MAR. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 441

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection.

District Land and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1892.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Friday, the 18th March, 1892, when the first applicant on any tenure will be entitled to the area applied for :—

FIRST-CLASS UNSURVEYED LAND.

North-east Puketoi Block.—Makuri and Mount Cerberus Survey Districts.

Bounded on the north-east by the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay; on the south-east by Crown lands and the Coonoor Farm-homestead Block; on the south-west by the Middle Makuri Puketoi Block; and on the north-west by the North Puketoi Block.

This block consists of hilly and undulating lands, the western portion being in many places steep, with broken gullies; out towards the east it improves, and has more of a plateau or undulating character. The formation is limestone, papa, and sandstone, with soil from good to first-class. The timber consists of rata, rimu, hinau, miro, tawa, tawhero, and totara, with a dense underscrub consisting of matipo, supplejacks, &c. The altitude ranges from about 1,000ft. to 2,600ft. The block is generally well watered throughout. The principal access will be from Pahiatua, via Makuri Township, to which points roads are either made or are now under construction, distance about twenty-three miles. There is also another approach via Makairo Road, a dray-road being made eleven and a half miles from Pahiatua, or within two and a quarter miles of the land.

From Makuri Township, and within the block itself, horse- and dray-roads will be made by the Government through the entire area to the extent of the funds available, a sum of 6s. per acre having been added to the price of the land for this purpose.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands open for Sale or Selection.

District Land and Survey Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1892.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 23rd March, 1892, when the first applicant on any tenure will be entitled to the area applied for :—

FIRST- AND SECOND-CLASS UNSURVEYED LAND.

Oroua-Coal Creek North Block.—Oroua County.—Apiti Survey District.

Bounded towards the north by the Feilding Special-settlement Block; towards the east by Coal Creek and Crown lands; towards the south by the Oroua-Coal Creek Block; and towards the west by the Oroua River.

This block is situated between the Oroua River and Coal Creek, and extends from that part of the Oroua-Coal Creek Block, already sold, northwards for four miles, to the Feilding Special-settlement Block. The area comprises generally broken and undulating hills, intersected by deep gullies, which merge into gorges, there being some small flats on the Oroua River and Coal Creek, and easy faces and flat tops of considerable size along the main ridge and western slopes towards the Oroua.

The block is fairly well watered, and is covered with heavy mixed bush and dense underscrub, including rimu, rata, hinau, maire, miro, rewarewa, and tawhero, totara and kahikatea occur in places; the undergrowth includes karamu, kotukutuku, makomako, rangiora, mahoe, kaiwhiria, houhou, and supplejacks. The formation is papa and sandstone, and the soil varies from fair to good, with some very good. The block is distant from Feilding (via the Kimbolton Road and Birmingham) about twenty-two miles, all of which is a dray-road—in fact, the road to the Feilding Special-settlement Block (which is formed 12ft. wide) passes through this block for two and a half miles, and it is also intended to continue for horse-traffic the road known as “London’s” to the main ridge road, and to construct it from thence northwards through the centre of the block to the Feilding Special-settlement Block, a sum of 3s. 6d. per acre having been added to the price of the land for this purpose. Horses can be got up the Oroua River-bed and Coal Creek. The north end of the block adjoins the cleared road-lines on the Feilding Special-settlement Block.

The country is from 900ft. to 1,700ft. above sea-level, and when brought into cultivation should prove well adapted for pastoral purposes.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Public Reserve for Lease.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” that the lease of the under-mentioned section will be offered at public auction, at Hunterville, on Saturday, the 12th March, 1892, at 10 a.m.

Plan and form of lease can be seen and particulars obtained at this office.

The term of the lease will be seven years.

No allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of improvements effected by the lessee.

A deposit of a half-year’s rent and £1 11s. lease-fee must be deposited on the fall of the hammer.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 207, Township of Hunterville; area, 1 acre; upset rent per annum, 10s.; term of lease, seven years.

This section is situated on the Ongo Road, in the Township of Hunterville, which is about sixteen miles from Marton, on the Murimotu Road, and the projected North Island Main Trunk Railway, and the trains now run past the township. Part of the section is in grass and the rest covered with manuka scrub, and it is partly flooded after heavy rain. A temporary fence has been put up round the section, except on the front, where a stab fence is erected; and there is a drain through the section for about two and a half chains. The quality of the land in Hunterville is generally very good.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Forfeited Deferred-payment Land.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of the Land Acts, that the under-mentioned section will be offered at auction, for selection on deferred payments, at Hunterville, on Saturday, the 12th March, 1892, at 10 a.m.

Particulars can be obtained at this office, and at the principal post-offices in the district.

A deposit of one-twentieth of the purchase-money, together with £1 1s. license-fee, must be deposited on the fall of the hammer, and the selector shall make the statutory declaration required under the deferred-payment system.

If there is no bid at the auction the section will be withdrawn till further notice.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 46, Block VII., Ongo District; area, 100 acres; upset price, £1 per acre.

The above is a section in the Sandon Small-farm Block, which is situated on the left bank of the Rangitikei River, about six miles from Hunterville in an easterly direction.

The section consists of undulating broken land, and there is a gorge running through part of it.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,