Jan. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 91

Rural Lands 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 lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three; 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.

First-class Land.

Sections 1 and 2: Altitude 600 ft. above sea-level; heavy bush land except 10 acres of swamp in Section 2; one-third of the area of Section 1 and one-fourth of the area of Section 2 is flat land, balance undulating pastoral land watered by a few small streams; access by formed road to within two miles of boundary; about seven miles from Taheke Post-office. Section 3: Altitude 600 ft. to 1,200 ft.; all heavy bush; slightly broken land; pastoral; well watered; formed road within two miles of boundary; about seven miles from Taheke Post-office. Section 4: Altitude 600 ft.; heavy bush; undulating pastoral land, well watered; access by formed road two and a half miles from boundary; about eight miles from Taheke. Section 5: Altitude 600 ft.; 300 acres bush, balance open; about 150 acres level (100 acres river-flat), covered for the most part with rough grass, balance undulating; suited for either agricultural or pastoral purposes; well watered; access by formed road within three miles of boundary, and by bullock-road from Kaikohe; eight miles and a half from Taheke Post-office: this section contains about 300,000 ft. of green kauri timber: the land is weighted with £150, valuation for the timber. Section 7: Altitude 700 ft.; about 30 acres fern, balance bush; undulating pastoral land only; well watered; formed road within three miles and a half of boundary; about nine miles from Taheke. Section 10: Altitude 600 ft.; 300 acres heavy bush land, 75 acres of river-flat covered with fern and rough grass, balance undulating; suited for both agricultural and pastoral purposes; well watered; there is a formed road within four miles of the boundary; about ten miles from Taheke Post-office. Sections 11 and 13: Altitude 700 ft. to 1,500 ft.; all heavy bush except 75 acres of fern in Section 13; broken and undulating country; pastoral land only; well watered; formed road within four miles of boundary; about ten miles from Taheke; Section 13 is situated ten miles from Kaikohe.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through Raetihi Block,
Makotuku Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 27th January, 1902, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 6th December, 1901.

SCHEDULE.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated. Dated this 8th day of January, 1903.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Nelson Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 27th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE WALKER

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Nelson.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Street in the Town of Upper Tuakau Extension of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th January, 1903.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main street in the Town of Upper Tuakau Extension, Auckland Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft., as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.