2364
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 104

Rural Lands in the Marlborough 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 fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two; 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.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

All steep, broken hills, rocky and precipitous in places; nearly all light bush and scrub, with birch near the tops of the ridges; poor soil; not well watered; altitude, 100 ft. to 1,600 ft. Accessible only by boat in calm weather; thirty-six miles from Picton. Weighted with £41 10s., cost of survey.

All steep hills; nearly all birch bush; poor clay soil; no water; altitude, 1,200 ft. to 1,600 ft. There is no access to this section. Weighted with £10 13s., cost of survey.

All steep hills; about 20 acres birch bush, remainder scrub and open; poor clay soil; no water; altitude, 100 ft. to 1,200 ft. Accessible only by boat in calm weather; thirty-six miles from Picton.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Nelson 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-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two; 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.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Section 128A is, with the exception of a few acres at the south-west corner, all cleared and in grass, but the great bulk of Section 130 is still in standing forest. There is nearly one mile and three-quarters of fencing on the property, inclusive of the boundary-fence between Sections 128 and 66, which is not in good order; most of the remainder is wire fencing, almost new. The land is situated on the Stanley Brook-Wakefield Road, about four miles and a half from the Wakefield Railway-station. These sections are weighted with the sum of £290, value of improvements.

Situated about half a mile from the sea-coast at Sandfly Bay, on the western shore of Blind Bay, about four miles north of Astrolabe Roadstead. Hilly bush country, accessible by sea.

Low hills, covered with manuka, known as the Moutere Hills.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.