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towards the north-east by a road-line, 839·8 links and 475·4 links; towards the south by a road-line, 1070·3 links; and towards the west by a road-line, 1122·1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin. For a public cemetery.

All that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres and 31 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 7 and 8, Block LIV., and Section No. 6, Block LV., Town of Lawrence. Bounded towards the north by Boundary Street; towards the east by Sections Nos. 1 and 6, Block LIV.; towards the south by Crown land and Section No. 5, Block LV.; and towards the north-west by Crown land. For a site for a drill-shed and Volunteer parade-ground.

All that area in the Land District of Otago, Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 183 acres and 11 perches, more or less, situate in Moeraki District, being Section No. 36, Block XI., on the map of the said district. Bounded towards the north-west by Section No. 45, 9500 links; towards the north-east by Section No. 10, 4658 links; and towards the south-east by a road-line and Section No. 18, 2528 links, also by Sections Nos. 21 and 23, 4953 links. For a public recreation-ground.

SOUTHLAND.

All that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Section No. 16, Block IV., Oteramika Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east and south-east by Section No. 9 of same block, 800 and 1250 links; towards the south-west by a road, 800 links; and towards the north-west by Section No. 10 of same block and the before-mentioned Section No. 9, 1250 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Invercargill. For a public-school site.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

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 thirty-first day of July, 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Section 1, chiefly open country, covered with fern, tea-tree, and raupo, contains a small patch of kahikatea bush; one-half of section swamp, balance flat and undulating; soil fair; situated about three miles from Otorohanga and Hangatiki Railway-stations. Section 4, open country, covered with fern and tea-tree; about one-fourth of area swamp, balance flat to undulating; soil fair; about two miles and a quarter from Hangatiki Railway-station and about four miles by road from Otorohanga Railway-station.

| Whangarei | Tauraroa* .. | E. 5 | .. | 33 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 12 7 6 | 0 4·5 | 0 6 3 | 0 3·6 | 0 5 0 |

Good soil; forest land. About twenty miles from Mangapai.

| Otamatea | Mareretu* .. | S.E. 120 | .. | 37 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 18 10 0 | 0 6 | 0 9 3 | 0 4·8 | 0 7 6 |
| " .. | " .. | N.W.121 | .. | 40 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 20 0 0 | 0 6 | 0 10 0 | 0 4·8 | 0 8 0 |

Very good land; mostly manuka, with a little open. Four miles from Mareretu.

| Mangonui | Whakapaku* | 8A | .. | 436 0 0 | 0 7 6 | 163 10 0 | 0 4·5 | 4 1 9 | 0 3·6 | 3 9 5 |
| " .. | " .. | 9 | .. | 456 0 0 | 0 6 0 | 136 16 0 | 0 3·6 | 3 8 5 | 0 2·88 | 2 14 9 |
| " .. | " .. | 9A | .. | 234 0 0 | 0 6 0 | 70 4 0 | 0 3·6 | 1 15 1 | 0 2·88 | 1 8 1 |

Section 8A, about 125 acres mixed forest, about 13 acres swamp, balance undulating fern and scrub; well watered. Section 9, about 68 acres mixed forest, containing puriri and taraire, balance open undulating land; inferior soil; well watered. Section 9A, about 58 acres mixed forest, puriri and taraire, balance undulating land, covered with fern and scrub; well watered. These sections are situated about ten miles from Totara Wharf, Whangaroa Harbour. Altitude, 400 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level.

| Hobson .. | Tutamoe .. | 3 | XIII. | 30 2 32 | 0 10 0 | 15 10 0 | 0 6 | 0 7 9 | 0 4·8 | 0 6 3 |
| " .. | " .. | 10 | " | 76 3 8 | 0 10 0 | 38 10 0 | 0 6 | 0 19 3 | 0 4·8 | 0 15 5 |
| " .. | " .. | 11 | " | 146 0 32 | 0 10 0 | 73 0 0 | 0 6 | 1 16 6 | 0 4·8 | 1 9 3 |
| " .. | " .. | 12 | " | 79 2 0 | 0 7 6 | 30 0 0 | 0 4·5 | 0 15 0 | 0 3·6 | 0 12 0 |

Sections 3, 10, and 11, chiefly open lands, with small clumps of bush. Section 12, open inferior land. About three miles from Kaihu Railway-station.

| Hobson .. | Te Kuri .. | 12 | I. | 235 0 24 | 0 6 0 | 70 10 0 | 0 3·6 | 1 15 3 | 0 2·88 | 1 8 3 |

Open fern land, undulating to broken, and well watered; sandy soil. About four miles from Tangaihi Post-office.

• Parish.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.