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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 8

Description of Land: See description of Otamakapua
Block (unsurveyed lands).

Description of Land: Situated at the back of Hastwell
Village, between and fronting on the Bowen and Manga-
oronga road-lines, about two miles north of the Mangamahoo
Railway-station. The block comprises hilly country with
occasional flats on the road-lines, the formation is papa and
limestone, the soil fair to good; the whole area is covered by
a forest of rata, rimu, tawa, tawhero, &c., and usual under-
growth.

14 | III. | Wairoa | .. 109 3 0 | 1 0 0 |

Description of Land: This section is situated adjacent to
the Township of Richardson, in Wairoa Survey District, and
comprises rough bush hills of sandstone and papa formation
covered with good soil. The whole of the land is covered
with forest, consisting of black birch and tawa, with under-
scrub of rangiora, &c. Access by dray-road.

20 | IV. | Wairoa | .. 1,080 0 0 | 0 10 0 |

Description of Land: This section is situated in Block IV.,
Wairoa Survey District, inland of Momohaki Settlement,
and comprises long leading spurs, which are flat-topped in
some parts of the area; the gullies are deep, and the faces
very steep. The general character of the formation is sand-
stone and papa. The soil is good on the few flat-topped
spurs, fair on the slopes, and poor on the birch ridges. The
whole of the land is covered with forest; on the ridges it is
mainly birch, with rata in places. The bush on the slopes
includes hinau, manuka, &c.

The distance from Waverley and Waitotara is about ten
miles, nine miles of which is passable for drays, the last mile
being only a foot-track, which, however, being along a good
ridge, could easily be made passable for stock.

MAUNGAKARETU BLOCK.
UNSURVEYED LANDS.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Portions of Blocks IX., X., XIII., and XIV., Maunga-
karetu Survey District; 6,800 acres. Price, 12s. per acre.

Description of Land: The lands comprised in this block
consist of high hills with broken or easy faces, merging into
undulating and flat lands in some parts of the Mangamahu
and Turakina Valleys. The soil is generally of good loamy
quality. The forest includes rimu, rata, hinau, tawa,
tawhero, maire, matai, &c., with totara in places, sufficient
generally for homestead purposes; the undergrowth includes
karamu, konini, akeake, wharangi, mahoe, &c. The block
is well watered by the Mangamahu and Turakina Streams,
and is accessible by Hales's Murimotu track. Should the
proposed Main Trunk Railway—Marton-Te Awamutu—be
constructed, it will form the natural outlet to this block, as
the proposed railway-line is only twelve miles distant. The
distance from Wanganui is about fifty miles; there is a dray-
road for about twenty-eight miles, and a formed horse-road
to within about nine miles of the block. When cleared and
grassed the country would be well adapted for pastoral pur-
poses.

Selectors will have the privilege of choosing, subject to
reasonable restrictions, the precise locality and area of their
future holdings, with the additional advantage of securing
good fencing boundaries on ridges and spurs where available.

OTAMAKAPUA (CURL'S CLEARING) BLOCK.
UNSURVEYED LANDS.—FIRST AND SECOND-CLASS LANDS.

Parts of Blocks XIV. and XV., Hautapu Survey District,
and parts of Blocks II., III., VI., and VII., Apiti Survey
District; 12,500 acres. Price, 12s. 6d. to £1 5s. per acre for
cash.

Description of Land: This block is situated on both sides
of the Kiwitea Stream, between Hammond's and Marshall's
Runs and the Pemberton Association Block, and extends
north and south from the Hinau-Tuha Ridge to the Peep-
o'-Day and Feilding-Rangiwahia Roads. The area comprises
generally broken and undulating hills intersected by deep
gullies, which are gorgy in places, but there are flats in the
Kiwitea Valley. The block is well watered. With the ex-
ception of the clearings in the Mangomako and Kiwitea
Valleys, the block is covered with forest and scrub; that on
the eastern and southern parts being heavy mixed bush,
including rimu, rata, kahikatea, matai, maire, hinau, &c.;
the undergrowth is principally matipo, makomako, rangiora,
and mahoe. The bush on the hills east and west of the
Kiwitea and Ruae Streams and in the north-western part
is generally light, consisting of hinau, maire, rewarewa,
manuka, &c., and the underscrub of kowhi, kotukutuku,
makomako, koromiko, karamu, &c. Durable timber, suffi-
cient for building and fencing purposes, is available generally
all over the block. The formation is papa and sandstone;
and the soil, with the exception of patches here and there,
varies from fair to good, with areas of superior land of deep
loamy soil in the Mangomako Valley and the southern parts
of the Kiwitea. The centre of the block is distant from Feild-
ing extends to within sixteen miles of the block,
and has been extended as a cleared or formed horse-road to
Rangiwahia, the nearest point on which is only two miles
from Curl's Clearing, where a village has been laid off, and
other necessary purposes. The country is from 1,300ft. to
2,000ft., on Tuha and Peep-o'-Day, above sea-level, and
when brought into cultivation should prove well adapted for
pastoral and agricultural pursuits.

Selectors will have the privilege of choosing, subject to
reasonable restrictions, the precise locality and area of their
future holdings, with the additional advantage of securing
good fencing boundaries on ridges and spurs where available.

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

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Town Sections, Town of Levin, to be sold by Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1889.

IT is hereby notified that the town sections in the Town of
Levin, enumerated in the accompanying schedule, will
be offered for sale by public auction, at the Crown Lands
Office, Wellington, on Thursday, the 21st March next, at 10
a.m., for cash.

Plans, &c., can be seen at this office, and at all Railway
Stations and Post Offices in the district.

One-fifth of the purchase-money must be deposited on the
fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days, or
the deposit will be forfeited.

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

SCHEDULE.
TOWNSHIP OF LEVIN, HOROWHENUA BLOCK.