New Zealand Gazette – 1898 – No. 42

Page 939

✨ Rural Land Sales

JUNE 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 939

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.
				A. R. P.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	s. d.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	4	XIII.	354 0 0	0 7 6	132 15 0	0 4·5
Broken and undulating land; about one-third swamp, remainder mixed forest and open land,
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	5	XIII.	422 0 0	0 7 6	158 5 0	0 4·5
Nearly all swamp; 20 acres forest.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	6	XIII.	356 0 0	0 7 6	133 10 0	0 4·5
70 acres swamp, balance inferior land; covered with fern and scrub.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	7	XIII.	233 0 0	0 7 6	87 7 6	0 4·5
Half swamp, balance indifferent land.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	8	XIII.	392 0 0	0 7 6	147 0 0	0 4·5
Half swamp; 20 acres bush, remainder broken and undulating inferior land, covered with fern and tea-tree; well watered.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	9	XIII.	289 0 0	0 10 0	144 10 0	0 6
Broken and undulating; 40 acres forest, balance fern and manuka scrub; soil fair; well watered.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	10	XIII.	269 0 0	0 10 0	134 10 0	0 6
Broken and undulating; 30 acres mixed forest, remainder covered with fern and tea-tree; soil fair; well watered.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	11	XIII.	92 0 0	0 7 6	34 10 0	0 4·5
Broken inferior land, covered with fern and scrub; well watered.
Raglan ..	Maramarua ..	12	XIII.	100 0 0	0 10 0	50 0 0	0 6
" ..	Rangiriri ..	1	I.	}
About 80 acres bush; mostly swampy on banks of Opuatia Stream, remainder open; fair soil.

These sections are distant four to eight miles from Churchill, ten to fifteen miles from Mercer, and one to six miles from Duncan’s Landing, on the Opuatia River.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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

RANFURLY, 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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; 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 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.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

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.
				A. R. P.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	s. d.
Clifton ..	Upper Waitara	9	II.	140 0 0	1 12 6	227 10 0	1 7·5
Weighted with £209, valuation for improvements. Frontage slightly rough, two deep gullies running across; good soil; papa formation; well watered; about half in grass, remainder bush. Access by bridle-track from Uruti; dray-road to within two miles of section.
Clifton ..	Upper Waitara	10	II.	135 0 0	1 10 0	202 10 0	1 6
Weighted with £327 19s. 2d., valuation for improvements. About half frontage steep, the remainder good; one side of section cut up by broken gullies; deep gully across middle of section. Soil good; papa formation; well watered. Access by bridle-track from Uruti; dray-road to within about two miles of section. All in grass except 5 acres.
Clifton ..	Upper Waitara	13	II.	179 0 0	1 12 6	290 17 6	1 7·5
Weighted with £368 18s., valuation for improvements. Even land, not much broken; good frontage; back part of section rough, about 20 acres, and covered with bush; balance of section in grass; good soil; papa formation; well watered. Access by bridle-track from Uruti, and about two miles off a dray-road.
Clifton ..	Upper Waitara	14	II.	196 0 0	1 10 0	294 0 0	1 6
Weighted with £518 14s. 6d., valuation for improvements. Fairly even section; good frontage; a small portion at back rough; all in grass except about 6 acres; good soil; papa formation; well watered. Access by bridle-road from Uruti; dray-road to within about two miles of section.
Clifton ..	Upper Waitara	15	II.	190 0 0	1 7 6	261 5 0	1 4·5
Weighted with £316 12s. 6d., valuation for improvements. Bad frontage; about 10 acres of hill on back of section not worth felling; 100 acres felled and grassed; two rough gullies running through section; good soil; papa formation; well watered. Access by bridle-road from Uruti, and about two miles from dray-road.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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