718

Description of Land: About
50 acres undulating fern and
tea-tree land, remainder
mixed forest.

RAGLAN COUNTY.
Parish of Onewhero.
A. R. P.
144 95 2 0)
156 121 0 0
157 247 2 0 10/
158 268 0 0
*Subject to improvements:
Section 144 to £28; 158 to £12.
Description of Land: Sec-
tion 144, 25 acres bush, ba-
lance fern and scrub, soil
medium; 156, 115 acres bush,
balance fern, broken and un-
dulating; 157 and 158, broken
and undulating, containing a
good quantity of bush. These
lands are well watered, and
situated about eight miles
from the Tuakau and Mercer
Railway-stations.

RODNEY COUNTY.
Parish of Matakana.
97A 5 1 5 10/

WAIKATO COUNTY.
Parish of Maramarua.
37 199 2 20)
38 194 0 0 5/
39 335 3 0

Description of Land:
Nearly all swamp of rushes
and toitoi, liable to be flooded
by Whangamarino River in
winter, which is navigable to
the section, and the only
means of access.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 41

Rural Lands in the Wellington Land District open for
Sale or Selection.

ONSLOW, 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 Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report
of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said sec-
tion 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

| Section. | Area. | Cash
Price per
Acre. | Section. | Area. | Cash
Price per
Acre. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAITEMATA COUNTY.
Waipareira Parish. | | | | | |
| 187 101 0 0 7/6 | | | | | |
| Description of Land: Very
broken poor land, covered
with short fern, about three
and a half miles from Swan-
son Railway-station. | | | | | |
| WHANGAREI COUNTY.
Maungatapere Parish. | | | | | |
| 93 117 3 30 15/
E. p. 94) | | | | | |
| Description of Land: Un-
dulating, about 14 acres
mixed forest, good soil, re-
mainder open fair land. | | | | | |
| Opuawhanga Survey District.
Block VIII. | | | | | |
| 6 75 0 0 7/6 | | | | | |
| Description of Land: Good
land, covered with fern and
tea-tree. | | | | | |
| Tangihua Survey District.
Block II. | | | | | |
| 21 100 0 0
24 95 0 0 10/ | | | | | |
| Description of Land: For-
est, good soil, but slightly
broken. | | | | | |
| NOT IN A COUNTY.
Parish of Aotea. | | | | | |
| S.E.
pt. 127 | 36 0 13 10/ | | | | |
| Description of Land: Situ-
ated at Okupu Bay, one-
third mixed bush, remainder
open land, very broken. | | | | | |

| Block. | Survey
District. | Area. | Cash
Price
per
Acre. | Deferred-
payment
Price per
Acre. | Perpetual-
lease Rent
per Acre. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Mangahao Block. | | | | | |
| A. R. P. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | s. d. |
| III. | Mangahao | 249 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 273 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 418 1 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| VI. | " | 299 1 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 305 3 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 310 3 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 266 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 272 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 110 1 0 | 2 6 | 1 5 7 | 1 1 |
| " | " | 107 2 0 | 2 6 | 1 5 7 | 1 1 |
| " | " | 99 2 0 | 2 6 | 1 5 7 | 1 1 |
| " | " | 348 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 314 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 318 3 12 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 310 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 266 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 263 1 20 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 262 0 20 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 157 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 153 2 20 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 129 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |
| " | " | 131 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 1 0 |

Description of Land: These sections form part of the
original Masterton-Mangahao Special-settlement Block, and
comprise generally hilly and undulating country, with flats
in places. The forest is of mixed character, tolerably heavy,
and the undergrowth is, as a rule, dense; the trees include
rata, rimu, tawa, pukatea, rewarewa, hinau, miro, matai,
and occasional totara; the scrub, supplejack, karamu, ma-
hoe, pungas, &c. The soil is generally of good quality, rest-
ing on limestone and papa. The sections form a block about
three miles long and two and a quarter miles broad, running
north-east and south-west. Its south-eastern side is about
sixty chains distant from the Mangahao River, or about five
miles from Pahiatua, of which about four and a quarter
miles are formed into a good dray-road. Its north-western
side is on the slopes of the Tararua Range, and about ten
miles from Palmerston by road, of which distance about six
miles are already formed. The proposed Palmerston-Pahia-
tua Road intersects the block, and there is also a through
road leading to Ballance Township. Horse-tracks are already
cleared almost up to the northern and southern boundaries,
and on all sides except the north-western, which is forest
reserve; bush-felling has been done by the settlers on
adjacent lands. The area is fairly well watered, and the
general elevation of the country ranges from 350ft. to 1,000ft.
above sea-level; the climate is mild, the rainfall copious;
under such conditions the land, when cleared, will be well
adapted for agricultural and pastoral pursuits.

Mr. G. T. Murray, Government Surveyor, of Pahiatua, will
arrange to send guides over the block with intending selec-
tors, if not less than three in number. The block can be
easily visited in a day from Pahiatua.

UNSURVEYED LAND.
BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Auckland,
being situated in Block XII., Kerikeri Survey District, con-
taining by admeasurement 177 acres, more or less. Bounded
towards the north generally by Kerikeri Inlet; towards the
south-east and south by a public road-line, 150 links wide;
and towards the west by a line: save and excepting there-
from Sections 1A and 1B of Block XII. aforesaid, containing
2 acres 1 rood 25 perches and 2 roods 15 perches respec-
tively.

Description of Land: All open, mostly scoria rock, &c.;
value, 7s. 6d. per acre.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.
Mangamuka Survey District.—Block VIII.

All that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 150
acres, more or less, called or known as Section 8, Block VIII.,
Mangamuka Survey District. Bounded towards the north-
west by a line; towards the north-east by Section 1, Block
VIII.; towards the south-east by the Waihou River; and
towards the west by the Makawanui Creek.

Description of Land: Two-thirds mixed bush, remainder
fern land and raupo swamp; price, 12s. 6d. per acre.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-nine.

G. F. RICHARDSGN,
Minister of Lands.