Rural Lands for Sale or Selection




1532 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 72

Rural Lands in the Auckland 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twentieth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-five; 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 land 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 price 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.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

B.of Islds | Kaeo
Open undulating pastoral land, with about 1 acre mixed bush; situated about seven miles from Kaeo Post-office.

B.of Islds | Omapere
Undulating pastoral land; one-third mixed forest, balance open fern land; volcanic soil; situated about seven miles
from Waimate North.

Mangonui | Hohoura East
Open land; on Hohoura Harbour.

Corom’del | Harataunga
Open and mixed forest land; on main road to Port Charles.

Raglan .. | Whaingaroa*
All broken forest land; about four miles from Raglan.

Whangarei | Otakairangi*
About one-third mixed forest, containing some kauri; balance fern and scrub land; situated about nine miles from
Kamo.

Rodney .. | Te Arai*
Section 1, about one-half raupo and rush swamp, and one-half open fern and tea-tree land. Section 2, a few acres
good bush land, balance covered with fern and tea-tree. Situated about nine miles from Mangawai.

Rodney .. | Te Arai*
Broken hills, with light bush in parts; balance open fern and tea-tree land, with some swamp; about six miles from
Mangawai.

Rodney .. | Te Arai*
Open and undulating clay land; about six miles from Wellsford.

Rodney .. | Pakiri
Open fern and tea-tree land; about four miles from Wellsford.

Rodney .. | Mangawhai*
Open clay lands; situated about four miles from Mangawhai.

Waikato | Whangamarino*
Swamp land, adjoining Village of Upper Rangiriri.

Whakat’ne | Waimana
Section 26, about 8 acres manuka, balance open fern land; soil good. Section 27, about 4 acres manuka, balance
open fern land; soil good. Both lots situated about nine miles in a direct line from Whakatane.

Mangonui | Whangape
Sections 18, 26, 30, 31, 51, 59, and 65, Block VII., and Sections 5 and 16, Block IX., hilly land, open and bush land.
Section 27, Block VII., bush land, hilly; about 14 acres cleared and grassed. Block IX., Section 4, broken bush land, with
house. Section 6, broken bush land. Section 8, bush land, partly improved; contains house, and part cleared and grassed.

  • Parish.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.



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🗺️ Rural Lands in Auckland Land District Open for Sale or Selection (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
18 September 1895
Land Sale, Selection, Auckland Land District, Rural Lands, Land Act
  • David, Earl of Glasgow, Governor
  • John McKenzie, Minister of Lands