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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 24

Rural Lands in the Westland 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 April, one thousand nine hundred and one; 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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 919 | XVI. | 293 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 293 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 6 6 | 0 9.6 | 5 17 2

Nearly all very good scrub land; soil 2 ft. to 4 ft. deep; excellent for grass; about 10 acres swamp, easily drained. Adjoins Dairy Factory and School Reserves.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 920 | XVI. | 271 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 338 15 0 | 1 3 | 8 9 5 | 1 0 | 6 15 6

All good scrub land; rich brown soil, 2 ft. to 4 ft. deep; belt of valuable red- and black-pine along river-bank; well watered by permanent creeks.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 921 | XVI. | 229 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 286 5 0 | 1 3 | 7 3 2 | 1 0 | 5 14 6

Excellent scrub land; belt of very fine red- and black-pine on river-bank; very open and easily grassed; permanent creeks in section.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 922 | XVI. | 260 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 325 0 0 | 1 3 | 8 2 6 | 1 0 | 6 10 0

All scrub land; deep rich soil; belt of black- and white-pine along river-bank.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 923 | XVI. | 274 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 411 0 0 | 1 6 | 10 5 6 | 1 2.4 | 8 4 5

All scrub land; deep red soil; belt of heavy timber along river. Splendid section.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 925 | XII. | 265 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 265 0 0 | 1 0 | 6 12 6 | 0 9.6 | 5 6 0

About half the area light scrub, remainder white- and red-pine; also undulating terrace-land, gently sloping and well adapted for grass; section well watered.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 926 | XII. | 260 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 260 0 0 | 1 0 | 6 10 0 | 0 9.6 | 5 4 0

About 200 acres excellent scrub land, the remainder open pines, black and red; also terrace admirably adapted for grass. Joins Dairy Factory Reserve.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 927 | XVI. | 300 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 300 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 10 0 | 0 9.6 | 6 0 0

About 250 acres excellent scrub land; flat, rich soil, well watered; 50 acres on gently sloping terrace; excellent building- and fencing-timber.

Westland .. | Totara .. | 928 | XIII. | 273 0 0 | 1 5 0 | 341 5 0 | 1 3 | 8 10 8 | 1 0 | 6 16 6

Excellent scrub land; rich red soil; ribbonwood and vines mostly; about 50 acres terrace-land, well adapted for cattle; well watered. Adjoins School Reserve.

Westland .. | Totara .. | 929 | XIII. | 287 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 430 10 0 | 1 6 | 10 15 3 | 1 2.4 | 8 12 2

All scrub land; deep rich soil; well watered; valuable building-timber on terrace at back of section.

Westland .. | Totara .. | 930 | XIII. | 270 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 405 0 0 | 1 6 | 10 2 6 | 1 2.4 | 8 2 0

Rich deep red soil; all scrub, ribbonwood, and vines; will burn clean off; nicely watered; good fencing- and building-timber on terrace at back.

Westland .. | Totara .. | 931 | XIII. | 228 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 342 0 0 | 1 6 | 8 11 0 | 1 2.4 | 6 16 10

Precisely similar to Section 930 ; a very fine piece of land.

Westland .. | Whitcombe Pass | 932 | I. | 281 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 421 10 0 | 1 6 | 10 10 9 | 1 2.4 | 8 8 7

Very rich red soil; 5 ft. deep to gravel; ribbonwood and vines; very open, and intersected with patches of open pakihi laid down in English grass; well watered; on road-frontage there is an area of 18 acres recently cleared and laid down in English grass.

Westland .. | Whitcombe Pass | 933 | I. | 418 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 627 0 0 | 1 6 | 15 13 6 | 1 2.4 | 12 10 10

All very rich red soil, lightly timbered with ribbonwood and vines; about 30 acres cleared some years ago, and now in excellent English grass; soil in many places 5 ft. deep.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Westland .. | Waitaha .. | 918 | XII. | 361 0 0 | 0 17 6 | 315 17 6 | 0 11 | 7 17 11 | 0 8.4 | 6 6 4

Mostly fairly good land, in many places 5 ft. deep to gravel; covered with scrub about 9 ft. high; belt of black- and white-pine along river-bank; creeks all gravel bottom, with very heavy fall; swamp-land easily drained into river; land all level, very easily cleared.

Fifteen sections, Blocks XII. and XVI., Waitaha, IX. and XIII., Totara, and I., Whitcombe Pass Survey Districts. Mostly all good agricultural land; access by Main South Road and Waitaha River bed; sections well watered, generally covered with black and yellow scrub, very easily cleared, interspersed with belts of totara, black-, red-, and white-pine valuable for building and fencing purposes. Situated about four miles from sea-beach and sixteen miles from Township of Ross; lying at an elevation of from 51 ft. to 240 ft. above sea level. The small areas of swamp shown on plan can be very easily and cheaply drained, as all creeks running through them have a very great fall; the soil in such swamps is deep and rich. A dray-road 12 ft. in width will shortly be constructed through the centre of the block, each section having frontage to the same.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine nine hundred and one.

C. H. MILLS,

For Minister of Lands.