1868

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81]

Rural Lands in the Hawke’s Bay 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 seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; 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.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waiapu .. | Waiapu .. | 3 | I. | 135 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 136 0 0 | 1 0 | 3 8 0 | 0 9·6 | 2 14 5
Good pastoral land; altitude, 150 ft. to 800 ft.; covered with light bush, consisting of rangiora, mapu, and other light scrub. Accessible by road up the Maraehara River.

Waiapu .. | Waiapu .. | 3 | V. | 459 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 460 0 0 | 1 0 | 11 10 0 | 0 9·6 | 9 4 0
Good grazing land; altitude, 250 ft. to 870 ft.; about 160 acres fern country, the remainder covered with tawa bush. Accessible by bridle-track from the Waiapu–Hicks Bay Road.

Waiapu .. | Waiapu .. | 4 | V. | 478 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 478 0 0 | 1 0 | 11 19 0 | 0 9·6 | 9 11 2
Good pastoral country; altitude, 150 ft. to 800 ft.; about 35 acres fern, the balance bush, principally tawa, rimu, matai and manuka. Accessible by road reserve up the Poroporo River.

Waiapu .. | Waiapu .. | 5 | V. | 82 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 83 0 0 | 1 0 | 2 1 6 | 0 9·6 | 1 13 3
Good pastoral land; altitude, 100 ft. to 650 ft.; about 25 acres open fern country, the remainder being covered with bush, principally tawa, rimu, and a little puriri. Access by road reserve up the Poroporo River.

Waiapu .. | Mangaoporo | 4 | III. | 511 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 511 0 0 | 1 0 | 12 15 6 | 0 9·6 | 10 4 5
Undulating and hilly country, the altitude varying from 200 ft. to 1,600 ft.; good pastoral land, covered with mixed bush, principally tawa, rimu, and a few totara. Accessible by road reserve up the Maraehara River.

Waiapu .. | Mangaoporo | 6 | IV. | 490 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 491 0 0 | 1 0 | 12 5 6 | 0 9·6 | 9 16 5
Hilly pastoral country, with an altitude of 800 ft.; covered with mixed bush, principally tawa, rimu, and whinau. Access is obtained by a road reserve up the Maraehara River.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waiapu .. | Waiapu .. | 4 | I. | 1,017 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1,017 0 0 | 1 0 | 25 8 6 | 0 9·6 | 20 6 9
Good undulating country, with about 20 acres fern, the remainder being bush, principally tawa, rimu, manuka, and light scrub along river. Accessible by pack-track from Awanui, ten miles distant, also by pack-track up Maraehara River and by dray-road as far as junction of Mangaotawhito Road.

Waiapu .. | Waiapu .. | 5 | I. | 1,019 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1,019 0 0 | 1 0 | 25 9 6 | 0 9·6 | 20 7 7
Good broken country, with about 50 acres fern, the balance being bush, principally tawa, matai, rimu, manuka, and light scrub along river. Access same as Section 4.

Waiapu .. | Mangaoporo | 5 | III. | 1,266 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1,266 0 0 | 1 0 | 31 13 0 | 0 9·6 | 25 6 5
Broken and hilly pastoral country; altitude, from 200 ft. to 1,600 ft.; covered with mixed bush consisting of tawa, rimu, and a few totara. Access is obtained by the road reserve up the Maraehara River.

Waiapu .. | Mangaoporo | 3 | VIII. | 850 3 0 | 1 0 0 | 851 0 0 | 1 0 | 21 5 6 | 0 9·6 | 17 0 5
Good pastoral land; undulating and hilly; altitude, 150 ft. to 700 ft.; about 300 acres fern, the remainder being mixed bush, consisting principally of tawa, with manuka and hoahoa. Access by road reserve up the Poroporo River.

Waiapu .. | Matakaoa.. | 2 | XIV. | 1,363 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 511 2 6 | 0 4·5 | 12 15 6 | 0 3·6 | 10 4 5
Undulating and hilly country, covered with mixed bush consisting of tawa, rimu, and rata; good pastoral land, accessible by the road reserve up the Kopuapounamu River. Distant about five miles from Te Araroa Post-office.

Waiapu .. | Matakaoa.. | 1 | XV. | 1,093 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1,093 0 0 | 1 0 | 27 6 6 | 0 9·6 | 21 17 2
Undulating and hilly pastoral country; altitude, from 200 ft. to 2,700 ft.; covered with mixed bush, principally tawa, rimu, and a little totara. Access is obtained by road up the bed of Kopuapounamu River.

Waiapu .. | Matakaoa.. | 2 | XV. | 1,126 3 31 | 1 0 0 | 1,127 0 0 | 1 0 | 28 3 6 | 0 9·6 | 22 10 9
Undulating and hilly country; altitude, from 200 ft. to 1,000 ft.; good pastoral land, covered with mixed bush, principally tawa, rimu, and a little totara. Accessible by road up bed of Kopuapounamu River. Distant five miles from Te Araroa Post-office.

Waiapu .. | Mangaoporo | 5 | IV. | 1,151 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 1,152 0 0 | 1 0 | 28 16 0 | 0 9·6 | 23 0 10
Undulating and hilly country; altitude, 100 ft. to 700 ft.; good pastoral land, covered with mixed bush, principally tawa and rimu. Access by road reserve up Maraehara River.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.