Sept. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1235

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

GLASGOW, 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, David, Earl of Glasgow, 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 not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 7 | IX. | 280 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 406 0 0 | 1 16 3 | 18 2 6 | 0 1 5½ | 10 3 0
All heavy forest; about one-third lies low and in places is wet, remainder low flat hills of good quality; well watered.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 1 | X. | 307 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 445 3 0 | 1 16 3 | 19 17 6 | 0 1 5½ | 11 2 7
All heavy forest; hills low, probably a third almost level and dry, except where portions are temporarily flooded in very wet weather from the outflow of the Mohakau Stream; soil very good.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 2 | X. | 390 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 565 10 0 | 1 16 3 | 25 4 11 | 0 1 5½ | 14 2 9
All heavy forest; broad rolling hills of very easy slopes; very little, if any, level ground; chiefly pastoral land.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 5 | X. | 313 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 453 17 0 | 1 16 3 | 20 5 3 | 0 1 5½ | 11 6 11
All forest; about fifty acres level, but low lying and moist, hills low; good soil.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 6 | X. | 283 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 410 7 0 | 1 16 3 | 18 6 5 | 0 1 5½ | 10 5 3
All heavy forest; about thirty acres of low-lying moist land, but drainable, remainder hilly, with good slopes; soil good.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 8 | X. | 272 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 394 8 0 | 1 16 3 | 17 12 2 | 0 1 5½ | 9 17 3
All heavy forest; about thirty acres level, low lying and moist, remainder rolling low hills; soil good.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 11 | X. | 263 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 381 7 0 | 1 16 3 | 17 0 7 | 0 1 5½ | 9 10 9
All heavy forest; partly broken, soil good; homestead-sites at south-east corner.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 12 | X. | 295 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 427 15 0 | 1 16 3 | 19 1 11 | 0 1 5½ | 10 13 11
All heavy forest; good hills for some distance back from road, more broken at the back.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 13 | X. | 332 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 481 8 0 | 1 16 3 | 21 9 10 | 0 1 5½ | 12 0 9
All heavy forest; good hills, with heads of small valleys; soil good.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 14 | X. | 311 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 450 19 0 | 1 16 3 | 20 2 8 | 0 1 5½ | 11 5 6
All heavy forest; low hills, with heads of valleys wider than in Section 13.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 16 | X. | 330 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 478 10 0 | 1 16 3 | 21 7 3 | 0 1 5½ | 11 19 3
All heavy forest; generally broken; one or two narrow valleys run into it from the East Road; soil good. Choice of homestead-sites.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 1 | XI. | 62 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 139 10 0 | 2 16 3 | 6 4 7 | 0 2 3 | 3 9 9
All heavy forest; very good section, but very little actually level land.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 2 | XI. | 88 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 198 0 0 | 2 16 3 | 8 16 9 | 0 2 3 | 4 19 0
All heavy forest; good section, but very little level land.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 3 | XI. | 87 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 195 15 0 | 2 16 3 | 8 14 9 | 0 2 3 | 4 17 11
All heavy forest; hills low and good; one or two valleys, but very narrow; well watered.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 4 | XI. | 145 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 326 5 0 | 2 16 3 | 14 11 4 | 0 2 3 | 8 3 2

" ..| " .. | 5 | " | 130 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 292 10 0 | 2 16 3 | 13 1 2 | 0 2 3 | 7 6 3

" ..| " .. | 6 | " | 120 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 270 0 0 | 2 16 3 | 12 1 1 | 0 2 3 | 6 15 0
All heavy forest; for the most part low and wet.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 8 | XI. | 140 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 315 0 0 | 2 16 3 | 14 1 3 | 0 2 3 | 7 17 6
All heavy forest; good land, rather rough at the back.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 9 | XI. | 254 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 571 10 0 | 2 16 3 | 25 10 3 | 0 2 3 | 14 5 9
All forest; some level land, hills low with good slopes; soil good.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 10 | XI. | 348 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 783 0 0 | 2 16 3 | 34 19 1 | 0 2 3 | 19 11 6
All forest; some level land. Kirai Road runs through a pleasant little valley, in which are traces of old Maori kaingas.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 11 | XI. | 235 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 340 15 0 | 1 16 3 | 15 4 3 | 0 1 5½ | 8 10 5
All forest; some level land, similar to Section 10.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 13 | XI. | 328 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 475 12 0 | 1 16 3 | 21 4 8 | 0 1 5½ | 11 17 10
All forest; about half the section is very good, remainder broken, some of the hills being rather steep.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 3 | X. | 177 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 256 13 0 | 1 16 3 | 11 9 2 | 0 1 5½ | 6 8 4
All heavy forest; broken, good soil; available for depasturing sheep.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 7 | X. | 302 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 437 18 0 | 1 16 3 | 19 11 0 | 0 1 5½ | 10 18 11

" ..| " .. | 9 | " | 488 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 707 12 0 | 1 16 3 | 31 11 9 | 0 1 5½ | 17 13 10

" ..| " .. | 10 | " | 312 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 452 8 0 | 1 16 3 | 20 3 11 | 0 1 5½ | 6 6 2
All heavy forest; a good deal broken, but all available for depasturing sheep.

Stratford ..| Ngatimaru .. | 15 | X. | 270 0 0 | 1 9 0 | 391 10 0 | 1 16 3 | 17 9 7 | 0 1 5½ | 9 15 9
All heavy forest; very broken. Difficult to get homestead-sites.

This block is situate twenty-one miles and eleven chains from Stratford by the East Road, which is all under contract as a cart-road; about nineteen miles have been formed, and the first three miles metalled. The whole of the block is good land, being papa or blue-clay formation. The average height of the central ridge above the Mangaotuku and Mahakau Valleys is about 450ft.; the leading spurs which trend thence towards those valleys descend with unusual regularity in Sections 1 and 5, Block X. The predominant timber is tawa, with some very good rimu in moderate quantity scattered throughout, also a little totara and maire; on the low-lying moist and wet ground white-pine (kahikatea) grows, sometimes in thick clumps; a very little black-birch will be found on the tops of some of the highest hills, also a little tawhero. A sum of money has been included in the price to cover cost of roading without metalling. It is proposed to make the East Road a cart-road, and the Akama and Kirai roads, and the Mohakau (as far as the western corner of Section 11, Block X.), as bridle-tracks.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.