✨ Rural Lands for Sale or Selection
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29
Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection.
Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre respectively set opposite such land in the said Schedule.
SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND DISTRICT.
| Block. | Section. | Area. | Cash Price per Acre. |
|---|
FIRST-CLASS LANDS.
BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.
Hukerenui Survey District.
A. R. P.
V. | 17 | 61 1 13 | 20/
Description of Land: Open, partly covered with manuka scrub; well watered, and large frontage to main coach-road.
HOKIANGA COUNTY.
Mangamuka Survey District.
X. | 27 | 42 1 13 | 20/
Subject to £13 15s. for improvements.
HOBSON COUNTY.
Mangakahia Survey District.
IX. | 1 | 183 1 14 | 20/
Description of Land: Undulating and covered with kauri orest.
HOKIANGA COUNTY.
Waoku Survey District.
IX. | 17 | 44 2 0 | 22/
Description of Land: Twelve acres good bush, the rest mixed tea-tree flats and fern hills.
Herekino Survey District.
III. | 14 | 40 0 0 | 25/
MANGONUI COUNTY.
Parish of Mangonui.
| 130 | 36 0 0 | 20/
On Paewhenua Island.
MANUKAU COUNTY.
Parish of Waipipi.
| 16 | 9 1 0 | 55/
| 64 | 9 0 0 | 30/
Description of Land: Lot 16, about two-thirds bush, remainder fern, about 33,000ft. of kauri timber on this section; 64, mixed bush and fern, there are about 13,000ft. of kauri on this section.
Parish of Awitu.
| 118 | 103 3 0 | 20/
| 132 | 87 1 34 | 30/
| 134 | 129 0 10 | 20/
| 140 | 63 0 0 | 20/
Description of Land: Lots 118 and 140, open lands, good soil; 132, part open and part forest, very good soil; 134, chiefly mixed forest with kahikatea and raupo swamp, land good but broken.
OHINEMURI COUNTY.
Waitoa Survey District.
XII. | 3 | 300 0 8 | 20/
| 4 | 292 2 27 | 20/
| 5 | 148 2 29 | 20/
| 6 | 297 3 9 | 20/
Description of Land: Swampy, with fern spurs, except Section 3, which is dry, and covered with flax and fern.
| Block. | Section. | Area. | Cash Price per Acre. |
|---|
Aroha Survey District.
A. R. P.
IX. | 4 | 188 0 2 | 20/
Description of Land: Swampy, with some dry land easily drained.
PIAKO COUNTY.
Waitoa Survey District.
XII. | 7 | 295 3 15 | 20/
| 8 | 291 3 6 |
| 10 | 264 3 0 |
| 11 | 287 3 0 |
Description of Land: All sections swamp lands, with dry fern spurs, easily drained.
RODNEY COUNTY.
Parish of Omaha.
| 25 | 14 1 20 | 20/
Description of Land: Broken land, light, mixed forest and tea-tree.
TAURANGA COUNTY.
Parish of Te Papa.
| 391 | 47 1 35 | 20/
Description of Land: Two-thirds covered with mixed forest, very broken; remainder fern land with a little grass.
WAITEMATA COUNTY.
Parish of Waipareira.
| 133A | 16 3 8 | 40/
Description of Land: Open, broken land, alongside railway near Swanson.
SECOND-CLASS LANDS.
BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.
Motatau Survey District.
(Ngapipito Block.)
I. | 1 | 89 0 20 | 10/
| 2 | 102 2 12 |
| 3 | 93 2 13 |
Description of Land: Half bush and half open on each section, good land, and well watered.
Parish of Okokako.
| 13 | 14 3 14 | 10/
| 16 | 20 0 0 |
| 17 | 20 0 0 |
| 19 | 19 2 0 |
Description of Land: Covered with tea-tree, taramoa, &c., soil good and well watered, near Waimate.
Russell Survey District.
I. | 2 | 193 3 39 | 10/
II. | 2 |
Description of Land: Open land, very broken, but containing some manganese.
COROMANDEL COUNTY.
Harataunga Survey District.
VIII. | 1 | 20 0 0 | 10/
| 2 | 20 0 0 |
| 3 | 20 0 0 |
| 4 | 20 0 0 |
| 5 | 20 0 0 |
| 6 | 20 0 0 |
| 7 | 20 0 0 |
| 8 | 20 0 0 |
| 9 | 55 1 0 |
| 10 | 141 0 0 |
Description of Land: Mixed bush and open land, covered with scrub, situated near Cabbage Bay; limestone outcrop in Section 7.
HOKIANGA COUNTY.
Mangamuka Survey District.
X. | 17A | 20 3 27 | 15/
Description of Land: All heavy mixed bush, broken.
Omapere Survey District.
IX. | 8 | 84 1 21 | 15/
Description of Land: Ten acres fern and tea-tree, remainder mixed forest, undulating.
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🗺️ Rural Lands Open for Sale or Selection
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey1 January 1970
Rural lands, Sale, Selection, Land Act Amendment Act 1887, Schedule, Counties, Sections, Prices
- Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
NZ Gazette 1888, No 29