixed forest, soil generally good, broken, pastoral, and accessible by road ; 5, 7 acres river flat covered with high manuka, 106 acres mixed forest, soil good, hilly, pastoral, well watered and accessible by road ; 6, 6 acres river flat, covered with high manuka, partly subject to floods, 14 acres fern and small manuka, 65 acres mixed forest, land pastoral and undulating, well watered and accessible by road.

HOBSON COUNTY.
MANGAKAHIA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Description of Land.—Kauri forest on branch of One Creek, Mangakahia Valley, accessible by bush-track from Mangakahia and Kaikohe Road.

PARISH OF KAIWAKA.

Description of Land.—The above sections contain valuable kauri timber, very broken land.

RODNEY COUNTY.
PARISH OF MANGAWAI.

| 239 | 4 0 0 | 4 0 0 |

Description of Land.—Undulating, accessible by road.

WAIHEKE ISLAND.
PARISH OF WAIHEKE.

| 79 | 17 2 0 | 17 10 0 |
| 79A | 35 2 5 | 17 17 6 |
| 80 | 32 1 14 | 16 5 0 |
| 81 | 23 2 11 | 11 17 6 |
| 82 | 23 2 19 | 11 17 6 |
| 84 | 33 3 35 | 39 0 0 |
| 85 | 44 1 0 | 22 2 6 |
| 86 | 61 0 0 | 30 10 0 |
| 87 | 54 3 0 | 27 7 6 |
| 88 | 74 3 31 | 37 10 0 |
| 89 | 31 1 24 | 15 15 0 |
| 90 | 71 0 26 | 17 16 3 |
| 92 | 49 3 0 | 24 17 6 |
| 94 | 23 1 37 | 11 15 0 |
| 95 | 11 1 35 | 5 15 0 |
| 97 | 453 3 0 | 114 13 9|

Description of Land.—Section 84 contains 15 acres of kauri bush ; 97, 70 acres swamp, remainder short fern and tea-tree. The other sections are covered with mixed bush, fern, and tea-tree.

WAIKATO COUNTY.
PARISH OF TAUPIRI.

| 54A | 7 0 0 | 7 0 0 |
| 55A | 3 2 0 | 3 10 0|

Description of Land.—Rush swamp, covered at floods.

NOTE.—Maps of the above lands may be seen, and further particulars obtained, on application at this office.
Schedules containing descriptions, &c., of above lands will be exhibited at railway stations and post offices.
Terms of Sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at time of sale, and the balance within one month thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land shall henceforward be null and void.
Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

Sale of Crown Lands, West Coast (North Island) Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 8th February, 1884.

NOTICE.—Section No. 2, Block VIII., Wairoa Survey District, having been excluded from sale pending the survey of a road, and the said road now having been taken through it, it is hereby notified that the section at the reduced area (103 acres 1 rood 12 perches) after excluding road is now released from such exclusion, and will be again offered at public auction.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.