78 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 4

Rural Lands in the Wellington 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-sixth day of February, 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.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
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 thirteenth day of March, 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.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

All pastoral country more or less broken, heavily timbered with tawa, rata, rimu, tawai, and dense undergrowth; the soil is generally poor, resting upon a formation principally of papa, with shell-rock at intervals, and outcrops of sandstone. Streams are numerous, but run in deep gorges. Birch will be found on several of the spurs. The hills rise from 700 ft. to 1,200 ft. above the streams. Distance from Waitotara, from forty-seven to fifty miles via the Waitotara Valley Road, which has been opened for dray traffic to within about five miles of the Koane Road running through the block. Access may also be obtained from Eltham via the Rawhitiroa Road, distance from thirty-eight to forty-four and a quarter miles; eleven miles of this road have been metalled, another nine miles opened for dray traffic, the remainder has been opened as a bridle-road to its junction with the Waitotara Valley Road.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.