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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

Section 11: All forest, pastoral country, very rough and broken, mostly black-birch razorback ridges, from 500ft. to 1,800ft. above sea-level. Well watered. About 10 acres flat land along Pokeka Stream, very much cut up by gutters. Formation is papa and sandstone. The timber is mostly black-birch, tawa, rimu, rata, and tawhero. No road-access at present, which will be by the Pokeka Valley Road.

Section 12: All forest, pastoral country, very rough and broken, mostly razorback black-birch ridges, from 250ft. to 1,700ft. above sea-level. Well watered. No flat land. Formation is papa, sandstone, and shell-rock. The timber is mostly black-birch, tawa, rimu, rata, and tawhero. Access by the Waitotara Valley Road, which is formed 6ft. wide.

General Description.

The Rawhitiroa Block is a very rough one, rising from 250ft. above sea-level on the Waitotara River to 2,000ft. near Puteore Trig. The whole block is very much cut up with slips and gutters, and, when cleared, will only be suitable for grazing sheep. All the sections are well watered. At present the only access is along the Waitotara Valley Road, which is formed as a horse-road 6ft. wide. The Waitotara River is navigable for canoes from the mouth of the Rotokohu Stream to the junction of the Omaru with the Waitotara River. The general grade of the road-lines is from 1 in 20 to 1 in 40. The last mile of the Pokeka Road rises 1 in 15, which is the steepest grade on the block. The formation of the valley of the Pokeka is papa and sandstone, that of the Omaru Valley is papa, sandstone, and shell-rock.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Timber and Lease of Town Lands by Public Auction, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 1st August, 1896.

THE under-mentioned timber in the Tautane Survey District will be offered for sale, and the under-mentioned sections in the Township of Ormondville will be offered for lease, by public auction, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on Wednesday, the 30th September, 1896.

SALE OF TIMBER.

Section 13, Block V., Tautane Survey District.

Terms of Sale.—The purchaser shall pay 50 per cent. of the purchase-money on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days from the date of sale. He shall have the sole use of the land, and the right to cut and remove all timber thereon, during a period of three years from the same date.

FOR LEASE.

Ormondville Town.

Conditions of Lease.—The leases shall be for a term of five years, commencing from the 1st January, 1897. The successful bidder at the auction shall pay one year’s rent on the fall of the hammer. No compensation shall be allowed, nor shall any be claimed, at the termination of the lease, for any improvements effected on the land during the term of lease.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

Native Land Court Office, Gisborne, 1st September, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Native Appellate Court will sit at Te Wairoa on the 7th day of October, 1896, to hear and determine the appeals from the decisions of the Native Land Court set forth in the Schedule hereto. All persons interested in the said applications are hereby notified to attend at the time and place aforesaid.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

[Gisborne, 96-41.]

SCHEDULE.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1886.”—Ngamotu Block Rehearing.

Native Land Court Office, Gisborne, 1st September, 1896.

In the matter of a decision of the Court made the 31st day of August, 1892, upon the hearing of a claim for the investigation of the title to Ngamotu Block, and of an application by Reti Kaukau and others for a rehearing, made to this Court within three months of the said decision.

WHEREAS upon inquiry in open Court before the Chief Judge of the said Court, assisted by an Assessor, it was ordered on the 10th day of May, 1894, that a rehearing upon such claim be had as to the whole land, except as to so much of the said decision as disposes of the claim of exclusive ownership by the owners of Ohuia No. 2 Block :

Notice is hereby given that a sitting of the Court will be held at Te Wairoa on the 7th day of October, 1896, for the purpose of rehearing the said claim.

[Gisborne, 96-42.]

JOHN BROOKING, Registrar.