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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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.

Unsurveyed Land.—Auckland Land District.—Rodney County.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Tauhoa, and containing approximately 2,650 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 176 of the Parish of Tauhoa; towards the north-east by a public road and by Section No. 201 of the Parish of Tauhoa aforesaid; towards the south-east generally by Sections Nos. 96, 97, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, and 111 of the Parish of Komokoriki; towards the west by the Mataia Block; and towards the north and again towards the west by a forest reserve to the point of commencement.

All very broken forest land, well watered, sandstone and clay soil; situated near mouth of Hoteo River, close to West Coast Road, being about eighteen miles north of Helensville and twelve miles from Warkworth.

Cash price, 10s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 6d. per acre; lease in perpetuity, 4·8d. per acre.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Wellington 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" (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 land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than thirty 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.

Wellington Land District.

First-class Land.

Patea .. | Omahine .. | 1 | I. | 455 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 568 15 0 | 0 1 3 | 14 4 4 | 0 1 0 | 11 7 6

This section is on the Weraweraonga Road, and adjoins the provincial boundary. It is distant about fifteen miles from the Waitotara township, and roads are formed to within one and a half miles of it, the section being increased in price to assist in making the same. The soil is deep on the flats, but light on the ridges, on a papa formation, and is hilly and undulating, with birch spurs towards the provincial boundary, and well watered throughout. The timber, which is heavy, consists of rata, rimu, birch, &c., with an occasional totara. The elevation varies from 300ft. to 1,000ft.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Wellington 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" (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 thirty 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.

Wellington Land District.

First-class Land.

Patea .. | Momahaki .. | 4 | V. | 300 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 375 0 0 | 1 3 | 9 7 6 | 1 0 | 7 10 0

Second-class Land.

Patea .. | Momahaki .. | 3 | V. | 226 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 226 0 0 | 1 0 | 5 13 0 | 0 9·6 | 4 1 0

These sections are situated in the Waitotara Valley, and are distant about twenty-three miles from Waitotara Township, access from which is by a dray-road for about thirteen miles towards the Maungahawa Lake; from this point a horse-road is made for another eight miles to the Waitotara River, and the balance of the road, which will be in the Waitotara Valley, is now in course of construction, the sections being increased in price to assist in making the same. The land is undulating and hilly, with sufficient level for homestead purposes; the soil varies from fair to good, is of a papa formation, and covered with forest consisting of birch on the ridges with tawa, hinau, &c., elsewhere, and the usual undergrowth.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.