APRIL 9. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 959

Rural Land in the Hawke's Bay 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 land described in the Schedule hereto
shall be open for sale or selection on and after the tenth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three; and
also that the land 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 sup-
posed 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 land shall be sold, occupied,
or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do
declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased
under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act,
1892.”

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
WAIAPO COUNTY.
Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, situated
in Blocks IX., X., XIII., XIV., and XV., Hikurangi Survey
District, and Blocks I. and II., Tutamoe Survey District,
containing by admeasurement 16,350 acres, more or less.
Bounded towards the north generally by State Forest Re-
serve, Mangaokura and Waingata Streams; towards the east
generally by Waingata Stream, and by Section 3, Block XV.,
Hikurangi Survey District; towards the south generally by
portions of Hauturu and Huiarua Blocks Nos. 2 and 3;
and towards the west generally by Mangawaru No. 2 Block.
Description of land: This block is situated in the Hiku-
rangi and Tutamoe Survey Districts, and is portion of the
Waitahaia and Mangawaru No. 2 Blocks. The distance of
the nearest point of this block from Waipiro Bay, the nearest
shipping-place, is about twenty-seven miles, fifteen of which
are by formed dray-road, eight by pack-track, and the
balance is unformed. About 6,000 acres of the south-east
portion of the Waitahaia Block is of clay-and-papa forma-
tion, covered by tawa, rimu, and other pines, and light bush;
the balance is chiefly rough broken ridges and spurs covered
with birch on the tops, and tawa pines, &c., on the lower
slopes. The soil is good in the south-eastern portion of the
block, and fairly good over the remainder, except on the
ridges, where it is poor. The block is well watered, and the
elevation above sea-level is from 1,200 ft. to 3,000 ft.
Cash price, from 10s. to £1 3s. 6d per acre; occupation
with right of purchase, 6d. to 1s. 2½d. per acre per annum;
lease in perpetuity, 4·8d. to 11·28d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this first day of April, one thousand nine hun-
dred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Nelson Land District open for Selection
on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 selection on and after the
seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and
three; and that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule
may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance
with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one
of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain,
metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix
the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as men-
tioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the
said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provi-
sions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Mining Act,
1898,” and amendments.

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Lease in Perpetuity:
Rent, 4 per Cent.

Section I has about 160 acres burnt bush, rather steep;
remainder nearly flat, covered with birch, rimu, and kahi-
ātea; formation granite. Section 2 has about 16 acres
burnt bush, and about 35 acres flat or gentle slopes, re-
minder similar to Section 1. Section 41 has about 35 acres
burnt bush, and about 50 acres flat land covered with birch,
rimu, and pine timber, remainder steep; formation sand-
stone and marl. Section 53 has about 25 acres burnt bush,
and 45 acres flat land, remainder good slopes, with a con-
siderable amount of milling-timber. The remaining sec-
tions are generally undulating easy slopes, with some small
flats along the creeks, the bush consisting of birch, rimu, and
some pine; altitude from 700 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level.
All these sections are accessible by unformed roads up the
Sherry River and its branches, and up Slippery Creek, and
are distant from one mile to two miles and a half from ends
of formed roads, and about five miles from the Sherry Post-
office.

Inangahua County.—Tutaki Survey District.

| 3 | II. | 158 0 0 | 0 4·08 | 1 6 10 |
| 4 | " | 97 0 0 | 0 4·08 | 0 16 6 |
| 5 | " | 82 0 0 | 0 3·6 | 0 12 4 |

Hilly, broken country; heavy bush, chiefly birch, with a
few rimus; 700 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level. Access by
unformed roads. Distant about one mile and a half from
Murchison Post-office.

| 7 | VI. | 104 0 0 | 0 4·08 | 0 17 8 |
| 8 | " | 41 0 0 | 0 4·08 | 0 7 0 |
| 9 | " | 170 0 0 | 0 4·08 | 1 8 11 |
| 10 | " | 94 0 0 | 0 4·08 | 0 16 0 |
| 11 | " | 48 0 0 | 0 4·32 | 0 8 8 |
| 12 | " | 48 0 0 | 0 4·32 | 0 8 8 |
| 13 | " | 127 0 0 | 0 3·36 | 0 17 9 |

Sections 7 to 13 are all rough broken country, varying
from 700 ft. to 1,800 ft. above sea-level, covered with heavy
bush, chiefly birch, with a few rimus, and are from 25 chains
to 35 chains back from the Matakitaiki Road. Distant from
three miles to five miles from Murchison Post-office.

| 1 | X. | 147 0 0 | 0 3·36 | 1 0 7 |

Broken hilly country, covered with heavy bush, chiefly
birch with a little rimu; from 800 ft. to 2,200 ft. above sea-
level. Accessible by unformed road. About one mile from
Matakitaiki main road, and about six miles from Murchison
Post-office.

UNSURVEYED SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimea County.—Tadmor Survey District.

| .. | VI., X., XL, XIV., XV. | 10,500 0 0 | 0 3·36 | .. |

All low hills and gullies, with a few small flats in the
creeks; covered with bush, principally birch, with a little
rimu; formation, sandstone gravels. Access by unformed
roads up the River Sherry and the various branches of the
River Tadmor, and by the main coach-road to Reefton.
This block is distant generally from fifteen miles to twenty
miles from the proposed railway terminus in Tadmor
Valley.

Waimea County.—Kaiteriteri Survey District.

| .. | IV., V., VII., VIII. | 3,000 0 0 | 0 2·88 | .. |

About a quarter open fern and manuka hills, remainder
rough hills covered with bush, chiefly birch with a sprink-