New Zealand Gazette – 1893 – No. 68

Page 1329

✨ Rural Lands for Sale or Selection



Sept. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1329

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—continued.

County. District. Section. Block. Area. Cash Price Occupation with Right of Purchase: Rent, 5 per Cent. Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 4 per Cent.
Per Acre. Total Price. Rent per Acre.
Whanga- Hukerenui 13 XIII. 508 0 0 0 10 0 254 0 0 0 6
rei
Good clay soil, of sandy formation, well watered, and covered with heavy mixed forest containing totara and a few scattered kauri trees.
Whanga- Otakairangi 16 XVI. 230 3 28 0 15 0 173 5 0 0 9
rei
Ditto " 17 " 241 1 25 0 15 0 180 15 0
Section 16, undulating forest land of good quality. Section 17, about 20 acres open, balance heavy forest. The section is undulating and of good quality; situated about seven miles from Kamo.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor this first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Hawke's Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," 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 on and after the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

County. District. Section. Block. Area. Cash Price. Occupation with Right of Purchase: Rent, 5 per Cent. Lease in Perpetuity: Rent, 4 per Cent.
Per Acre. Total Price. Rent per Acre.
Cook Hangaroa { 3 IV. } 1,750 0 0 0 12 6 1,093 15 0 0 7·5
{ 20 VIII. }
The section is two-thirds bush, the balance being dense scrub and large manuka; steep slopes to river; soil fair; small flats along river; good grazing-country.
Cook Hangaroa { 1 VII. } 868 0 0 0 12 6 542 10 0 0 7·5
{ 19 VIII. }
About 80 acres fronting river is fairly level and covered with high manuka; balance is bush, consisting of matai, hinau, and a few totara trees; steep country; soil on levels light, and on the slopes good.
Cook Hangaroa 18 VIII. 747 0 0 0 15 0 560 5 0 0 9
Light bush on section; scrub and manuka on slopes near river; small pine and totara bush in bend of river; soil very good; steep country.
The block is accessible by dray-road from Gisborne, within four miles of the Hangaroa Village, and thence by a 4ft. pack-track to the river. A sum of money will be expended in opening up with roads these sections and the adjoining small grazing-runs.
Waipu Mata { 2 I. } 1,525 0 0 0 8 6 648 2 6 0 5·1
{ 2 V. }
The section is hilly broken country, covered with mixed timber, containing a little totara; well watered; distant about fourteen miles from Waipiro. A sum of money is about to be expended in improving the means of access to the section.
Waipu Mata 4 V. 1,086 0 0 0 10 6 570 3 0 0 6·3
Rough broken country, but fair pastoral land; well watered; distant sixteen miles from Waipiro; the section is covered with mixed timber containing a little totara. A sum of money is about to be expended in improving the means of access to the section.
Cook Nuhaka North 4 XI. 777 0 0 0 14 0 543 18 0 0 8·4
Undulating country; soil fairly good; covered with mixed timber, consisting of rimu, rata, and a little totara; well watered; distant thirty-one miles from Gisborne, and twelve miles from Nuhaka. A sum of money is about to be expended in improving the means of access to the section.
Wairoa Mohaka 3 VII. 223 0 0 0 12 6 139 7 6 0 7·5
About 180 acres are covered with very light bush and manuka scrub, the remaining 43 acres being fern country and gently sloping pastoral land; well watered; the surface-soil is of fair quality, being of a black loamy nature mixed with light pumice sand; papa subsoil; about twelve miles from Mohaka Ferry, the first four miles being open for dray-traffic, the remainder a pack-track only.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.


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