960
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 26

ling of rimus, and very thick undergrowth in gullies; formation principally granite. Accessible by branch road from the Motueka-Takaka main road, and by branch roads from Sandy Bay Road. Distant about ten miles from Motueka Post-office.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Auckland 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 seventeenth 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 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 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.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TAURANGA, WHAKATANE, AND ROTORUA COUNTIES.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks VII., VIII., X., XI. and XII., Waihi South Survey District; Blocks II., III., IV., VI., VII., VIII., and XII., Rotorua Survey District; and Blocks V. and IX., Rangitaiki Upper Survey District; containing by admeasurement 52,000 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north generally by part of the southern boundary and part of the eastern boundary of Tauranga County and by Small Grazing-run No. 10a; towards the east generally by Small Grazing-run No. 15, by Section No. 21 of the Parish of Matata, by Section No. 1 of Block IV., Rotorua Survey District, again by Section No. 21 aforesaid, and by Section No. 160 of the same parish, by a public road, by Section No. 168 of the Parish of Matata, by a road 100 links wide running along the western bank of the Tarawera River, by Sections Nos. 167 and 164 of the Parish of Matata, by a public road, and again by a road 100 links wide running along the western bank of the Tarawera River; towards the south generally by Sections Nos. 39a, 40, 41, and 42 of the Parish of Matata, and again by Section No. 39a aforesaid; towards the west and again towards the south by a State forest reserve and towards the west generally by a public road, by Small Grazing-run No. 14, and by the Waitahanui River to the point of commencement: save and except Sections Nos. 28a No. 2, 35, and 38 of the Parish of Matata from the area hereinbefore described.

Description of land: About 25,000 acres at north end of block mostly undulating and low hills, covered with fern, manuka, and scrub; pumice formation; soil fairly good in valleys: about 7,000 acres in south-eastern corner of block open, fern and manuka, mostly poor pumice hills, with patches of fair land in gullies, and some swamp towards the Tarawera River: balance of block covered with mixed forest, chiefly tawa and rimu, with some puriri, hinau, pukatea, rewarewa, matai, kohekohe, rata, and tanekaha; soil, pumice formation, generally of good quality; portions broken, but mostly low hills, with good flats in parts; well watered throughout. The block is situated from six to sixteen miles from Matata, and the southern portion is traversed by the Rotorua-Whakatane Road, and is also accessible by formed road nine miles from Matata.

Cash price, from 8s. to 25s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, from 4/8d. to 1s. 3d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, from 3/84d. to 1s. per acre per annum.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Town of Taupo (East Taupo County).

Block IX.: Lots 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, each 1 rood 4 perches; upset price, £5 10s. per lot.

Block XIV.: Lot 7, 1 rood 8 perches; upset price, £6. Lot 13, 1 rood 2 perches; upset price, £5 5s.

Block XVIII.: Lots 1 to 16 (inclusive), each 1 rood; upset price, £5 per lot.

Block XXI.: Lots 3 to 7 (inclusive), lots 11 to 15 (inclusive), (Museum endowments), each 1 rood; upset price, £5 per lot.

Block XXIV.: Lots 2 to 8 (inclusive), lots 10 to 16 (inclusive), each 1 rood; upset price, £5 per lot.

Block XXVII.: Lots 1 to 16 (inclusive), each 1 rood; upset price, £5 per lot.

Block XXVIII.: Lot 7, 1 rood 8 perches; upset price, £6. Lot 8, 1 rood 18 perches; upset price, £7 5s. Lots 9 to 14, each 1 rood; upset price, £5 per lot.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Southland Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Southland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, being Section No. 63, Block VIII., Campbelltown Hundred. Bounded towards the north by a public road, forming the northern boundary of Section No. 25 of said Block VIII., Campbelltown Hundred., 328·4 links; thence towards the east by a public road, forming the eastern boundary of said Section No. 25, 600 links; thence towards the south by said Section No. 25, 327·5 links; and thence towards the west by said Section No. 25, 621·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 48502, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red. For a public-school site.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.