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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

Description of Land: Lots 212, 213, and 214, all open swamp, flax, and raupo; Lot 215, about 60 acres kahikatea swamp, balance covered with manuka and flax, manuka 10ft. to 20ft. high, soil black loamy peat, 1½ft. to 2ft. deep, lying over a white marly clay, and quite dry during summer; Lot 216, about 10 to 15 acres, kahikatea, balance open swamp, fronts partially-drained road; Lot 218, about 3 acres dry land, balance open swamp, fronts partially-drained road, and close to dry land; Lots 219, 220, and 221, all open swamp, very wet; Lot 222, all open swamp, very wet, growing stunted manuka and moss; Lots 223 and 224, all open swamp, covered with rushes, and not very wet. There is a fall of from 7ft. to 9ft. in the mile over all this part of the swamp on a bearing of 189° 27′ (the direction of the main road), with peat 2ft. to 9ft. deep overlying the clay. The peat is deepest on the land side, getting shallower as it approaches the Waikato River. The main Government drain through this block is now completed.

Description of Land: Section 1, Lot 71, first-class volcanic land close to railway-station, a good road-frontage; Section 2, Lots 158, 161, 165, 166, 167, 172, 174, 189, 202, and 203, all first class, level or slightly undulating, very rich soil, covered with heavy mixed bush; Lots 209, 206, 219, 225, 229, and 230, very rich soil, gentle slope towards the north, covered with heavy mixed bush. The whole of these allotments lie within a radius of two or three miles of the Pukekohe Railway-station, and have frontages to roads open for cart-traffic. A good deal of fencing is already done, as most of the lots are surrounded by farms under cultivation. Lots 272 and 279 have been fenced and laid down in grass by the owners of adjoining lots; Lot 144, first-class soil, nearly level, partially covered with heavy bush; Section 3, Lots 15, 25, 28, 30, and 42, are first-class, semi-volcanic, level allotments, covered with heavy mixed bush.

Parish of Waipipi.—Karicitahi Settlement.

1 | 19 | 11 0 0 | 11 0 0

Description of Land: Open, about half swamp.

Parish of Waipipi.—Kohekohc Settlement.

5 | 85A | 4 2 31 | 4 15 0

| 111 | 1 0 23 | 2 6 0

WAIPA COUNTY.

| 100B | 8 1 10 | 4 5 0

Description of Land: Fern-hills and swamp, soil fair, accessible by road.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at time of sale, and the balance within two months 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 thenceforward be null and void. Crown-grant fees to be paid on completion of purchase.

Maps of the above lands may be seen and further particulars obtained on application at this office.

Schedules containing descriptions, &c., of the above lands will be exhibited at railway-stations and post-offices.

Land Sale at Tauranga.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1887.

THE following lands will be offered for sale, by public auction, at the Land Office, Tauranga, on Thursday, the 6th October next, at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

TAURANGA COUNTY.—SUBURBS OF GREERTON.

Description of Land: Good agricultural land.

PARISH OF TE PAPA.

359, 361 | 81 2 16 | 61 5 0

Description of Land: About twelve miles from Tauranga, half mixed bush and half fern, rather broken, and well watered.

MAKETU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Description of Land: Block V., Section 9A, about three-fourths open fern land, soil very good, but country rather broken, one-fourth mixed bush of tawa, rata, rimu, &c., well watered, and accessible by a formed cart-road; Section 22, open fern undulating land, soil good, a few acres of mixed bush on the Ohineangaanga Stream, which forms its western boundary, situated on a formed cart-road, and fenced on northern boundary; Block VI., Sections 23 and 24, mixed forest land, soil good, rather broken, bush consists of tawa, rimu, rata, and pukatea, well-watered, and accessible by formed cart-road; Section 30, open fern undulating land, soil good, situated on a formed cart-road; Block IX., Section 9, about three-fourths open fern land, very good soil, but rather broken, remainder mixed forest of tawa, rata, rimu, &c., well watered, and accessible by formed cart-road.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at time of sale, and the balance within two months 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 thenceforward be null and void. Crown-grant fees to be paid on completion of purchase.

Maps of the above lands may be seen and further particulars obtained on application at this office, and at the Land Office, Tauranga.