June 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1123

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 eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred; 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.
Second-class Land.

Sections 1, 2, 3, Block VII., and 15, 16, Block VI., are all more or less rough ridges covered with light bush—manuka in the valleys, and tawa, tawhero, &c., on higher ground. On tops of ridges of eastern portion of Section 2 there is a little black-birch and tanekaha; main ridges 400 ft. to 500 ft. above valleys. Section 13, Block VI., is somewhat similar along frontage to Ohura Road; the western portion, however, is better, the ridges being lower and the bush consisting principally of tawa; this section also contains some old manuka clearing, being portion of the Native clearing called Tahora- paroa. Section 14 is similar to Section 13, but a little more broken if anything. The whole of the block is well watered, the formation being papa. The Ohura Road is formed as a dray-road 16 ft. wide up to the top of ridge near section- peg 13/14, and thence 8 ft. wide as far as the junction with Moki Road. The south-east corner of Section 17 is about fifty-four miles from Stratford and eleven miles and a half from the Whangamomona Township.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred.
WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Southland 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 seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred; 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.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Nearly all dense bush of mixed character—birch, matai, rimu, totara, with heavy underscrub; soil ranges from very fair to poor; parts of the country are undulating and parts broken, the altitude ranging from 150 ft. to 450 ft. Distant about seventeen miles from Otatau.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred.
WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.